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Post by Twoddle on Nov 21, 2018 9:28:25 GMT
Thanks, Verbivore; ProtonMail looks interesting, and I particularly like the encrypted mail. It might have a few too many bells and whistles for me, but I've yet to investigate it thoroughly.
I use a domain name, set up by Paul D, so that I don't have to alter my e-mail addresses in the event that I change my ISP. It's an excellent idea but it does rather complicate matters when I change my e-mail software. I'm currently consulting Paul on that!
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 21, 2018 9:57:50 GMT
If you use your own domains, Twod, as I do (three of them) Proton costs about AU$5 / month.
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Nov 27, 2018 23:59:29 GMT
I am not sure that this link will work properly but just have a look round here— wordinfo cartoons Now I have “sent” it I’ll try to see if it works
Sorry, no, it doesn’t. Try Googling “wordinfo cartoons” and selecting images. Yes, that sort of works but I did once find a set of cartoons that only illustrated the black and white images.
It seems best to open one of the images in the horizontal bar and then to scroll down. Maybe someone can find a better link but, feeling that someone has to post something, I have posted this. ☹️
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Nov 28, 2018 1:28:05 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Nov 28, 2018 8:15:10 GMT
Thanks, LJH, for posting.
A few responses to Ms Kellaway’s piece:
* We should not get overly obsessed with making spelling mistakes or typos, because they are not what makes our writing good or bad … – Agreed; however, they are what makes some writing a waste of resources. If a reader is confronted with three stumbling blocks in as many paragraphs (or the first page of, say, a novel) s/he is lost to the writer; people are generally lazy readers, and too many typos or other infelicities can put them off reading a piece. If one is going to lose readers because of sloppiness, everyone's time is wasted.
* Had the mistake not been spotted, the newspaper would have looked ridiculous and I would have seemed sloppy, dim and outrageously unprofessional. – Ah – like the BBC or ABC online news? Every day those once-august publications look ridiculous, sloppy, dim, and outrageously unprofessional. Ever since they abandoned proofreaders their written material has gone down the toilet, along with much of their credibility.
* My ability to introduce mistakes has kept well ahead of the efforts of Microsoft and Apple to eliminate them. – She must be really bad at it then; MS and Apple, with their damned “autocorrect” functions, introduce at least as many errors as they prevent – possibly more. They are particularly bad at distorting personal or corporate names into completely unrelated words; I deal with the consequences daily at work. My requests that writers turn off autocorrect have borne no fruit; authors seem too insecure to work without it. What the hell did they do before autocorrect or spellcheck were invented?
* I print my articles out and read them on paper. I change the font for the final read-through to the hideous Comic Sans as the gawky shape of the letters sometimes exposes a mistake that had been hiding. – A technique I’ve employed for years, whether the piece be mine or someone else’s. I first check a piece in the wordprocessor or text editor file it was composed in; next I change the font/s and recheck it; then, still on screen, in the page-layout program (for me that’s usually Adobe InDesign). Finally I check it on a galley print. It’s amazing how many errata I pick up each time, though different ones on each reading in each format.
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