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Category Archives: Bad writing
No Balling Babies!
The word is “bawl.” If you’re “balling like a baby” then these officers would like to have a word with you. Thanks you, Fake AP Stylebook
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It’s a Site for Sore Eyes.
I can’t believe someone gets paid to do this.
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The Smell of Someone’s Colon, and Other Misspellings
I do think “mental pause” has value. It’s certainly not limited by age or sex.
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I would like all the people who self-publish to stop saying they have a book published and start saying they have had a book printed.
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Good Writing or Writing Good?
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Good Fiction, Anyone?
So no Pulitzer for fiction this year. What does that say about our best sellers? Anyone have a book(fiction) from 2011-2012 that they would recommend? Afraid I don’t know of any.
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Rant
The word is WHOA. I don’t care how many times you’ve seen it on the internet as woah or whoah, you are wrong if you spell it that way. So stop it.
Cinnamon? Or downhill?
Per Huffington Post 4/20/2012 “Romney: Santorum Still Has ‘Major Roll’ in GOP.”
Maybe that previous work was in the cafeteria.
When I read this recap of a TV show, I had to check to see who wrote it, because I thought it might have been from a reader, an amateur wordsmith, and in that case, I would be kind and … Continue reading
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