"I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @……" — Constance Hale
"I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @ is called chiocciola (snail) in Italian! The & was once taught as a letter of the alphabet! The manicule has been with us for a millennium! Thank you, Keith Houston, for bringing these little mysteries out of the shadows of typographic history."
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14 Quotes by Constance Hale
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Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's…
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Verbose is not a synonym for literary.
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Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is…
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Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.
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Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as…
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A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless…
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Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the…
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There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and…
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Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news…
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Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and…
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In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can…
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Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.
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I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them…
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental…
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I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that…
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As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment,…
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I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet.
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The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the…
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
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P.S. - This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.
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It's the Roman numeral for 10. 5/5/89 is my birthday: 5 plus 5 is 10, and this is my tenth…
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