SWET Newsletter, Number 22

Looking Good in the 1980s: Contemporary Publication Design [workshop announcement]

Leader: Dana Levy

Translators at Work [report: translation seminar]

Panelists: Frank Baldwin, Chris Brockett, Lynne Riggs, Fred Uleman

A Grammar Glossary [English/Japanese grammar terms]

1984 Japanese Bestsellers [Japanese-language top 20 books, various genres]

JAT News (FMU) (ref: CC) ]report: organizational meeting]

The SWETStars (YS) (ref: JMcC, MH) [meeting report: WordStar users group; CPM, freeware]

News for Book Addicts (PE) [bookstore recommendation]

Questionable [meanings of editor question marks]

On Borrowed Time (LT) [ethics of consulting colleagues]

SWET Annual Beer Party!! [announcement]

Small Screen Blues [computer display risks]

Book Service Notices [information re rules, procedure, questions, complaints]

Howzzat Again? or Balancing Act [parallel construction]

On Punctuation [purpose, nature; sentence with 11 hads]

Book Mavin at Work: To Hack or Not to Hack [reviews]

Books: Wordstar and CP/M Made Easy; CP/M Bible; The CP/M Handbook with MP/m; Soul of CP/M; Mastering CP/M; Inside CP/M: A Guide for Users and Programmers

A Book Mavin Bonus [reviews]

Books: Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography; The Newsletter Editor's Desk Book; Harper's English Grammar

The Guest Mavin [book reviews]

Clear Technical Writing (WR)

A Guide to Korean Characters (KJ)

Say Again? [errors/oddities]

Computer Expert's "Glossary" [humorous definitions of computer terms]

Book Service Update [book ordering progress]

What's the Good Word? (FMU) [idioms with hidari, chikai, toi]

Ask the Publishing Hexpert [newsletter print legibility]

SWET Glossary Bank [list of currently available glossaries]

Rabbit Danchi Revisited [proper translation of danchi]

Last Names First [name order]

Name Order Note [capitalization]

Between the Lines [problems of sexist language]

Super SWET Publications [ordering instructions]

Japan Style Sheet; Proofreader's Special.

The Translation Hexpert [translation of seppuku and hara kiri]

They Like Our Style [report: external review of Japan Style Sheet]

The SWET Bestsellers [top 20 books ordered to date]

Directory Update

Changes/Corrections/Additions

New Members

What Is SWET? [organization description]

SWETshop Previews [future workshops: indexing, electronic publishing]

Please Be Reserved [workshop preregistration]

Contest for Word Mavins [Verbatim, The Language Quarterly call for articles]