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Books are fish.
Ebooks are jellyfish.
Different.
Yet symbiotic.
And swim in the same sea.
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ONE OF THE DEFINITIONS OF 'LITERALLY' IS "IN EFFECT, VIRTUALLY—USED IN AN EXAGGERATED WAY TO EMPHASIZE A STATEMENT OR DESCRIPTION." SOME PEOPLE GET MAD IF YOU USE IT THIS WAY BECAUSE IT ISN'T THE WORD'S PRIMARY MEANING, BUT THIS SENSE OF 'LITERALLY' HAS BEEN USED FOR 250 YEARS SO
We tend to use italics for one of two reasons: for emphasis, or to convey an alternate voice (such as direct thought in narrative fiction). Here’s a nice, short exploration of styling italics and bold semantically instead of presentationally:
Semantic HTML5 as She is Wrote: An Exploration of i, em, b, and strong by @Simon_Collinson epubsecrets.com/semantic-htm…
I’m pretty passionate about this. As a book designer, I am continually interpreting presentational formatting in manuscripts to discern the intended structural semantics. This is especially important for ebooks. I wrote a bit about this: booklove.space/blog/semantic…
Language evolves — esp in a new medium, often for clarity and to capture nuance, esp now, bc internet 😸 newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle…
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Singular “they” has been around a long, long, long time.
The word ‘they’
- was looked up 313% more this year than last.
- had a new sense added in September.
- is increasingly common in both public and personal communication.
‘They’ is our 2019 #WordOfTheYear.
merriam-webster.com/words-at…
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Come coördinate with me as a copy editor at @newyorker dot com! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.…
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People have been proposing gender-neutral pronouns for 150 years.
The gender-neutral singular "they" has a storied history — and it's got English grammar and gender equity on its side. Jane Austen's novels are bristling with the word. #PronounsDay
n.pr/2MkkjHI
PSA: Adobe Creative Cloud users on Mac may want to hold off on any upgrade to #Catalina until Adobe has released more updates for #Photoshop and #Lightroom
creativebloq.com/news/adobe-…
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Laura Scott, Book Love Space retweeted
'Appraise': 💎to set a value on
'Apprise': 🗣 to give notice to
'Apprize': dealer's choice, pretty much
merriam-webster.com/words-at…
The typography of the candidates.
How 2020 Democrats could rewrite the rules of political typography yello.substack.com/p/how-202…