How to write good

[HarveyDarkey]

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.

Winnie the Churchill.

[yellowcanine]

9. Alternatively, "This is the sort of bloody nonsense which I will not put up with, asshole."

Classic smack down of the obnoxious grammar policeman.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

22. my fave.

[longship]

13. "This the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."

I think that is the way Sir Winston wrote it.

[The Magistrate]

2. Rules To Live By, Sir

Worthy of Michael O'Donoghue's School of Writing Good...

'Stories are best ended this way: "And then he was hit by a truck."

'If there are several characters with loose ends that need wrapping, the ending may be altered thusly: "And then they were all hit by a truck."'

[DCKit]

32. Great rules, and 23 words I'm going to have to look up and study. nt

[RebelOne]

3. I am familiar with all those rules after being a copy editor 13 years

for outdoors magazines. You would not believe all the rules that were broken by sports writers.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

24. as though they were on steroids, eh?

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Sounds like you're training to write instruction manuals.

[badtoworse]

5. Don't you mean "How to write well"?

[ZombieHorde]

11. That is the joke. Every sentence is off from it's own rule. nt

[onehandle]

6. Useless. I swear every one of those lines breaks its own rule.

Oh, wait...

[ellisonz]

7. WTF!?!? (WTF!?1?)!

[zappaman]

8. Thank you

I will now write gooder after reading this.

[HarveyDarkey]

12. or better yet

more gooder

[Kalidurga]

15. wait

What is betterer, more gooder, the goodest, or very goodiest?

[Liberal Veteran]

10. That is incorrect. You write good "G-O-O-D"

and you do so with a writing implement such as a pencil.

[BadgerKid]

14. So where is the list of rule's? Its missing. n/t

[nolabear]

26. Rule couldn't make it. We have the list of HarveyDarkey's.

[DaveJ]

16. I have trouble with rule #2

Some sentences just naturally want to end with prepositions.

Like, "Who did you go to Prom with?" Nobody says "With whom did you go to the Prom?" That rule needs modification, IMO.

Great list!

[cloudbase]

17. That's the bestest

and most unique set of rules I ever seen.

[sarge43]

23. Its most perfect. n/t

[Riftaxe]

18. 24. Numbers are not a suitable replacement for words or letters...

unless you are l33t! then they are Gr8!

[Jamaal510]

20. Fuck profanity!

I hate that shit so much that as someone without a care in the word, it really concerns me!

[fishwax]

21. points for style -- not so much for substance

[Uncle Joe]

25. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, HarveyDarkey.

[mmonk]

27. LOL

[Scuba]

28. Never use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice.

The things I do with words are just some antics. -- Biff Rose

[Mister Ed]

30. Eschew obfuscation! n/t

[Control-Z]

29. Your subject line

scared me off probably a dozen times. I was afraid I would be cringing through an entire OP. The number of recs finally got the better of me.

I guess the system really does work the way it was meant. (At least, most of the time.)

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

31. My favorite prepositional phrase story.

Yankees manager Lou Pinella comes out to argue a call with umpire Steve Palermo....

Lou: Where was that pitch at?

Steve: Lou, don't you know you aren't supposed to end a sentence with a prepositional phrase?

Lou: OK. Where was that pitch at, asshole?

[lunatica]

33. Well, I'll just have to throw away my Catcher in the Rye then.

[Towlie]

34. They forgot "Make sure that you don't any words out."

[Blue_Tires]

35. Nah -- Superman does 'good'; you're doing 'well'. You need to study your grammar, son...