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		<title>Baking a Turd: Language polishing Google translate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My cousin, a music producer, told me: sure it&#8217;s possible to polish a turd. First you bake it, then lacquer it. I reflect on these words as I attempt to language polish the output of Google translate. I wonder what subtle principles of linguistics and aesthetics &#8212; principles of which we as sentient language speakers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bibliography to footnote references</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m switching a set of papers from Chicago notes-bibliography style with full bibliography to Chicago notes-bibliography style without full bibliography. As any fule no, this will mean expanding the first occurence of the reference item in the notes from shortened to full form (among other things). Since it&#8217;s May, and a sunny evening, it&#8217;s important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terrible Philosophy Covers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Academic philosophy books seem particularly prone to terrible covers, leading me to think that if we can&#8217;t think of a decent thing to put on the front of the book, then maybe we shouldn&#8217;t have written it in the first place. What, for example, does this cover tell us about the content of Paul Horwich&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[New number one in my list of worst copyediting mistakes of all time: the consistent misspelling of &#8216;Ouspensky&#8216; as &#8216;Onpensky&#8217; in the text of Aldo Leopold&#8217;s &#8216;The Land Ethic&#8217;, in Hugh LaFollette&#8216;s first year ethics collection &#8216;Ethics in Practice&#8217;. See here. I&#8217;ve taught a course based on this book: Leopold is the highlight of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The difference between a PhD thesis and a book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years back, I was advised that I should not expect my PhD to be the best thing I would ever write. &#8216;It had better not be!&#8217; expostulated the academic in question, &#8216;otherwise you&#8217;ll never be able to make any progress in your academic career.&#8217; Although in fact this turned out to be true, it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Ibid.&#8217;: Finding those pesky periods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Ibid.&#8217; is an abbreviation for &#8216;ibidem&#8216; (&#8216;in the same place&#8217;). The full stop in &#8216;ibid.&#8217; is therefore obligatory. But it can be dashed hard to spot. To automate the search (in MS Word), hit Cntrl-F to bring up the Find/Replace box, enable Wildcards, and enter: ibid[!.] in the find box. This little string finds instances [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grim, grim news from England</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The grim, grim news from England flows unabated. The rule of the modern robber baron is unchallenged. This morning, for the first time in many years, I listened to BBC Radio 4&#8242;s &#8216;Today&#8217; programme to hear the news of John Browne&#8217;s education review. In a saner world, it would be unthinkable that someone like John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Wildcard Expressions for Reference Lists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For working with reference lists Find a line with no period at the end, insert period. ([!.])^13 \1.^p Reverse the two words of an author&#8217;s name if ending in a comma. Add period. ^13() (), ^p\2, \1. Search for a date (just the year) which does not have a full stop after it. ([0-9]{4}) Search [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;And Getting Madder by the Second</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;The service we offer is 100% legal, very legitimate and won’t make you a cheater&#8217;, this site informs us. Another essay writing service; but whereas the &#8216;essay-scam&#8217; was almost charming in its feckless hysteria, this one oozes competence, guilt and pathetic self-justification. &#8216;Why this is not cheating&#8217;, it explains: If you buy one of our [...]]]></description>
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