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Posted by: Cathy Dann
18 / 02 / 13
Last week, we set our readers a challenge: to shorten a paragraph and tweet it to us at @EmphasisWriting, with the hashtag #EmphasisTest, using Stan Carey’s tips on writing concisely for Twitter. We’ve had some excellent responses, and choosing a winner has been very tricky indeed. The paragraph given was: It is generally agreed among […]
Posted by: em-admin
01 / 02 / 13
In my previous article for Emphasis, I looked at long and short words and their relative merits, writes Stan Carey. One place where shorter is usually better is Twitter, where everyone has to stick to the 140-character limit – unless you use a tweet extension service, and where’s the fun in that? Many tweets contain […]
28 / 01 / 13
Sacré bleu! France has added hashtag to its list of banned English words, writes Cathy Relf. The Académie française, the state body appointed to protect the French language, has announced that the English word is to be eschewed in favour of the French mot-dièse. Mot-dièse has attracted some criticism, partly because it can’t actually be […]
27 / 11 / 12
If you were nervous about using Twitter in a professional capacity already, the past month’s headlines about 10,000 tweeters having potentially libelled Conservative peer Lord McAlpine probably won’t have helped your confidence. But tweeting doesn’t have to be the minefield it’s often presented as. Just remember to treat it with the same respect that you […]
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