Editor, indexer, translator. Scholarly/academic materials. PhD. @The_CIEP Adv. Prof. Mem. English, Latin, Spanish, Italian texts. Latinist. Medievalist.
Toronto, Ontario
Joined February 2019
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I consider indexing to be both information/knowledge work and a creative process, re-interpreting and restructuring a whole book. Automated indexes are still not very good. Any further thoughts, fellow indexers and @djbduncan?
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Errors can be costly. Hiring an editor can help you get it right the first time, and within your budget. Need more convincing? Here are five good reasons to hire an editor: buff.ly/3ndII4x #HireAnEditor
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To celebrate our first in-person gathering in four years, the theme of the 2023 conference will be "Editors In Real Life." We’ve spent two years in the virtual world, but now it’s time to re-establish the human component in editing.
#Editors23 @EditorsCanada
ALT The Editors Canada 2023 conference logo features a wave of stylized human figures in red, blue, yellow and grey with arms outstretched. A semi-circle of text reads "in real life / en vrai"
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💎: carat (gemstones)
👑: karat (gold)
^: caret (proofreader’s insert)
🥕: carrot (What’s up, doc? 🐰)
#AmEditing
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ISC/SCI Conference 2023, See also Newfoundland
Conference 2023 will be held at the historic Murray Premises hotel on the waterfront in St. John’s, NL.
Special rates info: indexers.ca/conference-2023-…
Come to Conference 2023 in St. John’s, Newfoundland!
#IndexCanCon2023
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This month I'm taking every day to thank something in my editing world.
Because I just had occasion to pull it up, today I'm thankful for the Conscious Language Toolkit for Editors from @RedPenRabbit. Such a helpful resource! #AmEditing
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Clients, when we ask for clarification or additional context, this is NOT meant to offend you. It’s a sign that we CARE and we want your text to be clear and easily understood by the target audience. Your message is important and we want to get it right. #xl8 #precision
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PSA—reach out to people you may want to work with next year! It's never too early to start that chat, but it can easily become way too late. I book in advance, as do my friends, so we can't really help you or refer you when you need a service asap. Plan ahead!
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The academic writing website that received more than 240 million visits last year: Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL).
The OWL hosts a wealth of FREE resources on:
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When I catch a typo, I get a little hit of dopamine and think, "Ooh, tricky one there. Good job, me!" I never feel superior to the author or other editors who might have overlooked it. They had other things to focus on and worry about. We're all doing a great job here.
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Folks, please don't ask me to write dissertations and journal articles for you.
I can teach you how to write. But I can't do it for you.
It constitutes plagiarism and is, therefore, unethical.
ALT A screenshot of an exchange between Mushtaq and an anonymous person who is asking Mushtaq to writer his dissertation for him. Mushtaq declines saying it's plagiarism and unethical.
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When you say speed dating to a palaeographer it means something very particular. Here are the happy @mems_ukc MA students meeting some #manuscript #fragments @CburyCathedral Archives.
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Word of the day is the Italian ‘sprezzatura’: a studied nonchalance, implying that something you’ve spent ages on is really nothing all, or responding to a compliment on a carefully-chosen jumper with ‘oh, this old thing?’.
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To avoid a hiatus between two vowels in words like ruīna, Latin could add in a /w/ sound.
This sneaky sound underwent the general shift of /w/ to /v/ in Italian, turning ruīna into rovina.
This is how the name Iōannēs 'John' became Giovanni, and the city of Genua is now Genova.
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Check out the new online Dictionary of Basic Indexing Terms and Multilingual Dictionary of Indexing Terms at dictionary.theindexer.org/. I love this! #IndexConCon
ALT Screenshot of home page of the Dictionary of Basic Indexing Terms and Multilingual Dictionary of Indexjng Terms.
ALT Screenshot of translations for the words ‘index’ and ‘book index \ back-of-the-book index’.
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Thoroughly impressed with @MariekeGent's table of the differences between various Harvard styles and APA vs CMOS 😮 Thank you for your insights & tips! #CIEP2022 #AmEditing #ReferencingStyles
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All I have to say is thank the universe for the CMOS hyphenation guide.
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Hodiē, the Latin word for 'today' (a contration of hōc diē 'on this day'), changed over time into Italian oggi.
We even have a bit of evidence for an intermediate stage in this change, as Isidore of Seville remarks in the 7th century that "Italians tend to say ozie for hodie".
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Spondēre is a Latin word meaning 'to promise' or 'to give assurance', and someone who does so is a spōnsor.
Moreover, a spōnsus/spōnsa, someone promised in marriage, gives us the word 'spouse', while to promise in return or just answer someone is to respondēre – hence 'respond'.