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This detailed, example-driven guide illustrates how much you can do to make written texts more suitable for a global audience. Accompanied by an abundance of clearly explained examples, the Global English guidelines show you how to write documentation that is optimized for non-native speakers of English, translators, and even machine-translation software, as well as for native speakers of English. You'll find dozens of guidelines that you won't find in any other source, along with thorough explanations of why each guideline is useful. The author also includes revision strategies, as well as caveats that will help you avoid applying guidelines incorrectly.
Focusing primarily on sentence-level stylistic issues, problematic grammatical constructions, and terminology issues, this book addresses the following topics: ways to simplify your writing style and make it consistent; ambiguities that most writers and editors are not aware of, and how to eliminate those ambiguities; how to make your sentence structure more explicit so that your sentences are easier for native and non-native speakers to read and understand; punctuation and capitalization guidelines that improve readability and make translation more efficient; and howlanguage technologies such as controlled-authoring software can facilitate the adoption of Global English as a corporate standard.
This text is intended for anyone who uses written English to communicate technical information to a global audience. Technical writers, technical editors, science writers, and training instructors are just a few of the professions for which this book is essential reading. Even if producing technical information is not your primary job function, the Global English guidelines can help you communicate more effectively with colleagues around the world.
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Steve Berman
reviewed The Global English Style Guide on October 11, 2019
The Global English Style Guide
Glory of glories! A book about dead words! HUZZAH!
Some English words are no longer used. Jeffrey Kacirk poured through old dictionaries and found some gems. Let's go already!!! --->>>
Roozles: Wretchedness of mind; the "miserables".
Quanked: Overpowered by fatigue.
Spermologer: A picker-up of trivia, of current news; a gossip-monger; what we today would call a columnist.
Beblubbered: Swollen.
Puke-stocking: "Wilt thou rob this…puke-stocking [knave]?" 1 Henry IV Here, puke-stocking probably means dark-coloured, perhaps equivalent to puce. That it describes the material of the stocking or hose is less likely.
A few of the words have died, but been reborn…or maybe I mean reincarnated. Have a look...
Spooning: Spooning, in rowing, is dipping the oars so little in the water as merely to skim the surface.
All sorts: A slang term designating the drippings of glasses in saloons, collected and sold at half-price to drinkers who are not overly particular.
Some words could use a more detailed or clearer definition:
Special-bastard: A child born of parents before marriage, the parties afterwards intermarrying.
Spoops: At Harvard College, a weak, silly fellow, or one who is disliked on account of his foolish actions is called spoops, or spoopsy.
Biggening: Uprising of women. SEE Crying-cheese.
All righty…
Crying-cheese: Cheese given to neighbors and visitors on the occasion of the birth of a child.
…and that helped clear up biggening how?
Whereas some words mean just what you suspect (E.G. Egg-wife-trott: An easy jog, such a speed as farmers' wives carry their eggs to the market.), others do NOT (E.G. Babyshed: Deceived by childish tales. [I was sure it meant a place where babies were kept.]
The Word Museum is…scrumtrulescent! A must-read for wordies!
Rating Note: This is a ridiculous 5 stars. This book is not perfect. It's not even great. But it's just right for me, because I like words.
Here's a crusty old video I just re-uploaded for this review. It's of me reading and reenacting some of the words within this book.
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