You say sidewalk, I say pavement

[adderslj]

As I work through these redlines, I can't help but be amused at the differences between British and American English. Often it's in phraseology as much as word choice. After four or five years of getting redlines from Americans, it still makes me smile.

There was one particular occasion when a developer was really sarcastic about something I wrote that made perfect sense in the Queen's English. I got a particularly satisfying apology for that once the misunderstanding became clear.

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[nagaina-ryuuoh.livejournal.com]

One day I'll completely eliminate the use of passive voice from my writing and tame my addiction to em-dashes (which has been getting a lot better since the first draft of Road of Sin</> actually), and Matt will simply have to start picking on something else. ^_^