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Category Archive: Language

Lost in Transcription

Can the Mac produce a transcribed account of important meetings using Dictation, or would an audio typist be better?

April 8, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

in-, en-, im-, em-, il-, and ir-: almost morphological nuts

Adding in- as a prefix in English turns out to be more complex than it at first seems. All you have to know is the meaning of in- and the origin of the word.

April 7, 2015 Language

In a word – keen

From a brave king, to the pungent taste of mustard, with a wail on the side – all in the one word.

April 5, 2015 General, Language

The joy of TeX

Few computer products thrive for over 30 years: the Mac (31 years young), Unix in its many guises (46), and TeX (37) each spring to mind.

April 5, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Weather it

How it came to be raining, but the weather will be fine and sunny.

April 2, 2015 General, Language

Words on Macs: 5 Spot the difference

Tools to take two (or more) documents, work out the differences between them, reveal those in a manner which allows their review, and allow you to apply selected changes found in one document to the other.

April 1, 2015 Language, Macs, Technology

In a word – spring

A single origin, many different meanings, and some irregularities to provoke the odd peeve.

March 31, 2015 General, Language

Words on Macs: 4 Command and control

T T Read More

Have you ever had a word processor freeze on you, trashing your work? Or has an editor asked you to make changes, then changed their mind again? You should use version control.

March 30, 2015 Language, Macs, Technology

Open source Europe? The EU copyright report

The European Union recognises the need to update its copyright legislation. But are current proposals heading in the right direction?

March 27, 2015 General, Language, Life, Painting, Technology

In a word – notwithstanding

This odd preposition can also appear as a postposition, but does not behave much like either.

March 27, 2015 Language

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