80:20 is a member of the Airline Public Relations Organisation (APRO), a networking group for airline and travel PRs and journalists. Last night we attended the latest APRO networking drinks, kindly sponsored by Qatar Airways. Essential facts discovered as a result:
Buying Business Travel has a new editor starting soon;
Andy Hoskins, deputy editor of The Business Travel Magazine, supports the same football team as our own Barry Dunstall (Brighton & Hove Albion – God bless ‘em); and,
despite the best efforts of Low-Fare & Regional Airlines editor Bernie Baldwin, Marc will never ‘get’ the thrill of being a football fan, not even of AFC Wimbledon.
As you no doubt remember fondly from your schooldays, the infinitive is essentially the basic version of a verb, such as “to eat” or “to speak”. There is a very long-established convention, also familiar to every schoolchild, that the infinitive must always be preserved and never be ‘split’. Adverbs, this convention says, can gather respectfully around the infinitive but must never intrude into the middle, so that “to eat slowly” is fine but “to slowly eat” is forbidden. (more…)
People will remember 2010 for many reasons. We saw a coalition government in the UK for the first time since 1945. England’s footballers went to the World Cup in South Africa and barely had time to unpack their boots before coming home again. An unpronounceable volcano in Iceland threw a hissy fit and caused chaos throughout Europe. Something interesting must have happened in Nebraska. But here at the 80:20 Communications ‘Express Yourself’ desk, we kept our eyes on the world of grammar, spelling and punctuation. And we didn’t like what we saw. So for our first blog of 2011, here is our Top Five list of errors we spotted in the media world in 2010. Let’s make it our goal to banish these irritations into the history of last year. (more…)
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