Seamus

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I am a postdoc in philosophy.

I contribute to a blog for philosophers who use LaTeX. If you fall in to that niche, check it out: PhilTeX. (The blog will be of use to all kind of humanities scholars using LaTeX, I imagine, but it was started by, and is run by philosophers...) The blog is currently defunct, but may be resurrected soon.

I made this beamer colour change package that slowly changes the colour of structure elements of beamer presentations. Feedback welcome. I also made this moreenum package which adds new enumeration options. The TeX goodies page of my website includes some other bits and bobs I've done.

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Oct 11	comment	Is it acceptable to use “google” as a verb? Should "Google" be capitalised or not? My spellchecker thinks it should, but I disagree...
Oct 10	accepted	Is there a historical trend towards shorter sentences?
Oct 10	comment	Independance or Independence? You're fighting a losing battle. I refer you to this: english.stackexchange.com/questions/3723/…
Oct 8	comment	“That” or “which”? Does it matter? The title of this question, at least, suggests that this question is not about proper usage, but about if getting it wrong ever actually matters which I don't think it does. This would make it not a dupe.
Oct 7	comment	Whose usage determines correctness? Also, regarding the "in-group usage" being jargony, I don't think that's relevant in the case I brought up. It's still a very good point against in-group usage, though.
Oct 7	accepted	Whose usage determines correctness?
Oct 7	comment	Whose usage determines correctness? This is a good point, although it seems that most of these documents are press releases, and not actually the output of the institutions themselves. Still, I am surprised that the press office seems to use both adjectives more or less at random...
Oct 7	accepted	How to refer to “mainland Europe”
Oct 6	comment	Descriptivism and widespread misspelling @cindi I think, depressingly, "thru", "ur", "thier", "teh" will soon be candidates...
Oct 6	comment	Descriptivism and widespread misspelling God I hate "thru". I truly do.
Oct 6	comment	Descriptivism and widespread misspelling unrelated note: "a respected authority known for their descriptivism" Does anyone else find this construction odd? Surely an entity like Merriam Webster takes "its" rather than "his/her/their" as its possessive? Unless you're taking MW to be a collective body, in which case the singular "authority" seems misleading.
Oct 6	comment	Is the word “data” now considered singular, or still plural? As a side note, apparently in French it is sometimes insisted that "information" be used only as a singular. e.g. "les informations sont...".
Oct 6	asked	Descriptivism and widespread misspelling
Oct 5	comment	Why Isn't Citizen 'Citisen' in British English? I went to an Italian restaurant recently. I had pissa and some fissy water. Then I went to the soo to look at the sebra.
Oct 4	comment	How to refer to “mainland Europe” as a _short_hand for "mainland Europe" this doesn't work, as it's two syllables longer...
Oct 4	asked	How to refer to “mainland Europe”
Oct 3	awarded	Autobiographer
Oct 1	comment	What usage arguments are persuasive? Given your answer to a recent question of mine, I think you should clarify whether you mean correct usage or good usage.
Oct 1	comment	Whose usage determines correctness? If you're keen, one body of English language content that would reflect the relevant "in-group" usage would be the output of the European institutions (European Parliament, European Commission, European Court of Justice etc). But then, I'm not sure they don't have their own in-house style guide that might skew the statistics.
Oct 1	comment	Is there a historical trend towards shorter sentences? True enough. That's why I mentioned different styles. But even within academic philosophy writing (the style of writing I'm most familiar with) it's certainly true that sentences are shorter than they used to be.