50 Years of Language Insufficiency
I share thoughts on the genesis of A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, 50 (or more) years in the making. (Webcams take great selfies – subject notwithstanding. 🧐😉)
#reading #writing #reviewing #proofing #philosophy #language #books #publishing #lih #communication #clarity #hypothesis #selfie #author
Did you know you can style the text in your emails when sending out proofing galleries to your clients?
picu lets you use markdown to add things like headings, links, lists and more to your emails easily.
Starting with version 2.5.0, picu supports basic Markdown syntax in emails. Supported Markdown Elements Links To add a link to an email, enclose the link text in square brackets and then add the URL directly after this in parentheses (no space between them), eg. [Link text](https://picu.io) Example: This will be rendered like this: Emphasis You […]
Social media as a proof-reading platform.
For nearly 15 years, my draft yarn about my 2010 travels had a fairly obvious error in it.
I was flying from Mazar-i-Sharif to Herat, but when recounting the taxi trip to Mazar's airport, I said: "I can’t believe the airport was connected to Herat only by a dirt road."
Well, that and an aeroplane. But I meant to say "Mazar-i-Sharif" airport, not "Herat".
Proof-reading. It matters! 😳
👩🎨 You asked, we listened: Coming with picu 2.5.0, you will be able to format the texts or add links & lists to proofing emails using basic Markdown syntax.
Read more about it here:
🔗 https://log.picu.dev/markdown-in-picu-emails/
Did you know that you can extend your proofing workflow quite a bit using a little bit of code?
You find a long list of things you can do in our Developer Docs – and if you miss anything, please feel free to get in touch!
Available Filters & Snippets You can use the following snippets in your theme’s functions.php file or even better, create a custom plugin or using the Code Snippets plugin. (The latter two are the better options, as they won’t be overwritten by theme updates!) You can find all picu filters and how they work below. Also […]
Personal sites I can give a pass to, but corporate sites/newsletters must invest in checks by more than the author.
If not you will inevitably get bad grammar, strange phrasing, and illogical statements like the ones in this post I came across today at work.
It simply erodes any faith I may have had in the post and ultimately the organisation. If they spare so little thought and attention to stuff like this, how can I trust what they say or with more important things?
Nick Hubble
Philosophics
Sarah A
N-gated Hacker News
picu
Greg Hills
Laurent Jégou
Stephen Millard