Which is correct, "inalienable" or "unalienable"?
This aposite quiz for this particular alien romances blog is posed by legal blogger
Elizabeth Scott Moïse writing for Nelson Mullins Riley and Scarborough LLP. in a fascinating article about the origins of the O.E.D.
https://www.nelsonmullins.com/idea_exchange/insights/the-scrivener-word-up
or
There are many more multiple choice vocabulary perfection tests, so please check it out.
Also worth reading: the argument presented by Authors Guild on why permissionless captioning is wrong and dangerous and not in the interests of culture and authors' rights.
https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/the-authors-guild-files-friend-of-the-court-brief-in-audible-captions-case/
Any traditionally published author, who has spent multiple hours striving with copy editors, editors and proof readers to perfect spelling, punctuation and grammar will understand how distressing it could be to see well-crafted script reduced to phonetically generated "captions". Any reasonably well read person who has turned on the captions function on television should see the potential problems.
AG is most persuasive.
Finally, and nothing to do with Sp/P/G, the 2015 Fresh Fiction hack has something in common with Groundhog Day. No matter how many times one changes ones passwords, it seeems, the hacks persist.
If you are not actively videoconferencing with someone, cover up the camera eye. Then, when/if you receive a well-written email from a shady someone trying to prove their bona fides by revealing your latest Fresh Fiction password, you will be less likely to believe that they truly have infected your device and taken naked pictures of you. Don't even open that email.
All the best,
Rowena Cherry
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