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I’m Annie, a professional editor, writer and communications specialist living life on the beautiful Coffs Coast. I have three main modes: teaching a local fitness class, trying not to drift to New Zealand at Red Rock, and ruthlessly eliminating jargon. If I’m not doing one of those, I’m probably attending to the needs of my editorial assistant (the cat). This is the space where I explore the powerful intersection of human nuance and AI logic—all in pursuit of better communication.
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10 Unique, AI-Powered Christmas Gift Ideas
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- 10 Unique, AI-Powered Christmas Gift Ideas
- The Liar’s Dividend: Truth in an Era of Artificial Minds
- AI on the Menu: Choosing the Right Digital Waiter for You
- How to Get Started with AI
- How to Use AI Ethically in Content Creation: A Hitchhiker’s Guide
- Embrace AI Without Compromising Your Voice: A Writer’s Guide
- Why do you get up in the morning?
- Bridge
- Quotes and quotation marks Part Two
- Quotes and quotation marks
- Question Marks
- Prepositions
- Fat-free writing (more on plain English)
- Plain English and short sentences (less is more)
- Numbers, measurement and currencies
- Loose vs. lose
- Pronouns: ‘I’ and ‘me’
- Hyphens
- Effect and affect; Enquire and inquire
- Email etiquette
- Dates
- Conjunctions: Use of ‘although’ and ‘however’
- Commas
- Colons and semi-colons
- Clichés and jargon
- Capitals and lower case
- Articles (the, a, an)
- Ampersand (&), ellipsis (…), en and em dash & the solidus (/)
- Agreement: singular, plural and gender
- Adjectives
- Abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms
- Editor’s Lament
- Apostrophes
- Welcome!
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‘All living languages exist in a state of tension between growth and decay. Languages change because playfulness and the desire to impress are universal human traits; they grow in response to technological innovation, cultural contact and social developments. Working against these impulses to the new are the forces of stability: inertia, the fear of being misunderstood, and the fixative effect of writing.’
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‘Spelling is not important in itself, but it is a social marker enabling those who can spell to look down on those who can’t.’
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‘Remember that literacy is an accident of birth and does not confer superior wisdom or virtue.’
– The Editor’s Companion by Janet Mackenzie.
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