Caution: this post contains adjectives that are non traditional in a business writing context. To rephrase that, there is some mild moderate swearing. Oh, and I think I’ve used my entire week’s quota of ellipses. You see these things all the time. You know, social media clickbait: 17 Words You Should Never Use, 7 Mistakes [...]
Sony Z3 compact software update messes with the time. A UX fail, or just my problem?
Definition: Make a light, clear ringing sound; tinkle It was Christmas Eve and Santa was grumpy. People carried on about him going down chimneys as though they didn't know he was claustrophobic. When he'd told Mrs Claus, she told him to stop complaining and get into the Christmas spirit. So he did. Lots of different Christmas spirits. Very [...]
I’ll be speaking at the next Brisbane Content Strategy Group meet-up on May 12, between 5.00 and 6.30pm, about how to write and structure questions, help text and error messages...
A word constructed nearly entirely from affixes, all from Latin: Pre (meaning 'before'), ante (meaning 'before'), pen (meaning 'almost'), and ultimate (meaning 'final').
We quietly published our testimonial page the other day. Look at all these nice people saying nice things about our courses!
In August, I'll be talking about accessibility, and what you need to do for websites and documents to make them accessible at the Queensland Business Writers' Conference. Registrations for 2015 now open.
It's not 'don't talk about Blog Club'—it's the complete opposite: talk lots! Luckily, Minnie has been creating some excellent words of the day posts. But, I've been absent. I have a short contract at the moment, so have been a bit busy. But, there are some fun things on the horizon! Besides posts with more [...]
English is full of relics, throwbacks to old words or expressions, that often only remain in a single contemporary term or expression. Like 'teller' in 'bank teller'. Tell is an old word meaning 'to count', and we don't see it anywhere else...
Humans don’t really get numbers. Some isolated communities function without having numbers bigger than 4, which incidentally is about the highest number of ‘things’ we can reliably count with a glance. 1 thing. No worries. 2 things. Yep. Got it. 3 things. Indeed. At a glance, I’m all over this. 4 things. That’s 4 things, [...]
