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5 Jan 2007 @ 14:39, by Enocia Joseph

Fellow bloggers, I feel it's important that we all master the following "Rules for Writers," which I received via email.

No need to thank me, just glad I could help. :)

With love,
Enocia

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1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.

2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.

3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.

4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.

5. Avoid clichés like the plague. (They're old hat.)

6. Be more or less specific.

8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually)
unnecessary.

9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.

10. No sentence fragments.

11. Don't use no double negatives.

12. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.



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5 Jan 2007 @ 14:48 by jmarc : Good advice
Also
13. "Scare quotes" look "silly" when "used too much".

14. There IS no NEED to CAPITALIZE every OTHER word. CAPITAL letters SHOULD be RESERVED for CERTAIN names OF people AND places, AND at THE beginning OF the FIRST word IN a SENTENCE, and RARELY used AS EMPHASIZE.  

5 Jan 2007 @ 16:21 by vector8 : LOL
15. And it's important :) to keep :) smilies :) :-) to the absolute :-) ;0) minimum. :) ;) :-) :o) :-D  

5 Jan 2007 @ 17:01 by bushman : Hmm,
Sounds like, the control Nazi's, can't control the world, so they make more rules, soon, they will put us in camps, for terrorizing and abussing letters/words, like, Im anti-lexiconic. lol };>~  

5 Jan 2007 @ 17:19 by vector8 : Rule no. 16 by bushman - hehehe
16. Never EVER try to MANIPULATE a writer into FOLLOWING a particular RULE because RULES are GOOD for you.

:-) :-) :-)

Ooops, sorry I forgot about rule 15.  

5 Jan 2007 @ 21:22 by jobrown : well.... yes Bushy....
check it out; todays Political art on www.rense.com I heard these "things" were made to control US , cos they couldn't control our bad lingo!  

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