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25.01.2022 As editors, we were delighted to finally see the public Beta version of the Australian Government Style Manual go live for public comment. While previous versions have been in print, this one is digital and covers essentials like referencing online content and websites, which was missing in the last print edition, published way back in 2002. The style manual has long been an essential reference guide for Australian editors, writers and publishers, used far beyond government departments. Take a look at the user friendly and easily navigable Beta version, which currently allows for comment and feedback on every page. https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/
21.01.2022 If you are writing a journalism article or communicating about research, often the experts you interview want you to check back the exact quotes. There may be good reason to check the factual accuracy of your information with the person, but often scientist try to rephrase their best quotes to sound more academic or learned. Instead of communicating simply and conversationally, they change the wording to something obscure or puzzling. Explaining why she would not check back q...uotes, award-winning American science journalist Sharon Begley said: Generally people try to change their quotes because the quote made them sound like are you sitting down? a human being as opposed to someone writing in a scientific journal. So that’s not going to happen. Sadly this great journalist has just died, but read this obituary and take inspiration from a superb writer. https://www.statnews.com//sharon-begley-path-breaking-sci/ See more
20.01.2022 The American Merriam-Webster dictionary added 520 new words in January 2021 which shows just how fecund English is and something about the great forces currently at work in the world. Many of the new words were spawned by the pandemic. Some of these were directly related to it, such as wet market and long hauler (someone suffering long-term effects from the disease). Others were caused by the surge in interest in online communication the pandemic brought about, such as cancel culture, a very modern form of ostracism. We sought comfort in a very stressful year, hence words like hygge, a cozy quality that makes a person feel content and comfortable. https://tinyurl.com/y5vk9kzt
16.01.2022 Waiting eagerly for all 768 pages of my copy of A Promised Land, the first of two volumes of memoir by Barack Obama. What a pleasure this man is, both in terms of his benign, empathetic and nuanced politics - compared to the autocratic ravings of Donald Trump - and the vibrant beauty of his language. https://tinyurl.com/y2bx3ymh
14.01.2022 Are you a defender of the English language or a troublesome pedant? Sue Butler, former editor of the Macquarie Dictionary of Australian English, looks at when we should come out fighting against a contemporary usage or accept that we are simply dealing with a matter of choice or an acceptable change. Pick your language battles wisely and not self-righteously, is her message.
04.01.2022 If you're going to write a book that attempts to smear the reputation of someone like Joe Biden, it is not a good look to make a basic apostrophe error in the title. Not classy. But then Donald Trump's son is a member of what has to be one of the most shameless families in all history, so what's a little misplaced dot!
