Post AbJSrqi3w92oZhJiGu by JamesBoxer10@zirk.us
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 (DIR) Post #AbJBBsk4I9wpUjeqZc by grammargirl@zirk.us
       2023-10-30T21:35:21Z
       
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       Associated Press style can be tricky! You hyphenate "co-worker," but not "coworking," for example.I'll have details like this plus an overview of some of the AP guidelines for writing about AI (and some of my own tips for writing with AI).Join me THIS WEEK, Thursday, November 2, for my Advanced AP Style and Writing AI Guidelines webinar, and use the code MACMIL for $90 off.#journalism https://www.ragan.com/store/grammar-girls-guide-to-advanced-ap-style-writing-ai-guidelines/
       
 (DIR) Post #AbJBTLHpPvrGwlm5Pk by ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
       2023-10-30T21:38:26Z
       
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       @grammargirl Hmm, is it "Robot-Apocalypse" or "Robot Apocalypse"?  🤔 😉
       
 (DIR) Post #AbJBwpkPF8spolCikS by theunixman@kolektiva.social
       2023-10-30T21:43:45Z
       
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       @grammargirl I got fired for using "e-mail" instead of "email" once... (well there were other things too but this is when I knew it was inevitable...)
       
 (DIR) Post #AbJCmmEBZfyJxZtyDI by grammargirl@zirk.us
       2023-10-30T21:53:12Z
       
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       @ai6yr Ha! I've been asked to include an AI element all three of the courses I'm working on right now (and it's Robot Apocalypse). :)
       
 (DIR) Post #AbJCwbGjAsrWrom6E4 by grammargirl@zirk.us
       2023-10-30T21:54:57Z
       
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       @theunixman Wow, that's hard core. The first part of my course is a big section about hyphens. I used to always get the most questions about them at the end, so I bulked up that part.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbJNuYI6NFugY2dxj6 by SeumanOtwal@social.vivaldi.net
       2023-10-30T23:57:49Z
       
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       @grammargirl — This is perhaps tangential, but not, I think, irrelevant.Fowler, in his *Modern English Usage*, rejected the hyphenated forms “co-operation” and “co-partner” with the observation that “hyphens in the middle of words are no ornament, & admittance should be refused to all that cannot prove their usefulness.”  But it seems to me that the different forms can easily carry different shades of meaning — “coworker”, for instance, suggesting a tighter or more conventional combination than “co-worker”.  And so, not being subject to the tyranny of AP, I adopt the looser form when my meaning *is* something looser.  I might write, for instance, that Politician So-and-so has proved my unwilling co-worker in some matter.  I’m thereby carefully avoiding the implication that the unhappy fellow actually collaborated with me.Even Fowler was willing to admit that the hyphen might be appropriate when describing something novel — a co-secretary, for example.  So I think my position has precedent, and I would willingly stare down the AP Borg on the matter.Apart from that quibble, my praise for your work.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbJSrqi3w92oZhJiGu by JamesBoxer10@zirk.us
       2023-10-31T00:53:25Z
       
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       @grammargirl Wow, you look top-notch pretty.
       
 (DIR) Post #AbJU0Z2X6OJaKibxpY by grammargirl@zirk.us
       2023-10-31T01:06:05Z
       
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       @SeumanOtwal What nuanced use of a hyphen! I love it. One thing I like about teaching the AP style webinar is that it's straightforward. I just say "this is AP style," and I don't have to do the hard work they did figuring out all the details that end up with solutions like "co-worker" and "coworking."
       
 (DIR) Post #AbKiavZeOIwhAAIN8a by theunixman@kolektiva.social
       2023-10-31T15:24:09Z
       
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       @grammargirl programmers are more pedantic than can be imagined... and over the smallest, least relevant things.