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But the pull-quote still has its advocates, who say it can break up a wall of text and draw attention to a line that might have been skimmed over. The latter argument was pushed to an extreme in a ...
When we moved from being a print newspaper to a digital one, we naturally had to let go of conventions that worked on paper but didn’t translate to the new medium. Some that were kept are ...
When we moved from being a print newspaper to a digital one, we naturally had to let go of conventions that worked on paper but didn’t translate to the new medium. Some that were kept are ...
In the text of the report, we said that the actual increase in E coli in the Serpentine Lido in Hyde Park, London, was “1,188.8 per cent”. Giving a test-sample figure to five significant figures is an ...
We sometimes use percentages greater than 100, but they do not generally help the reader, unless we are quoting a footballer who says he “gave it 110 per cent”. We had this headline on Thursday: ...
Ron Hart, a libertarian syndicated op-ed humorist, worked at Goldman Sachs and is an award-winning author and TV/radio commentator. He can be reached at [email protected], or visit www.RonaldHart ...
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Mea Culpa: Struggling to recall - MSNBut the pull-quote still has its advocates, who say it can break up a wall of text and draw attention to a line that might have been skimmed over. The latter argument was pushed to an extreme in a ...
Monday was mea culpa day for the high-dollar group of lawyers in Huntsville who were caught using generative AI – badly – to cite sources that did not exist or did not say the things they ...
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Voices: Mea Culpa: ‘He gave it 1,188 per cent’ - MSNMea Culpa: ‘He gave it 1,188 per cent’ - Our chief pedant, John Rentoul, wrestles with some murky figures in last week’s Independent ...
EXISTENTIALISM LATEST DYING TO DEBATE: MPs spent another few hours haggling over amendments to the assisted dying bill and (surprise, surprise) there was no sign of the process getting any less ...
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