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  1. Language Lounge

     Guys and... ?
    Mon Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2020
    If you've visited the world of online dating you may have noticed the disparities between the ways males and females present themselves, and the disparities between the ways that they seem to want to appear to each other.

  2. Word Count

     How to Work with Difficult Editors
    Wed Jan 22 00:00:00 EST 2020
    The world is filled with bad editors. Here's how to deal with them.

  3. Word Routes

     Pronouns Prevail for Word of Year and Decade
    Fri Jan 10 00:00:00 EST 2020
    Linguistically, it seems, the second decade of the 21st century was all about our selves. At its annual meeting the American Dialect Society selected (my) pronouns as its word of the year for 2019 and singular or nonbinary they as the word of the decade.

  4. Language Lounge

     Dubiously Distinguished
    Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2020
    We are now far beyond the day when a product might be distinguished from its competitors with descriptors such as mild, strong, or rich. Lately I'm noticing what is surely a very common trope in consumer marketing: the enhancement of an adjectival descriptor for a product by introducing it with an adverbial.

  5. Word Count

     Four Ways to Build Mental Toughness for Writing
    Mon Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2019
    Tough writers are made — not born. Here are four ways to build the mental fortitude that it takes to be a writer.

  6. Candlepower

     Brand Names of the Year for 2019
    Thu Dec 19 00:00:00 EST 2019
    Here's a look back at the brands that made the biggest impact — positive or negative — on technology, culture, and society.

  7. Evasive Maneuvers

     Self-Partnered to Poppycock
    Wed Dec 11 00:00:00 EST 2019
    Rejoice! There's a new candidate for Euphemism of the Year, Drivel of the Decade, and Malarkey of the Millennium.

  8. Dog Eared

     Inspiration to All
    Tue Dec 10 00:00:00 EST 2019
    The famed copy editor's personal memoir is a joy to read and an inspiration to anyone who has toyed with the idea, but not yet taken the plunge, of learning a second language.

  9. Language Lounge

     And Forget the He and She
    Mon Dec 02 00:00:00 EST 2019
    John Donne's poem The Undertaking, published in the early 17th century, suggests that forgetting the he and she would be "a braver thing than all the Worthies did." In a way, that is the same problem that's currently being considered in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

  10. Word Count

     Five Writing Lessons From Keith Richards
    Wed Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2019
    What surprised me the most about Keith Richard's autobiography, Life, were his sophisticated thoughts about writing. Here are five writing lessons you, too, can learn from a Rolling Stone.
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