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English grammar, word usages, and related topics.
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Somewhat OT: Cuneiform help
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My son is in need of an image (a drawing will do) of an inscription (any inscription or even an example text) in Akkadian cuneiform that has a reference to Sargon I, and I've been unable to turn one up on the web. (I see several books that might well have such a thing, but we're going out of town in the morning, so I won't be able to ask... more »
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Punctuating abbreviations that are becoming de facto words
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I have just been proofing an order form for books and related materials. The term "eg." was used with that solitary full stop. Some say that it needs two as in "e.g." while others argue that it can do its job with none: "eg". The unpunctuated "eg" looks cleaner and I don't think there is any ambiguity, so what I'm asking is: do people feel that the expression... more »
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Mark Twain on Henry James
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Of a much praised book by Henry James: -- Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up. [quoted without source in _Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain_, Alex Ayres-editor] When I looked further into this, I see that about half of the Google hits associate this line with Jane Austen, whose books Mark Twain also... more »
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Copy editors
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Ah, they don't make copy editors the way they used to. Here is an answer to what I sent to a writer at a local newspaper. I should note that previous errors I have pointed out to other news writers have also been blamed on their copy editors, after the writers had left. ============ Thanks for writing in. Unfortunately, I believe, a copy editor got to it... more »
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