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Journal of an Academic Copyeditor
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Oct 4
Perfect Symmetry: Using "Not Only ... But Also" Correctly with the Help of Pinker's Bracketing Technique
I n this post, we'll see examples of how to handle "not only ... but also" constructions correctly by using a simple bracketing technique...
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Apr 2
Who Was the Biologist Somerset Maugham Met in Calcutta?
Somerset Maugham visited India in the 1930s (he gives the year as 1936 in the essay that is the subject of this post, but I've read that...
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Sep 6, 2023
How Steven Pinker Sensitized Me To Figurative Language
On page 48 of The Sense of Style, Steven Pinker talks about how stale idioms and metaphors deaden thought: "When a reader is forced to...
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Aug 28, 2023
Meeting Yateendra Joshi
Yateendra Joshi is the doyen of Indian academic copyeditors. He and I are long-standing members of Copyediting-L, the email discussion...
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