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Posted by: Richard Smyth
17 / 06 / 14
Here are the plagiarists of Internet Town With Ctrl+C and clattering keys They prowl and creep when you’re asleep And take whatever they please. Sounds good, right? They aren’t my words though: we lifted them from Allan Ahlberg’s Cops and Robbers, then made a couple of tweaks. These days, pinching stuff from the internet is […]
Posted by: Jacob Funnell
20 / 06 / 12
At Emphasis, we’re always highlighting the importance of keeping your reader at the front of your mind. In the past, that reader would always be human. Today, there’s a second audience to play to – and it’s just as important. Search engines such as Google and Bing crawl the web, weighing up your words and […]
Posted by: Catie Holdridge
18 / 02 / 11
Our brains are being re-wired and overloaded with every click of the mouse, according to Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. Our innate love of the new has found a virtual wonderland online, but the scattered nature of our movements while there could be damaging our ability […]
27 / 01 / 11
Whatever online persona you may have chosen to adopt in your blog, your deepest personality traits may be given away by your choice of words, a new study has found. The specific words bloggers use relate to which of the ‘big five’ personality factors dominates in that person. These factors are: openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, […]
16 / 09 / 10
The next edition of The Oxford English Dictionary probably won’t appear in print, according to the Oxford University Press (OUP), the dictionary’s owner. Instead, it is likely that the third edition will be accessible only electronically. OED3 won’t be ready for at least another decade, and the decision is not yet final. But when asked […]
21 / 07 / 10
On misusing or fumbling a word, is it better to hold your hands up to it or to compare yourself to the world’s greatest playwright? For Sarah Palin, apparently, the answer was easy. Her use of the entirely made up ‘refudiate’ was no error; indeed, inventing it was akin to something Shakespeare himself would have […]
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