@6d868116 🤣 

 @5187bdd0 Sigh. I’ll never understand what is wrong with people. 

 @f5e4a8bb Wow, what a sad story. 

 @ce37034b I'm getting ready to record an interview, and right before I saw your post, I heard a truck drive by and thought, "Noooo .... not the gardeners!" (I think it was someone else, and I'm safe for now.) 

 @787c481a I'd still change it if I were editing, but just a couple of days ago, I used "sunk" for "sank" when talking to Pat and then thought, "Wait, that's wrong." 

I went through the triplet in my mind — sink, sank, have sunk — and shrugged. 

 @cbcf1c30 Glad to hear it! 

 @6597003c I was thinking about that too. 

If I were still posting to Twitter, I'd make sure my images included the headlines. But then people using screen readers can't see them unless you add alt text, which unfortunately, many people don't do. 

 @f2adfbd9 Thanks for taking the time to let me know! Mastodon is still my favorite post-Twitter platform. 

 @f85eab2e It does! Its scent is its claim to fame. 

 @a7595654 Yes! One is fine. My post was prompted by a Zillow listing Pat showed me in which every upper cabinet had a glass door. What were they thinking? 

 @689c1762 I've met a couple of other Mignons in my life, but not many. 

 @e814e036 The last 5 or six words of our alert switched to Spanish. 

 @9febe203 Thanks, but it was fine. I didn't take it that way. I love learning that there's such a cute a name for it. 

 @e4f49b46 Ha! I've certainly had "conversations" with my husband where he doesn't say a word, and then I find the solution I need and say, "Thanks for the advice," and we laugh. 

 @723a97f9 Thanks! That could be helpful.

It has certainly occurred to me that maybe I'm just bad at writing prompts. 

 @9febe203 Cool! I have heard of that concept, but I didn't know there is a name for it. 

 @08faeda1 That's explained in the article, but no. 

 @76a5bd4e Thanks! I had fun writing it. 

 @3971baee A quick check of a British dictionary makes me believe "sanction" has both its opposite meanings in British English too.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/sanction 

 @cc5dcdba I remember that story. It's a good one. I'm a few weeks ahead on the show right now, but I'll see if I can squeeze it in somewhere. 

 @7495b45a Interesting. You're the second person to tell me you'd search Wikipedia. Do you find that Google misses things that are in Wikipedia these days? 

 @74fb078d Good one. 

 @bb1a99d2 @5a1631f1 That was a great read about ligatures! 

 @f7ce9f58 Good point. 

 @787c481a Adding them to my list! 

 @f5e4a8bb It's the mixture of straight and smart apostrophes that she looks for, not just straight ones alone. Sorry if that wasn't clear! 

 @5a1631f1 Interesting! Thank you. 

 @06ce722b Yes, some of it can happen when you move text around between platforms. 

I have problems with curly and straight quotation marks when I paste text between Google Docs and Apple Pages. It's a sign to investigate more if you aren't sure of the source — certainly not an absolute sign of plagiarism. 

 If you have other tips like this, please let me know! I'm going to write it up after I play with these a bit myself.

3/x 

 2. Look for straight apostrophes in a document that otherwise has "smart" apostrophes. This can be a sign of pasted text. (Credit: Karen Wise)

3. Look for spaces that become nonbreaking (shown by a little degree symbol instead of a dot). Another sign of pasted text. (Credit: Karen Wise)

When they see these flags, they start pasting text into Google to see if it's on some website.

2/x 

 @e4f49b46 Ah, thank you! That's helpful. 

 @f5e4a8bb Thanks! 

 @2388cc31 Thanks! I have a little side project I want to experiment with and wouldn't want to pay a monthly fee for at this point, and I don't want to invest time in setting it up if it's not going to be what I want in two weeks. 

 @88b449c5 @769e49b5 I know! Limiting self-published authors to uploading *only* 3 books a day still seems ridiculously high if you are trying to limit AI writers. 

Can there really be that many legitimate writers who are uploading 3 books a day? Maybe people who are representing a bunch of self-published writers, but then I'd think they'd have a different kind of account. 

 @7725718e Yikes! Glad they at least could save it. 

 @9c709c25 I've been doing as much as I can (holding my coffee mug, pushing the microwave buttons, etc.) with my other hand. 

 @03caab0e Ha! Long, long ago, I worked for an insurance broker, and one of my tasks was explaining disability benefits to company employees, so I'm familiar with the concept of different prices for different parts of the body. But I've never seen the finger schedule. 

 @052015b1 Yours, by far. 

 @052015b1 One benefit of Claude versus ChatGPT is you can enter much more text into Claude (something like 75,000 words versus 4,000 characters). So if you want to summarize a long document or look for something in a long document, Claude is the way to go. 

 @616ec859 Thank you! That kind of problem came up too! I forget what the point was, but in the first draft, early in the book I had written something one way, and near the end of the book, I had talked about the style choice and made the opposite recommendation.

The copy editor caught it. 

 @6478a264 Happy birthday! 

 @1d287159 It's a great trick. I do that with almost everything I write. 

 @62a493c7 Interesting! 

 @5a1631f1 🤣 

 And yes, I'm procrastiresearching.