Seeking experienced English native-speaker editors who are meticulous (even obsessive!) about their syntax and grammar for large, long-term project involving the editing of daily instalments of technical material. Interested? Please DM me with your email for more information.

The definitive industry analysis for 2019 is here: nimdzi.com/2019-nimdzi-10… #l10n #i18n #1nt

English editors! If you have difficulty sending me a DM (because I don't follow you), please don't hesitate to mail me at [email protected] for further details. #xl8

English editors! If you are unable to DM me (because I don't follow you) then please drop me a line at [email protected] for more information. #xl8

Thanks to Jasmine Rabuñal, JennDeLaRésistance, Dr. Alejandro García Aragón Marie Titova, Irene Fried Ana Belén Martínez, Curri Barcelo, Alberoni Translations, Belinda Rule A clusterfuck of internalized chaos, Lire Écrire Traduire, comorbidity city, @mrsdivicom, Ana Belén Martínez and @mrsdivicom for the RTs about the English editing work. Appreciated!

Atlas of endangered alphabets - a beautiful site devoted to indigenous and minority writing systems, and the people who are trying to save them bit.ly/2IUW4jW

New Zealand: Ask our elected representatives to ban semiautomatic weapons our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/ban-… via Marc “Action” Jackson

NYTimes: Did Dietary Changes Bring Us ‘F’ Words? Did agriculture foster the arrival of new sounds in human #language? New study published in #Science. buff.ly/2Fhm84J #linguistics

New Zealand Passes Law Banning Most Semiautomatic Weapons, Weeks After Massacre via @NYTimes nyti.ms/2UQKGdK?smid=n…

Five ways to minimize the risk of not getting paid bit.ly/2G3OMFT via @corinnemckay #xl8

Presidential contender Pete Buttigieg is not only a polyglot (Norwegian, Spanish, Italian, Maltese, Arabic, Farsi, & French), but is also an accomplished musician. Here he is performing Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with his local symphony orchestra.

WaPo: Nearly half of white Republicans say it bothers them to hear people speaking foreign languages. washingtonpost.com/business/2019/…

WaPo: The new rules of punctuation are unbelievable. Period. buff.ly/32mQZqh

NYTimes: "Parlez-Vous Anglais? Yes, of Course." Is the fact that Europeans are increasingly speaking perfect English a threat to the English-speaking world? To me this was a sort of (shocking) glimpse into the future - well worth a read for #xl8rs. buff.ly/31uHV19

I just donated to Wikipedia. Please consider doing the same. donate.wikimedia.org/?utm_medium=So…

The case against Mark Zuckerberg: Insiders say Facebook’s CEO chose growth over safety washingtonpost.com/technology/202… Headline says it all. Zuckerburg simply doesn't have ethics or human compassion in his personality. Time to curb his reckless & dangerous unbridled power.

A powerful piece by staunch defenders of liberal democracy who show how Bannonism-#Trumpism has set its sights on New Zealand. They exploit local social faultlines (e.g. anti-vax) by using the defence of personal freedoms as a facade. RT Richard Mayson bit.ly/337WfD8

How does Putin fall? Richard Mayson Dr. Geoffrey Miller د. جيفري ميلر 🇳🇿

New Zealanders: Here's how you can donate to NZ Red Cross Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis Appeal: bit.ly/3Jmpge8