The next time someone posts something to LJ or Facebook, or e-mails you something, and it's a thing that you thought was awesome when you first saw it, six months, or a year, or two years ago, rather than saying something like "Oh, yeah, that. I thought it was funny when I first saw it. It's old now,"* consider the following ( Read more... )

Part of an ongoing series of musings about language and oppression, and bias-free* language (or, as I prefer, affirmative language or language of respect).

Cross posted at This Crazy Industry. Feel free to comment here or there. This version has additional linky goodness ( Read more... )

Dear allegedly literate, graduate-school-attending bloggers,

There's this little mark that looks like an inverted comma. It floats above the line, like this ', and is usually found in between letters. It's called the apostrophe. Some of us paid attention in grade-school, when our teachers prepared carefully hand-lettered flip charts outlining its ( Read more... )

I've been rather neglecting TCI since I left the Comma Mines. Freelancing took up a lot of time, as has my personal life, then I came to the Textbook Mills, and I've been leery of posting work-related stuff, because they're way more corporate here than at the Comma Mines. I've also been kind of despondent about the state of the industry, my own ( Read more... )