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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
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Red Pencils Ready?
For this week’s roundup of grammar, style and other editing missteps, I turn once again to the popular After Deadline Quiz. Try to identify at least one problem in each of the passages. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/red-pencils-ready-9/
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More Ugly Disagreements
It’s been barely a month since my last litany of subject-verb agreement errors, but the file is overflowing once again. The topic is tedious, the errors exasperating. Readers notice and find it hard to understand why we make so many rather rudimentary mistakes. A good question. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/more-ugly-disagreements/
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Close but Not Quite
It’s commendable to add nuance or texture to our prose with a word that’s slightly out of the ordinary. Just be sure the word you pick is the right one, used the right way. It’s not enough to be in the general vicinity. And a misstep is all the more glaring if the word is […]
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Lady Thatcher and Tony Blair used ‘hubristic language’, research finds
A new study has found that British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and the late Lady Thatcher used hubristic language during their respective periods in office.