We have created an album at our Facebook page with all the proof one might ever need that The World Needs More Proofreaders. The examples therein are very much of the funny-ouch variety.
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10/19/2011 0 Comments Recognition of Fun Words and PhrasesWrite and Polish offers you the nifty phrase of the day, found in this movie review at io9.com: "wonderful steampunkery and ... supernatural brouhaha!"
That's some mighty fine use of words. (Hey, it doesn't all have to be highfalutin and fancy!) 10/11/2011 0 Comments Why Language Has RulesFor a lot of people, it can be very easy to feel that the "rules" of grammar and punctuation are arbitrary and mostly there to confuse. This is an example of the fact that they perform actual jobs meant to clarify meaning.
Like any tools, however, it helps to know how and when and where to properly use them. 10/10/2011 0 Comments From the Peanut Gallery --Writing/language humor for a Monday:
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his English class one day. "In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative." A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right." 10/7/2011 0 Comments For Grammar Nerd EmergenciesBe still, my beating heart! An order shall be placed forthwith, that the Write-and-Polish-mobile (and briefcase, and pen wrangling thingie) will be stocked when faced with a grammar emergency in public places! If those within the reach of our keyboard have trouble with any (or several) of these grammatical situations, acquire a sheet, laminate it and use it as a place mat, that you may have the answers always at the ready. 10/5/2011 0 Comments Writing Tip: Writing NumbersA dear Write and Polish friend consulted us today as to the "rules" of numbers -- of writing them as words versus using the numerals. Our advice was:
The simplest guide is that numbers below 10 are written, and those 10 and above are in numerals. But there are many exceptions, for
Marketers and would-be Business Social Networkers: this article, Viral Content-Why We Share Some Things and Not Others, is a studious examination of what we already know but sometimes forget -- blatant advertising as status posts for your business will not generally be shared.
Giving people something they can use, or that makes them laugh, or gets them exercised in some way (but, hopefully, not at you!) is more likely to be shared, and put YOU, as the originator, in front of the valuable individuals who do not yet know you to friend you. 10/1/2011 0 Comments Article: The Price of TyposThis article offers an interesting set of observations that, surprisingly, doesn't really make moral judgments (though does quote some pragmatic/statistical ones) about the increasing incidence of errors in published work. Rather, they do provide, for the blogger, a greater window into who the author is. Enjoy!
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