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Karen Yin
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#Author: The Conscious Style Guide from Little, Brown Spark (2024) and several children's books. [bridged from mstdn.social/@karenyin on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy/ ]
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I was not expecting this footnote in the new Chicago Manual of Style. Thank you, editors of #CMOS18#ConsciousLanguage [Original post on mstdn.social]

Screenshot with "The Chicago Manual of Style" in black on yellow, with "Online" in red beneath it. To the right of this block of color is an entry: 5: Grammar and Usage > 5.255: Making Conscious Choices. The footnote reads, "Here we draw on the term 'conscious language' as used by Karen Yin, founder of the Conscious Style Guide website (see bibliog. 1.4)."
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Hi, #ReadingCommunity#ConsciousStyleGuide [Original post on mstdn.social]

Graphic with white background features the navy-blue cover of The Conscious Style Guide. At the top: “Change the way you think about inclusive language.” To the right of the cover: “Also available as an ebook and an audiobook” and the Little, Brown Spark logo, an S shaped like a sunburst.
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#ICYMI#ConsciousLanguage Newsletter includes: • Why We Shouldn’t Call Trump a “Criminal” • Stop Saying “Conservative” When You Mean Fascist • Words Such as Racist Slurs Can Literally Hurt—Here’s the Science ✅ Read and subscribe […]

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#AmEditing#GUMmyStuff As reference to a non-binary individual who uses they/them, "themself" is correct. Recall that "you" was originally plural, is now either plural or singular, and has two reflexive pronouns to match (yourselves, yourself). It's only a matter of time until "themself" is […]

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Karen Yin
@karenyin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
#Author: The Conscious Style Guide from Little, Brown Spark (2024) and several children's books. [bridged from mstdn.social/@karenyin on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy/ ]
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