Terrorized by typos? Turns out they’re so confoundingly common that researchers at the Cambridge-connected MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit have been investigating the issue. Here’s a hint about what they found: “The huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.” Ponder this and you’ll earn the bonus more »
With the observation that the internet has made writers and publishers of us all, our dramatic friends at Copyblogger.com recently made a catchy-yet-creepy claim that modifiers and adverbs weaken writing so much that they’re the equivalent of “dangerous bloodsuckers” that deserve the same brutal treatment as vampires in the path of Abe Lincoln’s ax. If more »
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