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Piling On: National Grammar Day

Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 1:40 PM by David Carlson
I'm beginning to feel that I exist solely to provide links to Language Log posts. Nevertheless, see a recent Language Log post in response to John MacIntyre's cleverly titled That Which We Dispute , and MacIntyre's follow up The Day After . Read More...
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Beware the Search-and-Replace

Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 10:20 AM by David Carlson
Related to recent amusement on the Cupertino effect ( spell-check mishaps ), Language Log has some great examples of " incorrections " caused by well-meaning bulk changes gone awry. Read More...
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Spell Checker Fun

Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:44 PM by David Carlson
The other day I happened to notice an odd sentence in a Seattle P-I article, where "misplace" seemed to be substituted for "My Space." I noted it to some colleagues, including Mike Pope , and he did a blog post on it. This, in turn, got picked up on Language Read More...
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Apostrophe-Ess

Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 10:28 AM by David Carlson
OK, I can't resist blogging this one. In The Legislative Apostrophe , Nancy Friedman relates a current controversy about whether or not the possessive of Arkansas should be Arkansas' or Arkansas's. A state rep is all fired up about the "sibilant 's' that Read More...
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Consistency Matters

Posted Friday, February 24, 2006 4:21 PM by David Carlson
Virtually everyone involved with documentation believes that consistency is a good thing. A recent article in the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication entitled "Evaluating the Effect of Iconic Linkage on the Usability of Software User Guides" Read More...
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