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In "Cyberculture"
If you're older than about 38, words and phrases like "frotz," "xyzzy," "maze of twisty passages all alike," and "eaten by a grue" trigger sharp remembrance, like Marcel Proust eating a madeleine. You'll instantly reminisce about text games like Infocom's Deadline, Suspended, Infidel, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, and a zillion…
In "Aesthetics"
Students who are learning news writing for the first time sometimes overuse phrases like "so-and-so told reporters" or "when asked about X, so-and-so said..." Readers only encounter those phrases in journalism, so when students are new to news writing, they tend to reach for these phrases (and similar ones such…
In "Education"