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When Spell-Check Can’t Help
Our latest roundup of homophone problems includes a number of very familiar entries. Sharp-eyed readers catch them; we should, too. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/27/when-spell-check-cant-help-20/
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Nous twitterons: The French language is getting battered by social media. (The Economist)
Aug 10th 2013 | PARIS | AURELIE FILIPPETTI, the French minister for culture, had to retract a tweet this week after making a glaring spelling mistake. As she is the official guardian of the French language, this was more than a bit embarrassing. Twitter’s spontaneity invites carelessness; and the minister duly blamed a sloppy aide. But for linguistic […]
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Parallel Problems
The Times’s stylebook entry on the either/or construction seems simple. But we stumble often. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/parallel-problems-3/