[BarryRX]

I am shocked at the number of grammatical errors I see on this site. In an effort to improve the level of writing, I am sharing the 11 writing rules that I think are important.
1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid cliches like the plague.
4. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
5. One should never generalize.
6. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Sentence fragments? Eliminate.
9. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
10. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
11. Who needs rhetorical questions?
I hope this helps.

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by BarryRX

I am shocked at the number of grammatical errors I see on this site. In an effort to improve the level of writing, I am sharing the 11 writing rules that I think are important.
1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid cliches like the plague.
4. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
5. One should never generalize.
6. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Sentence fragments? Eliminate.
9. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
10. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
11. Who needs rhetorical questions?
I hope this helps.

Thanks, it helps a lot.
And may I add, avoid overusing smilies. Just saying.

[rubicon]

I don't got No Problems and I'm fixin to get really really really mad at you for thinking that you have a right to learn people on how to speak and writ. This is so fun and very fun blag and we don't need no tellin us what to dothat's all's I have to say

[pooh]

Originally Posted by rubicon

I don't got No Problems and I'm fixin to get really really really mad at you for thinking that you have a right to learn people on how to speak and writ. This is so fun and very fun blag and we don't need no tellin us what to dothat's all's I have to say

And you said it soooo well!!!

[mrfixit]

Originally Posted by BarryRX

I am shocked at the number of grammatical errors I see on this site. In an effort to improve the level of writing, I am sharing the 11 writing rules that I think are important.
1.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.

I hope this helps.

...............Which reminds me of the un-educated on the college campus.

Case in point.....
....Years ago some "blitherskite" walked up to me and asked........


..HIM..... "Can you tell me where the administration building is at.?"

...ME......."We at Harvard do not end our sentences with a preposition !"

...HIM..... "OK..can you tell me where the administration building is at, A$$HOLE."

...

[old moe]

Originally Posted by rubicon

I don't got No Problems and I'm fixin to get really really really mad at you for thinking that you have a right to learn people on how to speak and writ. This is so fun and very fun blag and we don't need no tellin us what to dothat's all's I have to say

I could not have said it better me self

[Tom Hannon]

This is supposed to be a fun site. Most of us just type. There is reason to cross every t and dot every I. If we are writing something important we all tighten things up. We are friends here (most of us are anyway) and don't need to be so formal. And if someone happens to make a typo, who gives a !!!!! There are times when in a rush I don't even check spelling. I never knew somebody would be grading me. ps- for what it's worth, I'm a published author. I know the importance of all the things you mentioned. But this is not the place to worry about them. This was typed on my iPad and I might have missed a few caps.

[BarryRX]

Originally Posted by Tom Hannon

This is supposed to be a fun site. Most of us just type. There is reason to cross every t and dot every I. If we are writing something important we all tighten things up. We are friends here (most of us are anyway) and don't need to be so formal. And if someone happens to make a typo, who gives a !!!!! There are times when in a rush I don't even check spelling. I never knew somebody would be grading me. ps- for what it's worth, I'm a published author. I know the importance of all the things you mentioned. But this is not the place to worry about them. This was typed on my iPad and I might have missed a few caps.

Hey Tom.....it's a joke!

[Taltarzac725]

And here it is not.

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[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

And here it is not.

Well, excuse me.mpg - YouTube

I have read some authors who have much poorer grammar and the like than most TOTVers. These were mainly lawyer briefs though, where you take 1000 words to express a 20 word idea.

[Trish Crocker]

Originally Posted by BarryRX

I am shocked at the number of grammatical errors I see on this site. In an effort to improve the level of writing, I am sharing the 11 writing rules that I think are important.
1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid cliches like the plague.
4. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
5. One should never generalize.
6. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Sentence fragments? Eliminate.
9. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
10. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
11. Who needs rhetorical questions?
I hope this helps.

[Tom Hannon]

Originally Posted by BarryRX

Hey Tom.....it's a joke!

I didn't know it was a joke. The way TOTV has been lately with Ornament police, sound police, chair police you never can tell. Just recently someone said I was violent. If it were a joke I apologize.

[rubicon]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

I have read some authors who have much poorer grammar and the like than most TOTVers. These were mainly lawyer briefs though, where you take 1000 words to express a 20 word idea.

Its called billable hours. I actually had an attorney that charged me for a 20 hour day. When I approached him on it he said that he was thinking about the assigned case when at dinner, taking a shower and before falling asleep. When i fired himhe asked why I told him that if he needed that much time a day to work on a case he was not well versed with the law and find someone better qualified.

[JeffAVEWS]

Tom, if you read the 11 rules you will see that he breaks each rule in the sentence! Pretty clever I'd say.

[Pturner]

Originally Posted by BarryRX

I am shocked at the number of grammatical errors I see on this site. In an effort to improve the level of writing, I am sharing the 11 writing rules that I think are important.
1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid cliches like the plague.
4. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
5. One should never generalize.
6. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Sentence fragments? Eliminate.
9. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
10. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
11. Who needs rhetorical questions?
I hope this helps.

Thanks for the chuckle.

And don't start a sentence with and and never say never and run-on sentences are a no no, y'all.