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RT @: Who is that?" may be written as "Who dat?" if the person in question is talking about beating dem Saints.
2:57 PM Dec 1st
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Twitter's now asking "What's happening?" instead of "What are you doing?" Why do I feel like Peter Gibbons in "Office Space"?
12:39 PM Nov 19th
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@ @ No, the sentence read, "... letters were mailed alerting them of the changes ..." (ugh, passive).
11:56 AM Nov 19th
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I prefer "alert to" rather than "alert of." Fellow editors, does "alert of" bother you?
11:28 AM Nov 19th
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@ Spaces are a minimal option to separate phone numbers -- it depends on how closely you wish to follow @.
8:54 AM Nov 8th
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Yeah, periods look cool, but @ prefers hyphens between numerical groups in telephone numbers.
6:08 PM Nov 3rd
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Seeing “at lower cost” in the singular (and without "a") as if “cost” is an irregular noun. Ex: "reach consumer at lower cost." Jargon?
1:59 PM Oct 30th
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Hyphenate up-front as an adjective and keep it two words as a noun; hasn't yet gotten on board with upfront as one word.
1:36 PM Oct 28th
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Trimming fat from a white paper: "the following," "in general," "in particular," "so-called," "which in turn," "another aspect is the fact."
11:40 AM Oct 23rd
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Use commas to separate a series of adjectives equal in rank. Would "and" work without changing the meaning? Then the adjectives are equal.
7:57 AM Oct 14th
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@ No, I did. And I still have an inserted comment to you from the original document I took this from that reads, "Sorry Rob."
12:37 PM Oct 6th
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RT @ calls for e-mail to be hyphenated. And the plural of e-mail is e-mails, not e-mail.
12:09 PM Oct 6th
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If a bulleted item is long and expresses a complete thought, use a period after each item. If it reads like a shopping list, no periods.
11:45 AM Oct 6th
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New blog post: Do people go "on" to the iPhone App Store or "into" it?
10:04 AM Sep 29th
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Happy National Punctuation Day! ( My favorite mark? The dash. The most misused? The apostrophe.
5:46 AM Sep 24th
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Railing against the Associated Press' arbitrary upstyle/downstyle rules in my blog:
10:49 AM Sep 15th
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Once again: You do not have to capitalize the individual words in a defined acronym just because it's an acronym. Lowercase common nouns.
8:21 AM Sep 10th
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Cap only the Fourier in fast Fourier transform (FFT). What's an FFT? Wiki:
12:27 PM Sep 3rd
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Employer: Boldface, all caps causes "disharmony in the workplace":
7:18 PM Aug 31st
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Full disclosure: I can't stand the abbreviations for software (as SW or S/W) or hardware (HW or H/W). Must. Not. Abbreviate.
11:00 AM Aug 31st
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