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Marginalia: Wordsmithery by Camden Luxford
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24.01.2022 A History of #Punctuation for the Internet Age http://ow.ly/4ixj30il0cg (from the archives of The New Yorker
23.01.2022 10 'grammar rules' it's OK to break (sometimes) http://ow.ly/tQqE30irhwa
22.01.2022 The many adventures of English, or, What's a little word theft among friends?
22.01.2022 I like these pencils!
20.01.2022 Things are galloping along at Marginalia HQ: Workstation, check. Pretty view, check. Website, so close! *bounces up and down*
18.01.2022 The joy of exclamation marks! http://ow.ly/viPz30iriyJ #punctuation
15.01.2022 'Swole' - for jacked - is on the cusp of inclusion in the Merriam-Webster. Descriptivism rules the day! http://ow.ly/ZI1m30igZFj
15.01.2022 10 of the Greatest Essays on Writing Ever Written: by Orwell, Sontag, Eliot and others http://ow.ly/RPUI30igZVm
14.01.2022 8 Punctuation Marks that Didn't Make the Grade "The road from the scrolls of the library of Alexandria to today’s books, blog entries, and tweets is littered with the corpses of fallen marks of #punctuation." http://ow.ly/E8Wh30iNtMf
13.01.2022 Dialect is fascinating How Americans preserved British English... sort of http://ow.ly/auL930iiqBU
13.01.2022 Writing abstracts might seem like an afterthought (or a chore), but they're a vital tool for getting eyes on your #acwri. LSE Impact Blog spells out how to nail the abstract http://ow.ly/H2vT30iNt2E #phdadvice #phdchat #GetYourManuscriptOut
12.01.2022 In the Land of #Punctuation, gorgeously illustrated, grimly violent, whimsical http://ow.ly/Tvg330irjJs via Brain Pickings
11.01.2022 An interesting read on the coinage of words and why Dickens and Shakespeare may not have been the inventors we believe them to be http://ow.ly/aWWh30iNtvn via Macquarie Dictionary
11.01.2022 #English: A story of invasions, thefts, sloth, caprice, mistakes, pride and the inexorable juggernaut of change http://ow.ly/hwwL30ikZZq
11.01.2022 The Secret History of the Hashtag, Slash, and Interrobang by Liz Stinson http://ow.ly/loEO30iiq1N #punctuation
11.01.2022 'The Significance of Semantics' - fascinating and info-packed article on person-first vs identity-first language from the perspective of Autistic writer and advocate, Lydia X. Z. Brown http://ow.ly/jdW830iipFU
10.01.2022 "The core of Canadian #English is a pervasive ambivalence." http://ow.ly/mhkO30il0WG Canuck English and I should get along just fine, then \_()_/
10.01.2022 A good news story for your Wednesday: Five #libraries around the world that are open despite the odds http://ow.ly/irG730iNsx1
10.01.2022 'It's that easy, and that hard.' Neil Gaiman is one of the hardest working artists in contemporary fiction, so I'm turning to his no-nonsense advice as I (softly!) relaunch Marginalia. Watch this space for writing tips, quotes and book reviews. Business website coming next week for all your editing and proofreading needs!
09.01.2022 Had to grab a copy of this dictionary after watching a panel featuring dictionary contributors Janey Walanyku Lunjabirni Dixon, Eleanor Dixon and Felicity Meakins. Much to reflect on about how our languageour very grammarconstrains our approaches to land, country, climate. Learn more about Australian language preservation here: https://aiatsis.gov.au/aboriginal-studies-pr//dictionaries... #dictionary #language #indigenous #indigenouslanguages
09.01.2022 The Comma from Which My Heart Hangs http://ow.ly/lqwo30iiqQk (#punctuation communicates volumes)
09.01.2022 Eight #words that changed the way we think http://ow.ly/70zp30irdj5
09.01.2022 This sounds like a wonderful way to get a fresh perspective on a manuscript you know intimatelymaking you a better self-editor.
06.01.2022 "MORNINGS: If in fine fettle, write." And other creative commandments from Henry Miller, via Brain Pickings http://ow.ly/3GZT30il1GM
06.01.2022 Linguists Discover Previously Unidentified Language In Malaysia: "There are all these amazing different ways of being...a human that speaks language, that we're basically missing right now." http://ow.ly/Iwes30igZt5
06.01.2022 "Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen" by famed New Yorker proofreader Mary Norris is a warm and witty celebration of words, and of a life lived among them. Read the full review at the Marginalia blog http://ow.ly/B6yB30iso0X
05.01.2022 It's here! The Marginalia website is live at www.marginalia.com.au. It would be a *huge* help if you could fill in a two-minute survey on your impressions of the website after viewing, over at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8HQBNQR Thank you!
05.01.2022 HT to Twitter grammarians @The_YUNiversity, who shared this fab graphic. Varying sentence lengths is one of the simplest, most effective ways to make your writing shine.
05.01.2022 .annkroeker 's fantastic tips for self-editing all kinds of writing http://ow.ly/EWVl30iNsQV #amwriting #acwri #amediting
04.01.2022 30 tips for successful academic research and writing from sociologist Deborah Lupton http://ow.ly/JVN230irj6r #acwri #academictwitter
03.01.2022 Get your research out to a wider audience -- LSE's Prof. Patrick Dunleavy on blogging for academics.
02.01.2022 Writing a PhD in your second language: 7 reasons you’re doing great and 5 ways to do even better http://ow.ly/ZfYX30ird3N #acwri #academictwitter #esl
01.01.2022 "Exceptionally bloggy and aggressively casual and implicitly ironic": Bbecause" as preposition http://ow.ly/3c6w30il1sD from the archives of The Atlantic
