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My Own Little World: The YES Prayer
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Saturday, 8 October 2011. With praise for all You are, Lord. And thanks for all You bless. Lord, grant this ten petitions. With your eternal Yes:. Please show me that You're there. When I can't see Your face. Send troubled souls my way. Their wounds I will erase;. Let me see with Your eyes. My mind with Your thoughts fill. But more than wisdom, give me. The strength to do Your will;. Bless me with abundance. Then put me to the test. Gladly will I give you. More than I possess;. Send me Your tranquility.
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My Own Little World: July 2013
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Monday, 1 July 2013. I declare today as "World Weird Day". How cool is that? Nope It's no holiday. But we can pay a little more attention to our individual weird-ity or weirdness (however you want it to be called) and Celebrate it! Now, I'll have here a bunch of weird quotes. Uhhh! No, the quotes aren't weird but they're a bunch of "Weird" quotes. That's clearer. I hope. I need to find another Weirdooooo to fall to. Uhhh, Life! Is a big word in a big world. 8220;Where's your will to be weird? 8220;There ...
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decorating before building | The Editing Engineer
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Helping engineers to write well. April 11, 2013. Imagine you are building a house. You’ve contacted a whole lot of suppliers, to bring you all the necessary building resources. And today, they’re all going to bring them so that you can actually start the building. Isn’t that convenient? The carpet guy has brought carpet already cut into a floor shape, even though you haven’t fully settled on the house’s layout yet. “Oh, it was easy! You see, every person who works on a document will try to make it pretty.
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this is (a bad) example | The Editing Engineer
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Helping engineers to write well. June 4, 2012. This is (a bad) example. Let’s talk about brackets. To start with, a clarification. To American readers, these. Are parentheses. And these. To British and Australasian readers, these. Are brackets. And these. I am Australian; I’m talking about the round ones. Brackets are something that are commonly done incorrectly. The capture of Alpha Centauri must be swift, efficient, (and where possible) bloodless. These are all incorrect. Why? The bowl of fruit include...
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it’s vs its | The Editing Engineer
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Helping engineers to write well. May 28, 2012. It’s vs its. It is astonishingly easy to get some words confused. This is one of the worst. Now, if you’re just wanting to know, very quickly, exactly which is which, then look no further:. 8220;it is” (as in “ it’s. Two months until my voyage to Mars”). 8220;something that belongs to it” (as in “the dog was very unhappy until I found its. Chew toy, and now everything’s okay”). It’s all a matter of nouns. Pronouns, on the other hand, are these:. 8211; my bike.
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May | 2012 | The Editing Engineer
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Helping engineers to write well. May 28, 2012. It’s vs its. It is astonishingly easy to get some words confused. This is one of the worst. Now, if you’re just wanting to know, very quickly, exactly which is which, then look no further:. 8220;it is” (as in “ it’s. Two months until my voyage to Mars”). 8220;something that belongs to it” (as in “the dog was very unhappy until I found its. Chew toy, and now everything’s okay”). It’s all a matter of nouns. Pronouns, on the other hand, are these:. 8211; my bike.
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repeating yourself | The Editing Engineer
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Helping engineers to write well. July 13, 2012. I am currently editing a rather long document, giving technical requirements for installing a whole bunch of stuff. Lots. The thing is, the author clearly hadn’t planned out what he was going to say beforehand. He just sat down, started writing, and wrote down requirements as they occurred to him. Which means you get something like this:. 1) The fridge must be on the right-hand-side of the kitchen, with enough room to open the door fully. Look at all the th...
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looooooong sentences… | The Editing Engineer
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Helping engineers to write well. May 25, 2012. I recently edited a job description, for someone advertising for a new employee. The first line looked something like this:. The Communications Manager will:. That was all ONE SENTENCE. I could see what he was going for: he wanted to have one sentence per dot point. Unfortunately, he was so committed to having one sentence per dot point that every sentence had morphed into this huge behemoth full of commas, and he hadn’t even noticed. Laquo; Previous post.
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August | 2012 | The Editing Engineer
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Helping engineers to write well. August 24, 2012. Just a brief note…. Is a straight line. A straight line made up of 25 segments, each 10mm long. Is a 2-dimensional space. It is 25mm long, and 10mm wide (or vice versa). Is an area that corresponds to a 2-dimensional space that is 25mm long and 10mm wide. Or to a space that is 125mm long and 2mm wide. ARE NOT THE SAME THING. This is (a bad) example. Ana Mardoll's Ramblings. Blog at WordPress.com. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.
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