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Stop saying ‘the global race’
Stop it. Stop saying “the global race”. It sounds like a round-the-world yachting competition. It is stupid, implying a zero-sum situation in which if China gets better we have to get worse. And it’s boring. You’ve used it a million times. Stop saying “hard-working people”, or, God forbid, “hard-working families”. It is cruel and exclusionary […]
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Pit your wits against David Marsh’s fiendish language quiz
Test your knowledge of the famously tricksy English language (and some classic Guardian howlers) with these posers set by our style guru, David Marsh David Marsh Media: Mind your language | theguardian.com http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/competition/2013/nov/01/language-errors-quiz-david-marsh
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A Note to Readers
The stylebook revision gave us an opportunity to take aim at some perennial usage problems, nagging missteps that are staples of After Deadline. We’ve added a handful of new warnings in hopes of cutting down on these repeat offenses. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/new-warnings-for-old-problems/
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Bibliotherapy: Textual healing (The Economist 12th Oct 2013)
Book balm, also known as bibliotherapy
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The Latest Style
On Monday we introduced a number of revisions and updates to the stylebook. After Deadline will highlight some of those changes over the next few weeks. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/29/the-latest-style/
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New publication: Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics. Ed. by Kecskes, Istvan & Romero-Trillo, Jesús
Mouton de Gruyter 2013. Click this link for Table of Contents and other details