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Bill:

--- Quote from: hillsbororiver on June 24, 2007, 12:32:50 PM ---Here are several very important but often forgotten rules of English:

•Avoid alliteration. Always.

•Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.

•Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)

•Employ the vernacular.

•Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.

•Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.

•It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.

•Contractions aren't necessary.

•Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.

•One should never generalize.

•Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

•Comparisons are as bad as cliches.

•Don't be redundant. Don't more use words than necessary. It's highly superfluous.

•Be more or less specific.

•Understatement is always best.

•Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.

•One-word sentences? Eliminate.

•Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.

•The passive voice is to be avoided.

•Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.

•Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.

•Who needs rhetorical questions?




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Joe,

That is great.  What language is that?  Anyway do you have an English version?  :)

Thanks

Deborah-Leigh:
 ;D  ;D  ;D  Good one BK LOL ;D :D

Peace to you

Arcturus :D

GODSown1:
Beloved :D :D,
                  WotacrkuP!, U shuld ask my pupils hw ezy my teachinz r 2 learn :D lol! :D lol!, GOD is GOOD!.
                  muchLOVE!! Pera

hillsbororiver:
Great replies everyone, I love your Smiley Iris, very clever!

Yes, our wonderful English can be perplexing, even frustrating at times, I can only imagine how difficult it could be if it is not one's primary language or the first language learned, here are a few examples, I am sure you guys can come up with more;

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.

19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Deborah-Leigh:

Have copied that list to show my son!  8) A good experience of the absurdity of English! ;D :D

Thanks Joe!

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