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Allen Parris's avatar

This exceeding trifling witling, considering ranting criticizing concerning adopting fitting wording being exhibiting transcending learning, was displaying, notwithstanding ridiculing, surpassing boasting swelling reasoning, respecting correcting erring writing, and touching detecting deceiving arguing during debating.

Allen Parris's avatar

It's a riddle inside of a sentence. I can't claim it as mine, but it's fun to decipher.

Tanya S's avatar

I was delighted to come across your “useful” list! It reminded me of one I created for my children a few years ago.

Rules For Homework

I. THIMK.

2. Plan ahead carefully.

4. Avoid dumb mistakes.

5. Check, punctuation?

6. "Verify your facts." —Albert Einstein

7. Eschew relentless employment of the thesaurus.

8. Proofread your

your work.

9. Foc

10. Don't get distrac

Of course it didn’t format correctly so a couple of these got lost: numbers 2, which changes from a larger to a smaller font size at the end, and 9, which ends with a blurry “us”.

Tom White's avatar

Thank you so much!

Moritz's avatar

thank you, i will come back to this once in a while, i hope.

Tom White's avatar

Thank you for reading. Write on!

Russell Smith's avatar

Terrific list. I need to review this every time I put pen to paper

Tom White's avatar

Don’t not review it!

Herb Cohen's avatar

When I write dialogue in Fiction, I am using spoken language that is not grammatically perfect, because in our evolution we do not speak in a grammatically correct way. We often speak phrases, rather than complete sentences, and often use pronouns too much. People with ADD will have run-on sentences- they can't seem to help it. But we can create art by selectively mirroring our humanity using such dialogue even as we speak textspeak to each other.