A slow day for you, Mr. Massey?
You forgot "Eschew obfuscation"...
>From: David Massey <105671.471@compuserve.com>
>Reply-To: David Massey <105671.471@compuserve.com>
>To: Bud Rolofson <Bud_Rolofson@nps.gov>, TR List <Triumphs@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re:RE: TR250... again
>Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 14:34:19 -0500
>
>Message text written by Bud Rolofson
> >And Joe should have said "the end OF it" not "the end to it".
>Incorrect
>use of prepositions will also incur hazing.
>
>Bud
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>
>There are a simple set of guidlines that we use when posting to this list
>to help us write good:
>
> 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 cliches like the plague. (They're old hat)
>
> 6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
>
> 7. 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. Contractions aren't necessary and shouldn't be used.
>
> 12. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
>
> 13. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary;
> it's highly superfluous.
>
> 14. One should NEVER generalize.
>
> 15. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
>
> 16. Don't use no double negatives.
>
> 17. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
>
> 18. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
>
> 19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
>
> 20. The passive voice is to be ignored.
>
> 21. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words
> however should be enclosed in commas.
>
> 22. Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice.
>
> 23. Kill all exclamation points!!!
>
> 24. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
>
> 25. Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth
> earth shaking ideas.
>
> 26. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its
> not needed.
>
> 27. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate
> quotations. Tell me what you know."
>
> 28. If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times:
> Resist hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it correctly.
>
> 29. Puns are for children, not groan readers.
>
> 30. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
>
> 31. Even IF a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
>
> 32. Who needs rhetorical questions?
>
> 33. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
>
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