joeclark + english   18

Shitty writing by university students explained
‘Punctuation… is governed by a fairly complicated series of rules and conventions, learned for the most part not in the classroom but by encountering and subliminally absorbing them again and again…. You need to read a lot of edited and published prose’
English  copy-editing  copyediting  clunk  benyagoda  writing 
january 2011 by joeclark
Flickr: "Quotation Mark" Abuse
"Signs" that abuse "Quotation Marks." (As by using neutral ones?)
type  typography  English  orthography  quotes  spelling  flickr 
january 2006 by joeclark
The Eggcorn Database
Malapropisms (copyright/copywritten, for example)
eggcorn  linguistics  English 
january 2006 by joeclark
Canadian English should be used at Toronto City hall, Moscoe bleats
This presupposes an accurate and functional MS Office Canadian dictionary that isn’t simply a duplication of the U.K. English dictionary
English  CanadianEnglish  linguistics  msoffice  lexicography 
december 2005 by joeclark
‘Beg the Question’
‘To beg the question does not mean to raise the question’
begthequestion  english  linguistics 
november 2005 by joeclark

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