Grammar

interesting facts about language, etc.

•Chinese names are often formatted as family name first, then given name.

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one important function of the comma is its use in what’s called the vocative case, or when someone (or something—sometimes life gets lonely) is being addressed directly.

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“Standard practice in entertainment coverage is never to capitalize a job title except when it starts a sentence. The same goes for every position on a movie set: ‘director Martin Scorsese,’ ‘screenwriter Tina Fey,’ etc.

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Repeat after me: If we speak that way, it’s okay to write that way.

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Italicize titles of films, but use roman type for franchises in the general sense or when they act as a descriptor: “He has tons of Star Wars memorabilia”

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a person who transitions to become female is a transgender woman, whereas a person who transitions to become male is a transgender man.

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Use italics for news websites and blogs (essentially anything that produces regular, dated content and is in other words analogous to a newspaper or magazine), and quotation marks for articles;

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The em dash will shine bright, however, if you’re indicating a break in thought, aiming for an emphatic pause, or setting off an aside that’s a step above being relegated to parentheses.