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Shares Therefore, I write: sedgehead 2015-1-14 06:56; This was a comment about writing English that I expanded for use here. The comment was for a document I was editing. Time units and introductory words should be followed by commas. Examples: Therefore, However, In addition, Thursday afternoon, Next we ...; 421 views|0 replies

Shares He, she, and it: sedgehead 2015-1-3 02:18; Headlines: Many languages consider gender very important. As often happens, I started to write a response to someone on another website and expanded that response into a blog here. The use of "he or she" (or) "he/she" started in the 1970s in English. In many languages (German and ...; 534 views|4 replies Hot 3

Shares Dashing though the snow!: sedgehead 2015-1-3 02:01; XYZ Dashes My main client put out a simple message to explain dashes. It says: 1. Hyphen, en-dash, and minus sign Although they all look about the same, hyphens, en-d ...; 508 views|1 replies Hot 1

Shares Drive, ride, or fly?: sedgehead 2014-12-31 10:26; "Flamen" wrote a blog on Dioenglish about the safety of flying a plane or riding in a car. This blog started as a response to his/her note. I rode a train for the first time in my life this year. I loved it. I rode from Shanghai to Shenyang and back.Flamen descri ...; 516 views|2 replies Hot 1

Shares Dreams: dogs and baths: sedgehead 2014-12-30 10:55; Keeping the theme of dreams going, I just had another. I only napped a few minutes, but my medicines have made for some interesting and vivid dreams in the last few years. In this dream, my wife and I were standing outside our house with two dogs we used to have. I have a video of them ...; Individual Classification: Dreams|474 views|0 replies

Shares Dreams: sedgehead 2014-12-30 00:33; Some time ago, someone suggested we write about dreams. I do so periodically. My dreams used to be in black-and-while but now I often dream in vivid colors. I guess the technology has been improved! A few nights ago, I had an interesting dream. My wife and I were driving wi ...; Individual Classification: Dreams|597 views|1 replies Hot 1

Shares Staying Busy: sedgehead 2014-12-23 03:21; One of my Dioenglish friends sent me a message saying I had not been here for a while and that I was missed. Thank you. I tried to write a response to that message but it was too long and the message was lost as a result. The software did not warn me. It simply deleted the message and offered to le ...; 553 views|8 replies Hot 3

Shares Active and Passive Voice / The Importance of Revisions: sedgehead 2014-12-23 02:50; Sometimes, I write long emails. Then, I turn them into blogs if they are useful here. Here's a note I wrote to someone whose graduate school "personal statement" I have edited three or four times. It emphasizes the importance of making revisions to formal documents. To my frie ...; 488 views|3 replies Hot 2

Shares The E word: sedgehead 2014-10-14 11:06; As a scientist, I think a lot about things of scientific importance. For example, as one news reporter said this week, ice ages happen about once every 11,000 years and we are about due. When I was about ten years old, I heard this (1962). It is still true. There may be some sort ...; 549 views|4 replies Hot 2

Shares Quotation marks: sedgehead 2014-9-15 14:33; Someone asked me about quotation marks. Here's my response: Personally, for many years, I preferred and used ". and not ." because I thought, "The period ends the sentence and it should go last." But when I started editing for scientific journals, were details are important, I found ...; 878 views|3 replies Hot 3

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