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Words to good effect. Another “container” page, this time for our polls. I’ll be adding links here to any “poll posts” so that you can dip into and respond to them without having to search through the archives. Love your job and tweet about it? Online newspapers: to pay or not to pay. Fees: to raise or not to raise? Take our poll: should new clients test your skills or hire you on trust? Fees: to publish or not to publish? Listen to music while you work? Take our poll and let us know! Feed for this Entry.
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The Internet. The end of English as we know it? (2) - Words to good effect at Words to good effect
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Words to good effect. The Internet. The end of English as we know it? Did you watch the “English 3.0” video. Examining the question: is the Internet having a detrimental effect on English and on “standards”? Here are my thoughts on the question. Social media = online conversation. Texts, tweets and post-cards. In her “ Txting is for people who can’t spell, write? 8221; post for The Guardian newspaper’s Mind Your Language. 8220;Children love language, writing and wordplay”. According to Fiona McPherson, t...
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In Vogue: shades of grey, parenting and fitness for busy people - Words to good effect at Words to good effect
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Words to good effect. In Vogue: shades of grey, parenting and fitness for busy people. Fashion may have changed since 1989 (those shoulders! And Dioxins and their effects on human health. Context, context, context. The fitness article also had a couple of language/technology nuggets in the description of one trainer’s relationship with his clients: I gradually become as indispensable as a. My italics). Remember when word processing was all that most of did on our computers (those of us who had a comp...
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Writing Archives - Words to good effect at Words to good effect
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Words to good effect. Archive for the 'Writing' Category. The Internet. The end of English as we know it? Did you watch the “English 3.0” video examining the question: is the Internet having a detrimental effect on English and on “standards”? Here are my thoughts on the question. Social media = online conversation Much of the “bad writing” we see online is really just a form of conversation. People writing on Facebook, Twitter and other social sites are […]. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).
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The Internet. The end of English as we know it? - Words to good effect at Words to good effect
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Words to good effect. The Internet. The end of English as we know it? Take a look and let us know what you think: has the Internet been good or bad for English? Do “ROFL”, “C U L8R”, “amazeballs” (no doubt out of fashion by now) and all the rest mean that the language is in terminal decline? Other posts you might like:. Apostrophes: everything you ever wanted to know, just about. Nouning and verbing: an ask too far? But please, not on LinkedIn. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Best regard...
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Taking care of dem bones - Words to good effect at Words to good effect
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Words to good effect. Taking care of dem bones. My last post was triggered by my husband Vito being diagnosed with Deep Vein Thrombosis. Since then (last Friday, to be exact), my lovely Mum has fallen and fractured the neck of her femur. She’s had an operation and is now going through painful physiotherapy and rehabilitation. Osteoporosis can also lead to tooth loss. An article by Carole Palmer. A professor at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, points out that:. So along with all our feet paddli...
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Words to good effect. Get off your butt. I’ve just read a pretty scary article. In The Independent newspaper which says that people who spend many hours of the day seated (at their desks or on the couch watching TV) are increasing their risks of ill health (and early death) — regardless of exercise at other times. This quote sums it up:. So all those power-walks and gym classes aren’t helping, if you spend the time in between totally sedentary (guess who’s guilty of that). Buy a height-adjustable desk.
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Life and work and everything else Archives - Words to good effect at Words to good effect
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Words to good effect. Archive for the 'Life and work and everything else' Category. EU referendum: why I want to remain. First of all, apologies for posting something political, especially after an absence of more than a year (which I’ll explain in a later post). But I very much want the UK to stay in Europe, and have only recently realised just how bereft I’d feel if we left. I can’t get out on the streets to campaign in […]. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Facebook (O...
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Polish: the world's most loved – and Scotland's first "other" – language - Words to good effect at Words to good effect
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Words to good effect. Polish: the world’s most loved and Scotland’s first “other” language. The French translators’ organisation (the Société française des traducteurs, or SFT) recently asked me to write an article about the Scots language, the inspiration being Scotland’s independence referendum on 18 September 2014. The article beautifully translated by Géraldine Chantegrel. Will be published in the December 2014 issue of. Polish: the world’s most loved language. While I don’t for one second doub...
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