Here’s a word that seems to be awfully confusing to native speakers of English, Macedonian and Albanian: “corps.” If you are starting a new organization or agency, I’d urge you to avoid using the word “corps” in its name because I guarantee a lot of people will get the name wrong. I’ve witnessed many instances… Read More: English confusion »
An interesting thing about Albanian is that the names of occupations all seem to be gendered. (At least I haven’t yet learned of any exceptions.) A teacher or professor is “profesor” if male and “profesoreshë” if female. An accountant is “kontabilist” if male and “kontabiliste” if female. It got me thinking a bit about how… Read More: Gendered occupational names »
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m in an Albanian-speaking area of the country. So far, all my language classes have been in Macedonian, which presents some challenges. For one thing, I don’t get practice in the language I’m studying; for another thing, I have trouble understanding the words spoken around me when I go out. I… Read More: Albanian Alphabet Day »
Nothing really big going on here, but wanted to share some photos. One interesting thing I’ve learned recently is that Latin America also uses the style manual of the American Psychological Association for many academic papers. A lot of the APA manual has to do with how to use English, which obviously doesn’t apply for… Read More: Feb. 10, 2022 »
I mentioned in my post about my new editing business that I’d have to learn a new style manual. I began writing an explanation of what a style manual is for the benefit of folks unfamiliar with that, then realized it was getting long and it probably ought to be a separate post. A style… Read More: What’s a Style Manual? »
I’m starting a business again. And I’m confident that it will go a lot more smoothly than the last time I did so, starting The Elizabethtown Advocate in 2010. As publisher of a weekly newspaper, I spent around $700 every week to print and distribute the paper. The cost of the office (rent, the electric… Read More: New Business »