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Most nonfiction books meander around and belabor their central points. Most nonfiction writers aren’t particularly skilled at coherent and compelling structure or rhythm in prose and there’s only so much an editor can do. Quite different from fiction writing, good nonfiction requires a certain continuity of thought and mastery of distillation.
Instead of plowing through hundreds [...]

It bothers me when sites provide links to “sign up” and “login”. The former is a verb phrase, but the latter is a noun; it should be “log in” to mirror the form. An argument can be made for linking to “login” the noun, as in the “login [page]” but then you would also link [...]

The Quebec government has passed laws which forbid French speakers and immigrants to send their children to English-language schools; compel businesses with more than fifty employees to be run in French; and ban English commercial signs. So, if your ancestors were French you, too, must by government fiat speak French whatever your personal wishes may [...]

Send email in plain text – not “formatted” or HTML. Your font is hideous and your gratuitous spacing is offensive. Don’t even get me started on background images. Convey your message with punctuation, letters, words and sentences. If something is *really important* you can use asterisks, like that.
Keep it short and to the point – [...]

I want a better response to this question. It’s customary, in the United States at least, to answer with some variant of “good” regardless of how one actually feels or lives. I wonder if there is some other, more interesting and truthful answer that could lead to a valuable interaction.
I don’t want something just for [...]

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You know it when you see it. It used to be called “AOL speak” or “chat lingo” and now it’s recognized mostly from “the MySpace crowd” [...]

Usually when starting a new web site, a company will design the site for use in only one language. As companies grow, however, it is often prudent to internationalize the site and make it accessible in many languages. If the site is to become a large commercial success in countries around the world, this step [...]

Like most other students, I long accepted the excuses from academia regarding its high barrier to entry and flat out pretentious use of language. “The jargon of the field is necessary to be technically accurate” they would tell me. Proponents of the academy allude to some benevolent purpose behind the absolutely ridiculous babble [...]

People assured me that it was only “the MySpace crowd” or the teenage girls spouting off nonsense like “omg ur teh bst frd in wrdl!!11″. I believed them, telling myself that it’s just a phase that people will go through and grow out of. It’s just a series of shortcuts, right? They still know how [...]

A very common practice among people speaking the English language is the use of the phrase “different than”. I had never paid much attention to its use and was guilty myself of using it from time to time. Now that I am aware of its erroneous nature, I cringe when I hear people say it.
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