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Close but Not Quite
These aren’t the usual homophone missteps — bare for bear, or palate for palette. But in each case we seemed to have mixed up two vaguely similar words. Working too fast? Dictionary shelf too far away? After Deadline
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Interesting video on voice recording
http://sfist.com/2013/09/23/video_the_real_siri_no_really_this.php
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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin
New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin via Tumblr http://jesusromerotrillo.tumblr.com/post/61760795421
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Isn’t there a computer program for that? | Mind your language
Check the spelling, grammar, punctuation and facts. Then the subeditor’s real work starts Every time I go to a wedding or party, I seem to have the same conversation. Overbearing Git: “What do you do?” Me: “I’m a subeditor.” Overbearing Git: “Oh, so you’re basically a spellchecker?” Then I mumble something about there being a […]
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Bright Passages
Now, a brief respite from carping, and another small sampling of sparkling prose from recent editions. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/bright-passages-17/
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Learning to read in Madagascar
16 September 2013 , Source: IRIN St Augustin Marie Louise, 46, from the village of Namakia-Ankilibe, about one hour’s drive south of Toliara, in arid southwestern Madagascar, never saw the inside of a classroom as a child.