One of the highlights of #CIEP2024@amyjschneider.bsky.social and getting a signed bookplate for my copy of her awesome book, but doing so as part of the same quiz team! (Unfortunately the quiz was general knowledge with a whole round on sports, rather than style guides!)

Home and tired after #CIEP2024, I’ve just remembered that the hot topic after last year’s conference was… the light switches 😆 Here’s Kia’s amazing thread so you can laugh at it all over again 🤣🤣

KTkwthomasbooks.bsky.socialSep 12, 2023 3:26pm

Just checked my camera roll to see if I actually managed to take any pictures of #CIEP2023, and it turns out I did, but they are mostly of... light switches? So allow me, in my exhausted delirium, to share the tale of the Crystal Maze-level task of turning on a bloody light in that hotel room.

Goodbye #ciep2024@geckoedit.bsky.social and me talk about editing games! (Here we are looking very proud, and slightly bleary-eyed, just beforehand!)

English is just weird. Gold star for that. 🌟 #CIEP2024

Good thread by @nicolabigwood.uk@lynneguist.bsky.social#language#lexicalisation#CIEP2024

Sorry, @robdrummond.bsky.social#CIEP2024

Super chuffed (and very surprised!) to have won a fiction editing course for #CPD#CIEP2024#edibuddies#CIEP2025! 😎

So, what’s a word? Are you bilingual or do you just speak 2 languages? Are ‘colour’ & ‘color’ variants of same word, or 2 different words? ‘We pay £5’ is 3 words in writing, but 4 in speech. Is a grammatical error only an error because it has a name? Embrace uncertainty not pedantry! 4/4 #CIEP2024

Word choice still matters. We may have similar words but the fact that they're separate words also signals that they may mean something different. (It'll depend on context.) Prof. Lynne Murphy, closing lecture #CIEP2024

Embrace uncertainty in our work as editors. Don't end up in a category fight :) Prof. Lynne Murphy, closing lecture #CIEP2024