Chiang Mai, Thailand, at some ungodly hour a.m. and I’m fresh off an overnight bus. It’s mid-November, at the start of the Yi Peng lantern festival, and the tourists are taking over. …

The following comes from a segment in the UX Writing Academy’s training program called Lexically Speaking. In it, we explore the writing aspects of UX writing — grammar, style, mechanics, typography and more. The year is 1776. The place, Philadelphia. A young Virginian has been tasked with drafting a document…