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Knocked, you weren’t in. Opportunity

The Ruby Wizardry book translation into Ukrainian is published!

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? Clarence Darrow

Wonderful Burns’ epigram in Marshak’s translation:

Writing is nature’s way of telling you how sloppy your thinking is.

Acronyms are new words formed from the initial letters (or parts) of a series of words, such as RAM from random access memory, and radar from radio detecting and ranging. Initialisms are a similar sort of abbreviation but are pronounced by saying each letter separately, for example BBC, VHS, and the FYI of this post’s title. The distinction, BTW, is not always strictly observed – initialisms are often loosely called acronyms. This imprecision is rarely problematic, but it’s good to know the difference. HTH.

This week: technology links and some English titbits.

This week: technology links and AmE vs BrE talk.

“No book in shorter space, with fewer words, will help any writer more than this persistent little volume.” — The Boston Globe A friend recommended a book to read, “The Elements of Style” by W. Strunk. It resonated with me strongly, here are a couple of quotes: Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.