As an editor, I help people say what they mean--and not say what they don’t mean. Here are some common not-quite-right words or expressions that I often see. This is not to embarrass anybody--I've made many of these mistakes myself. Please share your favorite fixes at the end of the thread. (1/n)

I’d take their offer of absolutely free service 🫠

Nothing here but surprisingly lots of likes on some posts from what seems like spam accounts 🤔

@willsmith.fun episode 249. Microwave power. Almost all modern microwaves you can start then press power and number. Saves on button presses. 30sec + 30 sec + p + 7. 4 button presses for 1 min. And yes 70% is the way of life!

Seems like a good thing for everything to be “smart” and compatible with variable voltage

@willsmith.fun Lostening to ep. 247, surprised that there is no love for GIMP as photoshop replacement. And I think one of the great features in Notepad++ is keyword color coding when you open source files, I do my shell scripting on Windows in NP++ because if this (nano on Linux)

Probably some TI-86 game that even I dont remember 😄

You know my first thought when I saw their ‘AI’ convert a 3 liner party info? “Great, instead of reading 3 lines of information I as the recipient have to read a paragraph to get the same information.” My SO immediately said, “that’s an SNL sketch”, a guy sounds eloquent in text, then you meet him.

I’m excited about satellite texting. Oh no, not from my iPhone. From competition in the space and Garmin (pretty good) solutions becoming cheaper. When you are sailing across Atlantic ⛵️ you need communication. Best of all 20 years from now we’ll just always text via satellite without batting an eye.

That makes more sense! If they did not retrofit after transferring from Virgin it’s probably from French company Thales. Modern (last 15y or so) outlets from us have a light (green/red), red light while mid flight results in bug reports. It happens, but usually because of some non standard situation