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Comment on Save our language from the Queen’s English Society by 007 parachutes into pointless language struggle

007 parachutes into pointless language struggle — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:29:49 +0000

[...] spit it out!) and that “proper English is disappearing”, Moore joins the ludicrous Queens English Society in pining for a very narrow, personal ideal of what language should [...]

Comment on Contact us by Issue 3 of the Plain Text client newsletter

Issue 3 of the Plain Text client newsletter — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:56:11 +0000

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Comment on Save our language from the Queen’s English Society by The Queen’s English Society deplores your impurities « Sentence first

The Queen’s English Society deplores your impurities « Sentence first — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:58:33 +0000

[...] Unsurprisingly, the QES’s claim to greater authority has been received less than enthusiastically. As well as the posts by Linguism and Macmillan Dictionary to which I linked above, John E. McIntyre has been blogging up a storm about it, imagining the absurdity of the academy’s meeting, showing how “language goes where it will and is what its users make of it”, and wondering about the “brittle veneer” of moral superiority that traditionally accompanies language snobbery. Elsewhere, Inky Fool takes the Academy to task over their inaugural press release, and Plain Text wants to save English from the QES. [...]

Comment on Contact us by The latest Plain Text client newsletter

The latest Plain Text client newsletter — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:13:20 +0000

Comment on Issue 1, September 2001 by Issue 2, December 2001

Issue 2, December 2001 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:54:25 +0000

[...] the last issue we used press releases from the fictional company Prolix to look at the perils of technology [...]

Comment on Training by Issue 3, May 2002

Issue 3, May 2002 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:53:19 +0000

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Comment on Issue 3, May 2002 by Issue 4, September 2002

Issue 4, September 2002 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:52:04 +0000

[...] the last issue we took a look at ‘Case Study Carnage’ to see what happens when a useful business story [...]

Comment on L – LETTERS by Issue 6, March 2003

Issue 6, March 2003 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:48:37 +0000

[...] This time, it’s the turn of the humble promotional letter or email, about which we have a few basic things to say in the A-Z of Plain Text. [...]

Comment on Issue 3, May 2002 by Issue 7, May 2003

Issue 7, May 2003 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:47:19 +0000

[...] written about six different types of written business communication: press releases, presentations, case studies, brochures, web writing and letters and emails. [...]

Comment on Issue 9, November 2003 by Nouns as verbs – not all bad

Nouns as verbs – not all bad — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:32:47 +0000

[...] even for an unreliable British train carriage. A while back we ranted about software being ‘architected.’ But nouns turning into verbs (verbifying, perhaps? Maybe not) is just part of linguistic [...]