How Life in Tech Comms has Changed … or has It?
Tools change, but one thing remains constant… When I started as a technical writer, I knew what I signed on for. When I started technical writing, I had no idea that’s what it was called. I was just creating guides to help a user play games. It was 1982 and I...
Malaphors: We’ll Burn That Bridge When We Get to It
Have you ever had trouble recalling the beginning or end of a particular idiom and mixed it up with a completely unrelated saying? Has the cow come home to roost? I want to teach you how to mix these up on purpose and have some fun with the language you may use...
It’s vs. Its — It’s Alive!
It’s a real shame so many people confuse “it’s” and “its”. One is a possessive determiner and the other is a simple contraction. But according to Grammarly’s Top 30 Commonly Confused Words in English these aren’t as simple as they may seem. I’ve already written about...
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