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The editors' desk
Five regular writers share the work. Each byline links to everything that writer has filed.
Corinne writes about proofreading routines: the final pass, keeping spellings consistent across long documents, and checking the writing in CVs and letters. She reads her own drafts aloud more often than she admits.
Kenji covers the machine side of Japanese text: IME conversion, character sets, full-width and half-width forms, keyboards and the tools that show what a checker can and cannot catch.
Marta is a long-time learner of Japanese who writes about the grammar and usage points that cause the most rewrites, from keigo in email to mixed sentence styles, and about the textbooks that got her there.
Rhys writes about reviewing translations between Japanese and English: names, numbers, register, loanwords and the small omissions a second reader is there to find.
Aiko writes about kanji and kana choices, okurigana, numbers in running text, handwriting and manuscript paper, and the books that help with all of them.