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Tag Archives: SDAŠ
Language Note of the Week 28
How’s this for a non-informative (and real!) newspaper headline? “Billionaire investor was keen on investing, fraud trial told” No kidding. And avid dancers like to dance. Avoid such repetition in your writing. Admittedly, I have never received such a banal … Continue reading
ESSE 2014 KOSICE Conference
Dear Colleagues, The 1 May 2013 deadline for Seminars and Round Tables (proposals from prospective convenors) for ESSE 2014 KOSICE Conference is approaching fast. You are invited to submit proposals for seminars and round tables on topics related to our … Continue reading
Language Note of the Week 27
Some typographical niceties today: 1) Don’t use two apostrophes (‘’…’’) instead of quotation marks (“…”). 2) Make sure your quotations marks face in the right direction – i.e. that they are looking at the quoted text. This is wrong: ”quoted … Continue reading
Language Note of the Week 26
Short and not simple this week: instead of the half-Slovenglish “how it would be like…,” write “what it would be like to…” NOT: “I wonder how it would be like to climb Everest.” BUT: “I wonder WHAT it would be … Continue reading
Jason Blake’s Language Tips
Jason Blake, a teacher at the English Department in Ljubljana and also a member of the Association for the Study of English, has kindly agreed to share the weekly language tips that he prepares for his students with the readers … Continue reading
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