Author Topic: New column-type thingy (Read 107778 times)

Jonathon · « **Reply #950 on:** April 24, 2019, 03:47:09 PM »

Success!

rivka · « **Reply #951 on:** April 24, 2019, 07:02:55 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on April 24, 2019, 01:32:14 PM

And by the way, I just copied the Hebrew from Wiktionary, so I can't vouch for it.

Oh, it's right. (I would have mentioned if there were an issue. I know you'd want to know.)

Quote from: Tante Shvester on April 24, 2019, 03:21:30 PM

By now, the more popular spelling looks wrong to me, so I suppose you've ruined me for it a little.

Yup, me too. We had a student a while back who spells it the other way, which delayed the process slightly (and meant I always had to check when writing to either you or to him). But once he graduated, it was -thon all the way.

Jonathon · « **Reply #952 on:** April 25, 2019, 08:54:54 AM »

Quote from: rivka on April 24, 2019, 07:02:55 PM

Oh, it's right. (I would have mentioned if there were an issue. I know you'd want to know.)

👍

Quote from: rivka on April 24, 2019, 07:02:55 PM

Quote from: Tante Shvester on April 24, 2019, 03:21:30 PM
By now, the more popular spelling looks wrong to me, so I suppose you've ruined me for it a little.
Yup, me too. We had a student a while back who spells it the other way, which delayed the process slightly (and meant I always had to check when writing to either you or to him). But once he graduated, it was -thon all the way.

👍👍👍

Jonathon · « **Reply #953 on:** September 03, 2019, 09:12:41 PM »

The Style Guide Alignment Chart

rivka · « **Reply #954 on:** September 04, 2019, 08:17:08 AM »

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #955 on:** September 04, 2019, 08:42:12 AM »

Ah, APA Style. It was my bane in school.

Jonathon · « **Reply #956 on:** September 04, 2019, 09:04:12 AM »

I love how many people are saying, "Yup, APA really is the worst."

rivka · « **Reply #957 on:** September 04, 2019, 08:29:41 PM »

Again with the Eats, Shoots, and Leaves hate.

*shakes head sadly*

Ela · « **Reply #958 on:** September 04, 2019, 09:43:10 PM »

I'm with Jonathon on that.

And, wow, that article attracted a LOT of comments.

Jonathon · « **Reply #959 on:** September 05, 2019, 10:18:39 AM »

And a lot of traffic too! I haven't gotten this many hits since my "12 Mistakes" post went viral.

rivka · « **Reply #960 on:** September 05, 2019, 10:40:17 AM »

Well, of course. You're a NYT-quoted person now.

Jonathon · « **Reply #961 on:** September 09, 2019, 08:31:32 AM »

I posted the chart on Twitter and got over a thousand retweets and almost three thousand likes. Then I posted it on my blog and got over a thousand Facebook shares and nearly twenty thousand pageviews. Then I posted it on a Slack channel at work and got crickets. Absolutely nothing.

I don't understand my coworkers sometimes.

Jonathon · « **Reply #962 on:** September 09, 2019, 08:32:23 AM »

Wait, correction. It looks like one of our interns responded with 💯. Nothing from any of the editing staff, though.

Brinestone · « **Reply #963 on:** September 09, 2019, 08:46:28 AM »

Huh. Maybe they disagree but don't want to argue with a coworker? But you use Chicago there, right? Maybe they don't really get the jokes and are embarrassed to say so? But then I think they'd at least like it to hide that they don't get it.

Huh.

Jonathon · « **Reply #964 on:** September 09, 2019, 09:10:42 AM »

Yeah, we mostly use Chicago with a little AP for things like number style (which doesn't really make sense to me because we could just use Chicago's alternate number rule, but whatever).

Maybe they just don't get the whole alignment chart meme? I don't know.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #965 on:** September 09, 2019, 09:40:16 AM »

No one I work with understands me, either. I just got used to that over the years.

rivka · « **Reply #966 on:** September 09, 2019, 12:23:30 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on September 09, 2019, 09:10:42 AM

Maybe they just don't get the whole alignment chart meme?

This strikes me as fairly likely.

sweet clementine · « **Reply #967 on:** September 10, 2019, 07:41:20 AM »

A couple of years ago I finally caved and learned how to play D&D. I now get all the D&D jokes out there (I had no idea there were so many, incidentally). But before that I still found alignment chart memes funny. It's pretty self explanatory, even if you don't fully understand the context.

sweet clementine · « **Reply #968 on:** September 10, 2019, 07:41:44 AM »

what I'm getting at is shame on your coworkers. Shame. Shame. Shame.

Jonathon · « **Reply #969 on:** September 10, 2019, 08:53:07 AM »

I don't play D&D either but have enjoyed a lot of alignment chart memes too.

Jonathon · « **Reply #970 on:** September 10, 2019, 09:09:49 AM »

I have a new piece for Grammar Girl: "Verbing Nouns and Nouning Verbs".

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #971 on:** September 10, 2019, 09:55:27 AM »

That was a good read.

Jonathon · « **Reply #972 on:** September 10, 2019, 10:00:01 AM »

Thanks! Though I'm disappointed with myself for not working in this Calvin & Hobbes strip.

rivka · « **Reply #973 on:** September 10, 2019, 12:51:07 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on September 10, 2019, 08:53:07 AM

I don't play D&D either but have enjoyed a lot of alignment chart memes too.

Ditto. However, a few years back when they were relatively new (at least to me), I did have to educate myself to understand them.

Quote from: Tante Shvester on September 10, 2019, 09:55:27 AM

That was a good read.

Agreed!

Quote from: Jonathon on September 10, 2019, 10:00:01 AM

Though I'm disappointed with myself for not working in this Calvin & Hobbes strip.

That was definitely a missed opportunity, but perhaps might not have worked with the piece's overall tone.

rivka · « **Reply #974 on:** September 10, 2019, 01:02:04 PM »

I was just reading an article that did this. It used "glassed" to mean "were able to see with our binoculars", which I figured out solely by context.

It's in the dictionary, but I don't think I have ever seen that usage before.