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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 26 2013, 08:16 AM (275 Views) | |
| theophilus | Jul 26 2013, 08:16 AM Post #1 |
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1. Always avoid alliteration. 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 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. 23. Superlatives are the worst. 24. Brevity is the soul of wit; that is to say, in order to best maximize one's rhetorical effect, it is necessary to strip down any given idea to its bare essentials, and to use as few words as necessary to convey the sentiment, generally speaking. 25. You shouldn't never, ever use double negatives. Edited by theophilus, Jul 27 2013, 08:52 AM.
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| S.T.Ranger | Jul 26 2013, 09:13 AM Post #2 |
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I love that one...lol. Thanks brother. |
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| Tico | Jul 26 2013, 06:12 PM Post #3 |
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| Tico | Jul 26 2013, 06:14 PM Post #4 |
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| S.T.Ranger | Jul 26 2013, 06:20 PM Post #5 |
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Hilarious. Still laughing. Only you, Tico... God bless. |
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| Tico | Jul 27 2013, 02:25 PM Post #6 |
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| S.T.Ranger | Jul 28 2013, 02:32 PM Post #7 |
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Would have hit the like button but it seems to not show up on all threads, lol. So... L,I.K;E! God bless. Edited by S.T.Ranger, Jul 28 2013, 02:32 PM.
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| S.T.Ranger | Jul 28 2013, 02:32 PM Post #8 |
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Get it? |
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