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Category Archives: Seen in the wild – SITW
SITW: calve muscles
In an exercise manual that I am editing, the author refers to “calve muscles”, which would be nowhere near your calves (plural of calf). I personally have not “calved” in almost 15 years and plan not to do it again … Continue reading
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SITW: Favourite exaggeration of the week
From a document discussing whether or not to use life-sustaining treatments. ” It is well established that if a treatment has no chance of achieving its intended benefit (e.g., performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a body whose head has been severed … Continue reading
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Mixing up similar words
When editing or proofreading a document, unfortunately, it is far too easy to miss incidents of similar words getting mixed up. Emphatically, empathically and empathetically seem so similar when reading silently that I totally missed the errors the first couple … Continue reading
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SITW: Learning to text
Someone put the following on Facebook and as a parent who’s a pathetic texter I had to check it out. I linked to one I thought was pretty funny, but check out the rest of the site. http://whenparentstext.com/post/1986966219/21st-century-parenting
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SITW: An interesting editing combo
Editors and Writers have broad skill sets and interests and come from hugely varied backgrounds. Continue reading
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SITW: Can you see the problem?
Proper hyphenation makes a huge difference in meaning sometimes. Continue reading
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SITW: Hungry?
“Tourist menus in Iceland provide full meals of high standard for a basic price of $18. Children under 12 are 50% off.” A classic editing/proofreading problem of trying to shorten up a sentence to be more punchy, or just to … Continue reading
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SITW Wednesday
SITW: International organisms Continue reading
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Here I go AGAIN!
Hodge Podge Mondays, SITW Wednesdays, Education Fridays Continue reading
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Hyphenation: thirty odd people
“Is anal retentive hyphenated?”
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