High-quality documentation is not just essential for getting products ready to market and to increase sales, but also for reducing localisation costs. Localisation, the process of adapting your content to a specific market, starts with preparing the source content linguistically and functionally. To ensure global success, you must consider how the quality of your source […]
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Accidence Happen: Review of a Non-Pedantic Guide to Language Change
By Deborah Mellamphy on October 20, 2016 in Communication, Editing and Proofreading, Technical Communication
Oliver Kamm’s Accidence Will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English explores language change, the ways in which language is used today, and how experts discuss conventions and usage. According to Kamm, experts can be divided into two camps: Linguists (who are interested in the history of the language) Pedants or sticklers (who are only interested […]
