Grammar Rules for the Enlightened
Monday, August 22, 2005
Don't use no double negatives. Don't never use no triple negatives.No sentence fragments
Corollary: Complete sentences: important.
Stamp out and eliminate redundancy.
Excessive use of exclamation points can be disastrous!!!!!
Don't use question marks inappropriately?
Don't obfuscate your theses with extraneous verbiage.
Never use that totally cool, radically groovy out-of-date slang.
Avoid tumbling off the cliff of triteness into the black abyss of overused metaphors.
Keep your ear to the grindstone, your nose to the ground, take the bull by the horns of a dilemma, and stop mixing your metaphors.
Avoid those abysmally horrible, outrageously repellent exaggerations.
Avoid any awful anachronistic aggravating antediluvian alliterations.
This sentence no verb. full article
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True, true. It's sad to see people not using proper English to communicate online and resort to accronyms.
By P-Zan Leong, at Tuesday, August 30, 2005 6:01:00 PM
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