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What Can Technical Communication Do After The U.S. Election?
DUDE! What just happened? In the past week, the United States had an important election for its next President. The election results, to say the least, have been controversial. While I’m not one to...
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BBC – Capital – Native English speakers are the world’s worst communicators
In a room full of non-native speakers, ‘there isn’t any chance of understanding’. It might be their language, but the message is often lost Source: BBC – Capital – Native English speakers are the...
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BBC – Culture – The language the government tried to suppress
Most of Singapore’s population speak the unofficial language or dialect known as Singlish. But why would the government rather it went away? James Harbeck takes a look. Source: BBC – Culture – The...
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BBC – Culture – Why is Canadian English unique?
America’s neighbour resisted annexation by the US and its people remained subjects of the British monarch. But Canada’s English isn’t British or American, writes James Harbeck. Source: BBC – Culture –...
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The Double Vocabulary of English | Mental Floss
Why does English have so many words that have twins? Here’s how we got to have two vocabularies, one based in Germanic roots, and one based in Latin. Source: The Double Vocabulary of English | Mental...
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IDW looks like an awesome event–can’t wait to go!
“It’s just a dream to go to Information Development World, so I can learn more about content strategy! C’mon gang, let’s go!” says Barbie. Last year, I was really disappointed that I couldn’t go to the...
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More localization and user-friendly features in the new Framemaker 2015
You might have heard by now that there have been some updates to the Adobe Technical Communications Suite (TCS) that were released today! Both Framemaker and Robohelp have been updated significantly,...
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How to Write a Sentence – Infographic
The Wonder Woman of Writing, Marcia Riefer Johnston, has recently created a fantastic infographic on how to create a sentence. If anyone knows how to break it down, she does! For more information,...
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Top 5 Tips for Creating Global E-Learning
I conferred with two e-learning experts to get their input about globalization and localization issues in e-learning. The following recommendations emerged. Source: www.contentrules.com Val Swisher of...
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Book Review: Global Content Strategy: A Primer by Val Swisher
Image courtesy of XML Press Anyone who has read this blog for a while knows how much I love Val Swisher of Content Rules. Why? Well, first of all, she’s a lovely person and great friend all around....
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English is global–or is it? I’m getting confused.
I apologize for not writing for quite a long time. I hadn’t realized how long it had been! I’ve been really busy all these weeks, deep in my professional work, my volunteer work, and working on me....
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“Lucy, you have some ‘splanin’ to do!”: Considering your ESL Customers
Content Rules Inc. was kind enough to extend their invitation to have me blog for them again. This time, it’s on a subject that’s near and dear to their hearts as well as mine. This article talks about...
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The Top 6 Questions to Ask When Creating Your Content Strategy
WOW! I will admit that there are a lot of content strategists who have been doing content strategy for a much longer time than I have. Val is one of those people, and she’s someone I consider to be...
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No wonder (verbal) English is Confusing–Part 5
I often enjoy reading the blog/website Anglotopia, as it is written by a person who loves England and UK stuff as much as I do (if not more) and is making a living doing it (lucky!). This latest...
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No wonder (verbal) English is confusing – Part 4
Evidently, Siobhan Thompson is back, and BBC’s Anglophenia must be doing a series on the difference between British English and American English. Here’s another gem on British colloquialisms–some you...
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No wonder (verbal) English is confusing, Part 3
It seems these kinds of articles are coming out nonstop these days. While this one doesn’t have a video (awwwww), it’s short and to the point, and is another example of why spoken English can be rather...
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No wonder English is confusing, Part 2
As a follow-up to my fun post, “No Wonder (Verbal) English is confusing!“, here’s a follow-up that really shows how crazy it can get. Although I think in the end, there is some (okay, a lot of) Celtic...
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No wonder (verbal) English is confusing!
I’ve been seeing a lot of videos about various accents in the English language lately, and it makes me think that I must have missed some sort of calling to be a linguist. I find it all fascinating!...
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ENIGMA Decoders Have Nothing On We Tech Comm Writers
An ENIGMA coding machine, found at the Computer History Museum (photo credit: TechCommGeekMom) Technical communicators truly do have skills that most others don’t have, and it’s a simple set of skills....
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Eddie Izzard Understands Content Strategy
Eddie IzzardPhoto courtesty of omg.yahoo.com My husband and I had a rare date night last weekend to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary, and we celebrated by going to Philadelphia to see British...
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