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Everybody’s got an opinion. Leaders are paid to make a decision. The difference between offering an opinion and making a decision is the difference between working for the leader and being the leader.
Victory is produced by and belongs to all.
If I have any talent, it’s in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me.
We all know gifs are pronounced “jifs,” right? Their creator says so, damn it!
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The more you know about English, the less you’re likely to think there are unbreakable “rules” for a lot of things.
I often think about the class differences involved in “jobs” vs. “careers.”
Everybody isn’t everybody.
The proper use of commas is often more art than science.
90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot.
Used properly a hashtag can be really cool. Hashtags provide an opportunity for sly editorial comment, for parallel and perpendicular trains of thought, in the limited space that Twitter and, to some extent, Facebook provide.
I’m not one of those “omg texting kids rite bad” alarmists. I just think there’s an interesting nexus where the Internet itself hastened language change when it comes to Internet terms.
My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save paper and ink or pixels on-screen.
There is a weird phenomenon where technology seems to be getting dumber in some ways as it gets smarter.
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don’t allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.
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I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.
As the leader, part of the job is to be visible and willing to communicate with everyone.
Machines aren’t replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.