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- Social Media Policy
- Social media spreads both awareness and misinformation about allergies and asthma - News-Medical November 7, 2025
- What we learned from the Chicago Bears, including Rome Odunze responding to his dad’s social media posts - Chicago Tribune November 6, 2025
- Luke Fickell returning as Wisconsin coach in 2026 and social media has words - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel November 6, 2025
- US appeals court won't rehear challenge to California social media law - MLex November 6, 2025
- Calif. Judge Greenlights Bellwether Trial, Rejecting Social Media’s Defenses to Addiction Claims - Law.com November 6, 2025
- Addison Rae’s Ride From Social Media Star To Icon Is Almost Complete - UPROXX November 6, 2025
- Perplexity’s $400M Snapchat Gambit: AI Search Invades Social Media - WebProNews November 6, 2025
- Social Media Apps Must Face Jury After Section 230 Loss - Law360 November 6, 2025
Monthly Archives: November 2015
More on Clichés …
From professor Jonathan Mayhew: One of Orwell’s sillier pieces of writing advice is “Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.” Orwell advises “scrapping of every word or idiom which … Continue reading
Clichés Used in Journalism
The Washington Post compiles a helpful list; it’s up to 200. I am guilty of using the following in speaking (and the first one listed here in writing, too – alas): Any “not-un” formulation (as in “not unsurprising that you’d … Continue reading
Writing and editing for the computer screen
Lawyer and language genius Bryan Garner over at LawProse.org spells out, in typically lucid fashion, how to compose documents when you know they will be read on a computer screen rather than on paper. 1.Summarize. It’s important to learn the … Continue reading
No Word
A friend in the media emailed me this morning: “Everyone keeps talking about hostages having been taken in Paris. Doesn’t the word ‘hostage’ imply a demand on the part of the terrorists? They made no demands; they intended all along … Continue reading
Ricotta / Ree-goat
In Fairport, New York, where I grew up, there were lots of Italian American families, and I had many Italian American friends (still do). I married an Italian American from Liverpool, New York, and have a son from this marriage … Continue reading
“Sedulous aping”
“Memory” – or memoria – is one of the five canons of classical rhetoric. Write Brett and Kate McKay in their excellent blog “The Art of Manliness”: Anciently, almost all rhetorical communication was done orally in the public forum. Ancient … Continue reading
“Epic translation success”
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