2008-12-18T22:03:00-05:00 What’s new with Joe Clark’s book about Canadian English spelling tag:en-ca.org,2008:T2008.12handoff Joe Clark 2008-12-18T22:03:00-05:00 2008-12-18T22:03:00-05:00 tag:updates,2008:handoff1 <ul><li>Carried out my first under-table handoff of a CD-ROM copy of the book to a paying reader.</li> <li>Version 1.1 coming in a few days, ostensibly.</li> </ul> Joe Clark 2008-11-08T09:25:00-05:00 2008-11-08T09:25:00-05:00 tag:buy,2008:etoile1 <p>…in an <a href="http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/532174" title="Canadese: Spellchecked into oblivion?">article</a> in the <cite>Toronto Star</cite>. According to an academic from my alma mater, Canadians have a superiority complex over Americans and the Internet exposes all readers to denationalized English. </p> <p> If there were a rational proposal to replace Canadian English spellings with some other country’s, yes, we would feel superior to Americans and insist on British (even though we actually speak American English). But my empirical data show that, even with exposure to multiple English-language spelling traditions, even “Internet” spelling of Canadian English is indistinguishable from professionally-edited spellings or any other variety. </p> <p> I’m so accustomed to the pop linguistics of blogs that I had almost forgotten how easily Ph.D. linguists can miss the point. </p> Joe Clark 2008-11-07T09:25:00-05:00 2008-11-07T09:25:00-05:00 tag:buy,2008:oeil1 Ostensibly, <cite>OOMN</cite> will be covered in next week’s print issue. Joe Clark 2008-10-30T00:22:01-05:00 2008-11-01T13:25:01-05:00 tag:buy,2008:tubby1 <a href="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/toronto/archive/2008/10/29/my-toronto-joe-clark.aspx" title="My Toronto: Joe Clark">Mention in the Tubby.</a> Mostly about Leslieville, but still. <a href="http://blog.fawny.org/2008/10/30/redman/" title="Not the Hell’s">More about the photo shoot.</a> (We did it behind the Hell’s Angels!) Joe Clark 2008-10-27T17:22:01-05:00 2008-10-21T12:22:01-05:00 tag:buy,2008:photos1 A <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeclark/collections/72157608422633581/" title="OOMN at Flickr">blizzard of new photos of Canadian spelling in the wild</a>, and a blizzard of press interviews that will, one hopes, finally garner some coverage. Joe Clark 2008-10-21T12:22:02-05:00 2008-10-21T12:22:02-05:00 tag:buy,2008:torontoist1 Book has been <a href="http://torontoist.com/2008/10/joe_clark_organizing_our_marvellous_neighbours.php" title="Joe Clark’s got a brand-new book">reviewed</a> “on the Torontoist.” Joe Clark 2008-10-12T14:59:00-05:00 2008-10-12T14:59:00-05:00 tag:buy,2008:data2errata3 Results from literary award-winners (<a href="http://en-ca.org/dataliterary-award-winners-081012.xls" title="XLS: Results from literary award-winners" type="application/ms-excel">Excel worksheet only</a>). Joe Clark 2008-10-11T14:59:00-05:00 2008-10-11T14:59:00-05:00 tag:buy,2008:data2errata2 Spellchecker test sentences and a couple o’ clunkers. Joe Clark 2008-10-06T17:02:00-05:00 2008-10-06T17:02:00-05:00 tag:buy,2008:data1 I’m living up to my pledge to publish my source data …slowly. And I’m starting with something easy – <a rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://en-ca.org/data/spellchecker/">spellchecker test sentences</a>. Joe Clark 2008-10-04T14:44:00-05:00 2008-10-05T14:44:00-05:00 tag:buy,2008:busy1w <ul> <li>I have an immediate goal of 100 sales and a later goal of 550. I’m at about 55 now – and you all have my thanks. I also ginned up a single-column iPhone version if anybody wants it.</li> <li>A few reviews and mentions: <a href="http://tripping.seeto.com/archives/596" title="Genuine Canadian English">Tripping</a>, <a href="http://adactio.com/journal/1515/" title="Reading Immaterial">Adactio</a> (it’s really just for Canadians, Jeremy – but I appreciate it), <a href="http://cephalogenic.blogspot.com/2008/09/scribble.html" title="Scribble">Cephalogenic</a>.</li> <li>An <a href="/errata/" title="Errata">errata page</a> is <del datetime="2008-10-05T14:44:00-05:00">going up shortly</del> <ins datetime="2008-10-05T14:44:00-05:00">now posted</ins>. There are more errors than I’d like, but then again, zero errors (the amount I’d like) are unattainable.</li> <li>Track people’s <a href="http://delicious.com/url/3eb4a75652a0ba4139a7ae1bf6e9d920;_ylt=%0DA0wNB9L2Od5IbygBhThjRh54;_ylv=3" title="Delicious bookmark">comments</a> via Delicious. Also: <a href="http://projects.metafilter.com/1732/" title="MeFi Projects listing">MeFi Projects</a>.</li> </ul> <p> I have only barely begun to “market” the book via the mainstream media. In other words, you haven’t read about me in the paper or seen me on TV yet. </p> <p> Now, what the hell is Oxford University Press doing <a href="http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=be424ee5-f010-4cdf-a6a0-f91957483092" title="Canadian Oxford closing">shitcanning its entire dictionary division</a>? Who the hell is going to write these wonderfully profitable online dictionaries? Old farts in England? I don’t think so. </p> Joe Clark 2008-09-25T15:09:00-05:00 2008-09-25T15:09:00-05:00 tag:buy,2008:onstale Finally. Buy this electronic book on Canadian English spelling for $17.83 (Canadian)