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stroppyeditor.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Contractions youre, well, cant, dont etc. generally make language sound less formal, and avoiding them makes it more formal. Over the years, contractions have become more acceptable higher up the formality spectrum. This is part of a general shift thats been going on for decades: styles of language that were once firmly seen | |
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covell.ca
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| | | | | Your feedback was thoughtful and productive, and it was a big help to me as I fleshed out my main character and made the story setting more realistic. I have edited technical documentation for two decades, and have several years experience as a freelance editor, working with book-length fiction and non-fiction. I'm a published writer, | |
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| | | | | We humans have a unique capacity to acquire language, even as adults. However, if you have ever used Duolingo, you might have realized that children are more successful at acquiring languages than adults. This observation is puzzling; since adults are smarter than children, shouldn't it be the other way around? One set of explanations for this paradox focuses on parsing -- that is, applying our knowledge of grammar as sentences unfold incrementally... | |
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| | | I just thought I'd make a post with my posters in it so it's easy to find and share. ??You can purchase prints on Redbubble, but I only get a tiny cut. If you want to support me making more the best way is via Patreon. | ||