Social Media Policy- In Print We Trust: Here’s why newspapers score over social media - Times of India May 17, 2022
- On-line Social Media Jobs That Pay $30 – $55 Per Hour Job Job - Leadsonline - Plano, Texas - EMS1.com May 17, 2022
- Social media platforms vowed to rein in extremism. Buffalo puts them to the test - CNN May 17, 2022
- Celebrity Social Media Round-Up for May 16, 2022 - LaineyGossip May 17, 2022
- Why Suns were forced to apologize to fans twice on social media for Game 7 loss vs. Mavericks - Sporting News May 17, 2022
- Social Media Company's Report Leads To Falls Twp. Arrest - LevittownNow.com May 17, 2022
- Social media platforms vowed to rein in extremism. Buffalo puts them to the test – KION546 - KION May 16, 2022
- Locked Out: How a Social Media Customer Service Gap Is Costing Users - NBC 6 South Florida May 16, 2022
- Social media under scrutiny after teens flood downtown Chicago, 1 killed - FOX 32 Chicago May 16, 2022
- ‘Think Before You Link’: app launched to help social media users detect fake profiles - The Guardian May 16, 2022
- Kwantlen
- City seeking public input on Prince George's policing needs - Prince George Citizen May 16, 2022
- City seeks public feedback in review of RCMP - CKPGToday.ca May 16, 2022
- Vernon newspaper golden at B.C. awards gala - Vernon Morning Star May 16, 2022
- Garden club returns to in-person events - Delta Optimist May 15, 2022
- All ethnicities in Richmond need to tackle racism - Richmond News May 14, 2022
- KPU vice president of students running for Vancouver School Board trustee - The Runner May 14, 2022
- MMA Mangat prepares for Singapore bout against world champion – Williams Lake Tribune - Williams Lake Tribune May 12, 2022
- New funding sprouts more growth for BC seeds - Greenhouse Canada May 10, 2022
- UBC
- T-Birds dominate Firebirds to advance at NAIA Baseball National Championship Opening Round - University of British Columbia Athletics - UBC Thunderbirds May 17, 2022
- Save Old Growth protester superglues hands to UBC library doors - Vancouver Is Awesome May 17, 2022
- Advocates criticize insufficient support for students in 2022 federal budget - Ubyssey Online May 16, 2022
- Health and Justice Alliance – 'Working together for families' - Doctors of BC May 16, 2022
- AMS Food Bank saw a 600-visit spike between February and March - Ubyssey Online May 16, 2022
- UBC experts on International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia - UBC News May 16, 2022
- UBC In The News - UBC News May 16, 2022
- Computed tomography-urography with CMP can exclude bladder cancer: BMC Urology - Medical Dialogues May 16, 2022
- Business Education
- Letter: Ditch social mobility for schools that nurture talent - Financial Times May 17, 2022
- Vision for new $33.8 million Armadale TAFE campus taking shape - Media Statements May 17, 2022
- Breaking News May 17 LIVE: Section 144 imposed in MP's Neemuch after dispute between two parties - Jagran English May 17, 2022
- Taliban promise 'good news' on girls' education - Macau Business May 17, 2022
- Leaders learn tough lessons about resilience - Financial Times May 17, 2022
- Cindy Arnold wins regional Administrator of the Year - The Reflector May 16, 2022
- Ivey Business School welcomes first group of Ukrainian students fleeing war to London Ont. - Global News May 16, 2022
- FirstFT: China tech stocks improve while economic activity plummets - Financial Times May 16, 2022
Tag Archives: language
You complete the world.
It seems staggering that the brand new mayor of NYC, Eric Adams, could use the words “low skilled workers” to describe anyone who works in his city. I could walk for hours through Manhattan before seeing *anyone* whose work I … Continue reading
The root of beauty …
… is boldness, wrote Pasternak. “That is what’s brought us to one another.” Apropos: After Wolfgang Pauli had given a colloquium on some ideas related to particle physics, Pauli said to Neils Bohr: “You will probably think that what I … Continue reading
Abandoning One’s Mother Tongue
I had not thought this possible. A very poignant story via the great Language Log.
Real Words
One of the best pure writers I have ever seen was a psychology student at Kwantlen Polytechnic University named Emily (she gave me permission to use her first name). She could amalgamate and compress numerous, complex source articles into a … Continue reading
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
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
“Epic translation success”
Read more at the always alert, amusing, and erudite Language Log.
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On Poetry
My friend Jonathan Mayhew has been on a tear of late, publishing a series of manifestos on poetry in his wonderful blog, Stupid Motivational Tricks. Some snippets (but read the whole thing): Manifesto (1) Nobody knows what poetry is for. … Continue reading
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