Guest LB Posted August 2, 2003 Report Share Posted August 2, 2003 1. Avoid alliteration. Always.2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.3. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)4. Employ the vernacular.5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.7. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.8. Contractions aren't necessary.9. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.10. One should never generalize.11. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."12. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.13. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.14. Be more or less specific.15. Understatement is always best.16. One-word sentences? Eliminate.17. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.18. The passive voice is to be avoided.19. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.20. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.21. Who needs rhetorical questions?22. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest northamuk Posted August 2, 2003 Report Share Posted August 2, 2003 This belongs in PCA, unfortunately, I cannot move it there. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted August 3, 2003 Report Share Posted August 3, 2003 Has lived backwards suddenly swallowed a dictionary? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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