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CONSISTENCY<\/span><\/h1><\/div>[vc_column_text text_style=”leader-text” animation=”fadeInRight” animation_delay=”150″]Comlexis makes sure that texts are consistent. What does that mean exactly?[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”50px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row section_type=”fullwidth” bg_type=”color” header_feature=”yes” equal_column_height=”middle-content” desktop_visibility=”hide” tablet_visibility=”hide” padding_top=”0″ padding_bottom=”0″][vc_column tablet_sm_width=”1″ css=”.vc_custom_1502456311164{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_empty_space height=”50″ css=”.vc_custom_1502457515545{background-color: #f7f7f7 !important;}”]
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\u201cInconsistent\u201d \u2013 our word for \u201cright each time, but still wrong\u201d<\/h3>\n

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Well, not really wrong, but also not quite right; careless, you might say, and not professional enough. This often results from the fact that two copywriters were involved in writing one text \u2013 or that it was pieced together out of several older texts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Comlexis tidies up: here, for example<\/h3>\n

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Typical examples of inconsistencies are abbreviations and units. It says for example<\/strong> in the first paragraph and e.g.<\/strong> in the second. Another classic is \u20ac<\/strong> next to EUR<\/strong> or Euro,<\/strong> %<\/strong> next to per cent,<\/strong> kWh<\/strong> next to kilowatt hour.<\/strong> And then there are hyphens: it\u2019s confusing when tin-foil, tinfoil<\/strong> and aluminium foil <\/strong>come across as multiple personalities, when in fact they are one and the same thing. And on it goes with numbers and figures: here there are three<\/strong> employees, there 4<\/strong> injection moulding plants, here twelve<\/strong> sites and there 11<\/strong> anniversaries, all in the same article about the same factory in Wuppertal. But you can even cause confusion without any letters at all: 1000<\/strong> is correct, so is 1,000,<\/strong> and 1 000<\/strong> is acceptable, but using all three together is messy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Key terms in focus<\/h3>\n

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This and much more is taken into account when checking \u201cconsistency of key terms\u201d. We focus on terms that we consider to be important in the context of the text or that appear physically close together so that the inconsistency is obvious. So if it says website<\/strong> on the first page and web presence <\/strong>on the twelfth, we\u2019ll let it be, particularly if the text is now dealing with something completely different, such as health care.<\/strong> But this definitely shouldn\u2019t then be written in the next paragraph as healthcare.<\/strong> And definitely not as health-care.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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One text \u2013 one approach<\/h3>\n

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We always ensure consistency in whichever medium we are currently working on \u2013 e.g. a brochure, flyer or poster. Do you want wording to be consistent across different jobs? Then read our information about corporate language<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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