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TranslationBring out your inner Bard. In recognition of Shakespeare’s 445th Birthday, this Thursday, April 23, 2009, will be Talk Like Shakespeare Day. Shakespeare is a part of our everyday lives. He coined more than 1,700 words still in use in modern English and his plays influence the way we think about the world we live [...]

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TranslationSTC extended the deadline for the Early Bird Rate for registering for the Technical Summit to 24 April.

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TranslationCheck out this fun site by Bethany Keeley: The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/ She posts photos of unusual use of quotation marks such as the following of a building that implies it is a possible front for something else.

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TranslationThe STC conference has a job booth in the Exposition Hall. Job seekers should bring a copy of your CV/résumé to add to the book. Bring several copies for the main file as one will go in a regional book and the others will be available for employers to take with them. Employers may post [...]

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TranslationA review of Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style on its 50th anniversary. The Chronicle of Higher Education Section: The Chronicle Review http://chronicle.com/review Volume 55, Issue 32, Page B15 Excerpts from an article by Geffrey K. Pullum, head of linguistics and English language at the University of Edinburgh and co-author (with Rodney Huddleston) of [...]

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TranslationNews & Resources from the IABC Washington Our thoughts are with Tomeka Rawlings, president of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Washington, DC Chapter, who suffered a stroke last week. She is being treated at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore and will remain there until the end of this week when [...]

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