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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · 1d

We hope to see you at #MLA26! The online program is live, registration is open, and more information is available at www.mla.org/Events/2026-....

Excerpt from an email with the headline "Find Community, Get Strategies at #MLA26" and featuring a photo of a speaker holding a mic during a convention session

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Arnold Editorial Service @editorsareawesome.bsky.social · 28d

"US libraries, universities, and bookstores rely for the delivery of books on a small number of very big profit-driven companies, many of them privately held, whose commitment to freedom of expression is at best uncertain."

There's a bigger threat to books than bans.

Access to e-books relies entirely on private distributors that have the power to shut them off at any moment.

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · Sep 10

Typos, tricks and misprints

Why is English spelling so weird and unpredictable? Don’t blame the mix of languages; look to quirks of timing and technology

by Arika Okrent

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English language -- Dictionaries at PG:
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#dictionaries

The title page of Thomas Blount’s Glossographia, 1661 edition.

The page is arranged in a symmetrical, typographic style, with centered text in varying type sizes. The title is given the most prominence at the top, in bold.

At the top appears the word “GLOSSOGRAPHIA”, large and striking, followed by a subtitle that explains the purpose of the book: a dictionary of “hard words,” providing definitions and etymologies.

Beneath the main heading, the full title is spelled out in long form, with phrases like “A dictionary interpreting all such hard words … now used in our refined English tongue.”

https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_glossographia-or-a-dict_blount-thomas_1661/mode/1up

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Arnold Editorial Service @editorsareawesome.bsky.social · Sep 4

For funsies: A history of the Latin alphabet courtesy of UCLAB's ARETE project: uclab.fh-potsdam.de/arete/en

ARETE — Visual History of the Latin Alphabet

Interactive visualization of the history of the latin alphabet, showing the temporal and formal relationships of the different scripts and typefaces to each other

uclab.fh-potsdam.de

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Arnold Editorial Service @editorsareawesome.bsky.social · Aug 29

"When dominant language excludes or flattens, new forms emerge."

Queer Language: Borrowed Grammar, Made-Up Words, and Chosen Family | Highbrow Magazine

Sometimes it sounds like inside jokes and borrowed vowels, like made-up grammar and pet names that mean everything and one thing at the same time. Sometimes it sounds like chosen family. Sometimes it ...

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Arnold Editorial Service @editorsareawesome.bsky.social · Aug 25

Womp, womp: The trombone emoji can’t arrive soon enough for my husband’s terrible dad jokes. Here’s a peek at some of the other emojis expected to debut next month.

🥳 Say Hello to the New Emoji Coming in Unicode 17.0 This Fall! ✨

From 🥹 to 🦖 to 🎸, emoji have become the world's favorite way to say anything—without saying a word. Whether you're texting your best frie...

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Aug 8

Check out @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social's advice essay on what scholarly writers should focus on when preparing to send their work to publishers in @insidehighered.com, and learn more in her new book Make Your Manuscript Work (out now!)

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · Aug 6

Career Advice | The Good Enough Manuscript

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good enough when it comes to sending your manuscript to a publisher, Laura Portwood-Stacer writes. bit.ly/3J8oJ4p

#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

The Good Enough Manuscript (opinion)

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good enough when it comes to sending your manuscript to a publisher, Laura Portwood-Stacer writes.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Aug 8

Suspicious edits, and even entirely new articles, with errors, made-up citations and other hallmarks of AI-generated writing keep popping up on Wikipedia.

The site’s stewards are now toiling for long hours to find them and stamp them out.

Volunteers fight to keep ‘AI slop’ off Wikipedia

Hundreds of Wikipedia articles may contain AI-generated errors. Editors are working around the clock to stamp them out.

www.washingtonpost.com

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · Aug 7

Those who read our style tips often are good communicators.
Does that mean if you frequently read our tips, you are a good communicator?
Or that those who read our tips are often good communicators?
Can both be true? Of course. But be careful where you place a modifier if it can lead to confusion.

Black text on a yellow background, with the AP Stylebook entry titled squinting modifier. The entry reads:
A misplaced adverb that can be interpreted as modifying either of two words: Those who lie often are found out.
Place the adverb where there can be no confusion, even if a compound verb must be split: Those who often lie are found out. Or if that was not the sense: Those who lie are often found out.

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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · Aug 6

Should ideas be owned like physical objects, or are these property rights different? How can societies encourage innovation while making ideas accessible for the greater good? Watch this animated TED-Ed short examining philosophers’ perspectives on intellectual property rights through history

What’s an idea worth? How prominent thinkers have understood intellectual property | Aeon Videos

Should it be possible to own an idea? The debate around intellectual property has deep roots in the history of philosophy

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Arnold Editorial Service @editorsareawesome.bsky.social · Aug 5

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The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · Aug 5

AP's course Write Your Way to Success kicks off at 11 a.m. Eastern this morning with the first of four live sessions There's still time to join some of AP's top writers and editors to build your writing skills.
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Write Your Way to Success

In this four-part course, top writers and editors from The Associated Press show you how effective writing – and the things that go into it – can point the way toward better outcomes in your own…

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Arnold Editorial Service @editorsareawesome.bsky.social · Aug 1

✍️ Punctuation marks and editorial emotional intelligence. That’s where we come in.
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Are You a Hostile Punctuator???

We asked experts how to tell—and how to fix it.

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Arnold Editorial Service @editorsareawesome.bsky.social · Jul 24

For those wondering why # is called "pound." 🤔

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Jul 24

Centuries ago, the two letters 'lb' were commonly written in English usage as ‘℔.’

When it was written quickly, it resembled ‘#.’

Which may be why ‘#’ is sometimes called a ‘pound sign.’

Arnold Editorial Service @editorsareawesome.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Arnold Editorial Service @editorsareawesome.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Arnold Editorial Service @editorsareawesome.bsky.social · Jul 23

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