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

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

Communication is conveying our categories to others. Miscommunication is when those categories don't match 🤔 Prof. Lynne Murphy, closing talk #CIEP2024

Yes, very true! (I wonder who got to eat it afterwards?!)

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

Words don’t always have a one-to-one relationship. Biscuit & cake are different, but definitions might blur if context is e.g. taxation rather than tea-break (looking at you, Jaffa Cakes! 😋). Chicken burger in US not same as UK (burger=ground meat vs. grilled savoury thing in a bun). 3/ #CIEP2024

We glean more info about something the more ways we describe it, as rightly or wrongly we associate meaning/sub-context with different words. In English, red & pink are different colours, but blue is blue (differentiated by light/dark adjectives), where other langs use distinct words. 2/ #CIEP2024

No such thing as a word, with @lynneguist.bsky.social#CIEP2024

You can't be too kind when you're communicating with the author :) Gerard M-F Hill, "Asking the author" #CIEP2024

AI doesn't know when to ignore "rules" - and writing and editing are about aesthetics. So AI is not going to replace human editors yet! Daniel Heuman, "Empowering multilingual writers: AI to support authors writing beyond their 1st language" #CIEP2024