Jola (Close Reading)

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Sounds really interesting!

Tempting.

Apart from everything else, “editoress”? In 2011. OMFG. That alone is disqualifying. Add up all the rest and yeeting into the sun is too good for this man.

I felt the panic just reading that!

We’d locked ourselves out of the house. My dad jimmied the ground floor window for me to climb through. I go in, unlock front door, turn and see a large crumpled shape below window. Freak out thinking my dad had injured himself climbing in after me.

He’d tossed my coat through the window.

A woodwind ensemble called Maslow’s Hierarchy of Reeds.

Gelato. Always disappointing, no matter where it’s from or how hot the day or what the flavour is.

Sorry to hear you’ve had a rough week. Wishing you a lovely nose for your wine and good cards for your husband.

5. No indication of depth/length of discussion.

And that’s to say nothing about the fact Ctrl-F is useless when you’re reading a physical book.

Beyond that, indexes show you the structure of a text and use cross-references to help you find more information (things you didn’t know to look for).

Ctrl-F can fail you on a few fronts. 1. Way too many results to be useful, with no subcategorizing. 2. False positives. 3. Missing results because of different phrasing or oblique references. 4. You don’t come up with the term the author used. (Cont.)

And for non-fic that your index will be done by a real human being.

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Nope! There are whole societies of indexing professionals out there where you can find indexers who specialize in your genre/field, such as indexers.ca.

So proud of my home town. There in spirit even if not there in person.

So happy to see this. Proud of my fellow Minnesotans.

a man in a captain america uniform is sitting in a room and saying `` i understand that reference . '' Alt: Captain America is sitting in a room with uncostumed Avengers behind him and saying “I understand that reference.”

I may be a CMOS-for-life person, but I get no end of enjoyment from my fellow nerds who wrote all the citation examples for the MLA Handbook, 9th ed. I see you, Buffy lovers, Trekkies, and D&D gamers, to name a few. So many lovely gems in here.

#AmEditing #EdiBuddies

Feeling very proud of myself for catching a single, end-of-line period that was Calibri 8 and not TNR 12. This feels like a level up from catching an errant italicized period.

#AmEditing #EdiBuddies

I took this course and really enjoyed it. Jola is an awesome instructor!

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Make a Bond movie academic:

You Only Live Twice: A Reassessment of Kantorowicz’s _The King’s Two Bodies_

Linguistic experts urge Carney government to stop using British spellings | CBC News Promoters of Canadian English say the federal government is sending the wrong message to the world with its recent use of British spelling in official documents, including the 2025 federal budget.

In a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, five #linguistics #experts and an #editors association representative say the simplest way to keep national elbows up is to get #Canadian style #English down on the page. #spelling
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I had a joke about Hercules but have chores to do.

Lots of people have already mentioned microfilm and microfiche, so I’ll go with a skill I’m confident I’ll never employ again (because microf— can be great!):

Operating a mimeograph machine. Also, making transparencies for lectures.

Thank you! That was one of the first things that jumped out at me. I hate to write off a ST series without giving it a try, but my inner Trekkie is noping out like Picard around Lwaxana.

Would willingness to write essays (not outsource to AI) be improved if rhetoric had remained a mainstay of the curriculum? (These are the thoughts I think when indexing multi-volume texts on the history of rhetoric).

But then, I’ve read the letters medieval students wrote home.

#IndexSky

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

Pearl Jam
Crosby, Stills, and Nash (and maybe Young?)
Elliott Smith
Peter, Paul, and Mary
Guster

That’s what I said! Great minds..

Thanks!

Quite possibly. I’ve been working on it all year during Zoom meetings and at the conferences.