Top 10 controversies surrounding cattle
I’m an (extremely) occasional contributor to Listverse. Its quality has been hit or miss as of late, but I usually see one or two lists a week that I find interesting and learn something from. This...
View ArticleAn e-Interview with Noeline Bridge
This interview appeared in the Winter 2012 issue of Bulletin, the Indexing Society of Canada’s newsletter. *** Editor of Indexing Names Noeline Bridge has been an indexer for more than 20 years. She...
View ArticleWhat does your markup say about you?
This interview also appears on The Editors’ Weekly, the Editors’ Association of Canada’s official blog. *** A friend of mine was venting to me about his old boss, who used to look over his reports....
View ArticleNeil James and Ginny Redish—Writing for the web and mobiles (PLAIN 2013)
Veteran plain language advocates Neil James and Ginny Redish shared some eye-opening statistics about web and mobile use at the PLAIN 2013 conference that may prompt some organizations to reprioritize...
View ArticleGuest word tasting at Sesquiotica
James Harbeck over at Sesquiotica let me do a guest word tasting, and I picked on winningest. How do you feel about that word?
View ArticlePlain Language: Clear and Simple
In 1991, in the heyday of the push for plain language in government, Supply and Services Canada produced a sixty-page plain language writing guide, in each official language, called Plain Language:...
View ArticleNow available: Pour un style clair et simple—Guide du formateur
Earlier this year I rebuilt Supply and Services Canada’s eminently useful but out-of-print plain language guides, including the two sixty-page booklets, Plain Language: Clear and Simple and Pour un...
View ArticleWhere does translation fit into plain language? An information-gathering post
What struck me most when rebuilding Supply and Services Canada’s plain language guides (Plain Language: Clear and Simple and Pour un style clair et simple) was that the French guides aren’t simply the...
View ArticleSanism and the language of mental illness
As I was reading about the stigma of mental illness, I was struck by the lack of a mainstream term to describe the discrimination that arises from that stigma. This void in our everyday terminology is...
View ArticleSteven Pinker—The thinking person’s approach to writing in the 21st century...
Experimental psycholinguist and author Steven Pinker gave the opening keynote at Beyond the Red Pencil, the Northwest Independent Editors Guild’s fifth biennial conference. His talk covered the same...
View ArticleMichelle Clough—Editing and writing in the video game industry (Editors BC...
Michelle Clough has worked in the game industry for seven years as a freelance writer, editor, narrative designer, localization specialist, and narrative quality-assurance (QA) playtester. At the April...
View ArticleSpent
CONTENT NOTE: Potty-mouth. I’ve spent a disproportionate amount of my billable time fact checking and editing references. Depending on the project schedule, I often wouldn’t mind that kind of work,...
View ArticleGuest word tasting at Sesquiotica
James Harbeck over at Sesquiotica let me do a guest word tasting, and I picked on winningest. How do you feel about that word? The post Guest word tasting at Sesquiotica appeared first on Iva Cheung.
View ArticlePlain Language: Clear and Simple
In 1991, in the heyday of the push for plain language in government, Supply and Services Canada produced a sixty-page plain language writing guide, in each official language, called Plain Language:...
View ArticleNow available: Pour un style clair et simple—Guide du formateur
Earlier this year I rebuilt Supply and Services Canada’s eminently useful but out-of-print plain language guides, including the two sixty-page booklets, Plain Language: Clear and Simple and Pour un...
View ArticleWhere does translation fit into plain language? An information-gathering post
What struck me most when rebuilding Supply and Services Canada’s plain language guides (Plain Language: Clear and Simple and Pour un style clair et simple) was that the French guides aren’t simply the...
View ArticleSanism and the language of mental illness
As I was reading about the stigma of mental illness, I was struck by the lack of a mainstream term to describe the discrimination that arises from that stigma. This void in our everyday terminology is...
View ArticleSteven Pinker—The thinking person’s approach to writing in the 21st century...
Experimental psycholinguist and author Steven Pinker gave the opening keynote at Beyond the Red Pencil, the Northwest Independent Editors Guild’s fifth biennial conference. His talk covered the same...
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