[language,fun] Что касается неоконченных предложений

[piggymouse]

How to improve your English

Tips to improve your writing

1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
3. Employ the vernacular.
4. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
5. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
6. Remember to never split an infinitive.
7. Contractions aren't necessary.
8. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
9. One should never generalize.
10. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
11. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
12. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
13. Be more or less specific.
14. Understatement is always best.
15. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
16. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
17. The passive voice is to be avoided.
18. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
19. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
20. Who needs rhetorical questions?
21. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
22. Don't never use a double negation.
23. capitalize every sentence and remember always end it with point
24. Do not put statements in the negative form.
25. Verbs have to agree with their subjects.
26. Proofread carefully to see if you words out.
27. If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.
28. A writer must not shift your point of view.
29. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction. (Remember, too, a preposition is a terrible word to end a sentence with.)
30. Don't overuse exclamation marks!!!
31. Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to the irantecedents.
32. Writing carefully, dangling participles must be avoided.
33. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
34. Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors. [Приз зрительских симпатий]
35. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
36. Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing.
37. Always pick on the correct idiom.
38. The adverb always follows the verb.
39. Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague; They're old hat; seek viable alternatives.

Comments

[tatien.livejournal.com]

;)

Вы меня сбили с толку. Такой же юзерпик есть у piggy_toy. Свинарник, а не бой-фрэндз-лента.

[piggymouse.livejournal.com]

Разных свиней в ЖЖ вообще много, например vba. А подставленный мной сейчас юзерпик — вообще обложка какой-то книги Житинского.

[dimkaguarani.livejournal.com]

А я как раз хотел наябедничать. ;)

[nine_k]

Вот тут ещё есть некоторые, которых нет в этом списке: http://www.physics.mun.ca/~cdeacon/writegood.htm

Вообще, попытка выяснить точное значение поговорки про "Go around the barn at high noon" гуглем приводит к безнадёжным результатам :-)

[piggymouse.livejournal.com]

И про быка тож.

[dimkaguarani.livejournal.com]

Вотще полагать, будто архаизмы в грамоте споспешествуют пониманию оной.

[dimkaguarani.livejournal.com]

25. seems to be mistyped...

[nice-beaver.livejournal.com]

Это называется "40 rules for gooder English".

A preposition is a terrible word to end a sentence with

[dimkaguarani.livejournal.com]

Вспоминается дивный анекдот, процитированный в мемуарных виньетках А.К.Жолковского:

- Excuse me, Sir, where over here is Harward Yard at?
- Excuse me, Sir, but in Harward we never end a sentence with a dangling preposition...
- Then where over here is Harward Yard at, you, asshole?!

[oxfv.livejournal.com]

Нет, все же "One should never generalize" самый лучший, на мой вкус. А где же аналог тех длинных телег, которые я уж не воспроизведу, но там типа про то, что если очень многословно свою мысль выражать, то можно легко запутать читателя?