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yellowcanine

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

Reply to ChairmanAgnostic (Reply #1)

Tue May 15, 2012, 01:46 PM

May 2012

Classic smack down of the obnoxious grammar policeman.

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How to write good [View all] HarveyDarkey May 2012 OP

This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put. ChairmanAgnostic May 2012 #1

Alternatively, "This is the sort of bloody nonsense which I will not put up with, asshole." yellowcanine May 2012 #9

my fave. ChairmanAgnostic May 2012 #22

"This the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put." longship May 2012 #13

Rules To Live By, Sir The Magistrate May 2012 #2

Great rules, and 23 words I'm going to have to look up and study. nt DCKit May 2012 #32

I am familiar with all those rules after being a copy editor 13 years RebelOne May 2012 #3

as though they were on steroids, eh? ChairmanAgnostic May 2012 #24

Sounds like you're training to write instruction manuals. Baitball Blogger May 2012 #4

Don't you mean "How to write well"? badtoworse May 2012 #5

That is the joke. Every sentence is off from it's own rule. nt ZombieHorde May 2012 #11

Useless. I swear every one of those lines breaks its own rule. onehandle May 2012 #6

WTF!?!? (WTF!?1?)! ellisonz May 2012 #7

Thank you zappaman May 2012 #8

or better yet HarveyDarkey May 2012 #12

wait Kalidurga May 2012 #15

That is incorrect. You write good "G-O-O-D" Liberal Veteran May 2012 #10

So where is the list of rule's? Its missing. n/t BadgerKid May 2012 #14

Rule couldn't make it. We have the list of HarveyDarkey's. nolabear May 2012 #26

I have trouble with rule #2 DaveJ May 2012 #16

That's the bestest cloudbase May 2012 #17

Its most perfect. n/t sarge43 May 2012 #23

24. Numbers are not a suitable replacement for words or letters... Riftaxe May 2012 #18

This message was self-deleted by its author Jello Biafra May 2012 #19

Fuck profanity! Jamaal510 May 2012 #20

points for style -- not so much for substance fishwax May 2012 #21

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe May 2012 #25

LOL mmonk May 2012 #27

Never use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice. Scuba May 2012 #28

Eschew obfuscation! n/t Mister Ed May 2012 #30

Your subject line Control-Z May 2012 #29

My favorite prepositional phrase story. ProudToBeBlueInRhody May 2012 #31

Well, I'll just have to throw away my Catcher in the Rye then. lunatica May 2012 #33

They forgot "Make sure that you don't any words out." Towlie May 2012 #34

Nah -- Superman does 'good'; you're doing 'well'. You need to study your grammar, son... Blue_Tires May 2012 #35