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i work at a public broadcaster, helping tend to its style guide and pronunciation database

Sydney, New South Wales
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Joined April 2011
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    31 Aug 2017

    reminder the ABC has a large, publicly-accessible database of place and people names (and how to pronounce them)

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  2. 29 minutes ago

    great to see dictionary editors interviewed alongside linguists in the popular press

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  3. 30 minutes ago

    Are you a purist or evolutionist? What your language 'pet peeve' reveals about you - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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    1 hour ago
    Replying to

    "Jarryd Hayne's 114kg, 18-year-old cousin"

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  5. 2 hours ago
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    “deluded brownlow medal crasher”

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  6. Retweeted
    4 hours ago

    Trying to imagine what sort of financial freedom it would take to not notice I had not been charged $2700 in flights until someone pointed it out to me

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    2 hours ago

    I am off to see Green Book today, trying to keep an open mind, but I was always slightly offended they chose a Scandinavian to play a goombah role, when there are so many other actors - Michael Imperioli, Tony Danza - who could have fit the bill.

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  8. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    Hey , can you fix this? Seems like the score you’re using for word pair similarity is accidentally encouraging gender biases. Changing your model to read gender specific pronouns as gender neutral might help.

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  9. 3 hours ago

    people built kings landing in minecraft or whatever? i don't care, i want to play as flea and fight sharks

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  10. 3 hours ago

    it's 2019 how has nobody recreated the video clip for californication using like the GTA engine already

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  11. 3 hours ago

    not even the cure's website can agree on whether the band name is singular or plural

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  12. 3 hours ago

    it's because australia isn't real

    Do you know what’s weird? In no 007 movie has Bond ever come to Australia, mentioned it or even run his finger over it on a map. He’s been everywhere.He went to Kazakhstan twice. He went to friggin space in Moonraker. But never Australia. It’s like we don’t exist in that universe
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  13. 3 hours ago

    lol @ the ap stylebook

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  14. Retweeted
    Feb 17

    martina navratilova is right, im so sick of all these men pretending to be trans in order to get all the benefits that come with being trans??? and also the riches and glory of being a female athlete???

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    4 hours ago

    It’s now one month since Australian citizen Yang Hengjun was taken by state security officers upon arriving in China. He’s being held in a secret location in Beijing, accused of endangering state security. Neither his wife nor lawyers have been allowed to visit him.

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    4 hours ago

    Chinese language news now in print at Vanuatu Daily Post newspaper via

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    4 hours ago

    Adani's lawyers' strategy — where they frame themselves as 'attack dogs' engaged in a 'war'— includes: *Going after activists *Pressuring government *Bankrupting Indigenous opponents *Going after ABC journalists Not surprising, but desperately concerning

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  18. 4 hours ago

    apres nous, le deluge! etc

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  19. 4 hours ago

    ANTEDILUVIAN, a great descriptor for anything old-fashioned, has a good etymology, too: literally 'before' (ante) + 'the flood' (diluvium)

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    19 hours ago

    This is a confronting case involving a woman who agreed to perform a sex show at a Darwin buck's night, but says one of the party-goers horrifically violated her. It's coming down to the legal definition, in the Northern Territory, of consent.

    'Mental element' of consent at issue in buck's night beer-bottle rape trial, court told via
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  21. 5 hours ago

    Maine now holds the world record for simultaneous moose-calling

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