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Gael Spivak

Grammar Matters

août 25, 2020 by Gael Spivak | 8 commentaires sur Grammar Matters

Antecedents and gerunds. En dashes and ellipses. Gripping topics for editors, right? Well, it turns out they’re not gripping for all of us. As one of the admins for the Editors’ Association of Earth groups on Facebook, I read almost every post and comment (one group alone had 310 posts and 5,611 comments in a […]

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James Harbeck

Omitting Periods? It’s About Genres.

juillet 5, 2016 by James Harbeck | Un commentaire sur Omitting Periods? It’s About Genres.

“Period. Full Stop. Point. Whatever It’s Called, It’s Going Out of Style,” declared a New York Times headline. Noted linguist David Crystal had made some comments observing that the period is not requisite in text messages, and as such is used only “to show irony, syntactic snark, insincerity, even aggression,” as article author Dan Bilefsky […]

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Wilf Popoff

Wasted Words: Recasting Punctuation

juin 14, 2016 by Wilf Popoff | 3 commentaires sur Wasted Words: Recasting Punctuation

I recall Victor Borge’s celebrated skit where he reads a story aloud while sputtering rude noises as punctuation. Borge reasoned that if such detail was vital for a reader’s grasp it was likewise for a listener’s. The Great Dane died before Cyberia’s scribbling and texting mania laid siege to orthodox punctuation, so today his skit would bewilder […]

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Frances Peck

Perilous Punctuation: The Email Salutation

mai 31, 2016 by Frances Peck | 20 commentaires sur Perilous Punctuation: The Email Salutation

An old friend from Ottawa recently visited me in Vancouver. We hadn’t seen each other in years. “One thing I’ll never forget about you,” said Ann (who is not an editor), “is that you taught me the right way to begin an email. Every time I write ‘Hi comma So-and-So period,’ I think of you.” […]

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Dwain Richardson

English Editing in Quebec: All About Style

novembre 17, 2015 by Dwain Richardson | 9 commentaires sur English Editing in Quebec: All About Style

Whenever you do a concordance reading or translation, you certainly notice that the two or more languages you are working with show many stylistic differences. English and French are no strangers to this phenomenon. For instance, have you observed that French texts and translations are often longer than texts written in or translated into English? […]

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