March 2009

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• Why do some people capitalize practically every word they write online?
  Charmaine Cooper Hussain added an answer.Charmaine Cooper Hussain Wow, that is a horrid example, and one that I'll have to save for my corporate writing training presentations!This is an exaggerated example of a smaller but much more common error in corporate communications: capitalizing common nouns that describe a product or capitalizing the individua […]
• Is it true you should never put a comma before the word "and"?
  Charmaine Cooper Hussain voted up an answer.Ken Walker, Online news editor for the St. Petersburg (Fla.... It depends on the rules of style you're following. For example, The Chicago Manual of Style, which many academic institutions require their students to follow, requires a serial (or "Oxford") comma. The Associated Press Stylebook advises […]
• Could complicated writing be translated to Simple English automatically?
  Charmaine Cooper Hussain added an answer.Charmaine Cooper Hussain I'm not sure that quantifying English for a seamless translation from complex to simple is possible at this time. Like for "cutting up long sentences," would the program look for multiple subjects within a single sentence or the number of overall words? How many words are " […]
• Is there a program that will take a daily screenshot of a Web page and e-mail it to you?
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