How to write good.

[Rustyt1953]

As for correcting the grammar and spelling of others, especially on this forum, I don't do it and consider it rude.

Amen and amen!

 

[RobertJ.]

Sesquipedalian

I can't use that word.

I have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

 

[Onomea]

I can't use that word.

I have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

Not bad. Not bad at all!

 

[soFlaNative]

I can't use that word.

I have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

I had to look that one up and found this.
sesquippedaliophobia
Fear of long words
I think the hippomonster is for emphasis.
I do enjoy lazy Sunday mornings right thru the afternoons

 

[Chubbo]

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[crazyphil]

If you are challenged, as I am, by grammar, punctuation, etc.,
my advice is to "get the little book". THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE.
It has not solved all of my shortcomings, but it helps.

 

[Bakebfr480]

How to write good just doesn't sound correct.

 

[Bakebfr480]

Don't use a foreign word when there is an adequate English quid pro quo.

Contractions aren't necessary.

Don't use no double negatives.

Eschew obfuscation.

Don't use no double negatives?

 

[crazyphil]

One would think by this display of wit
that Shakespear's ghost came here to writ.
Yes, writ is a word. Look it up.

 

[REM 3200]

Why do people keep leaving out the words "to be"? Example:

"This needs to be fixed."
"This needs fixed."

The latter sounds illiterate and dimwitted.

Well, I'm fixin' to fix it.

 

[vigil617]

One would think by this display of wit
that Shakespear's ghost came here to writ.
Yes, writ is a word. Look it up.

It's "Shakespeare's" ghost. Unless you are referring to some obscure Native American warrior's.

And while "writ" is certainly a word, the correct choice in your example would have been "write."

Your welcom. .

 

[crazyphil]

It's "Shakespeare's" ghost. Unless you are referring to some obscure Native American warrior's.

And while "writ" is certainly a word, the correct choice in your example would have been "write."

Your welcom. .

Thanks for the correct spelling of the poet's name. I didn't
think it looked right, but didn't take the time to look it up.
Write would not rhyme.

 

[vigil617]

One would think by this display of wit
that Shakespear's ghost came here to writ.

One would think this display of wit
Showed Shakespeare's ghost this way did flit.

 

[Golddollar]

One would think by this display of wit
that Shakespear's ghost came here to writ.
Yes, writ is a word. Look it up.

There are lots of writs in court records.

 

[LVSteve]

Not ending a sentence with a preposition is a chore with which I won't bother.
As there is no sarcasm or irony font I will use the vernacular or lousy grammar to indicate tongue in cheek vs. condescension.
Does not always work as indicated in the recent bear spray thread.

We see what you did there.

 

[Rustyt1953]

If I can decipher Chaucer then I can handle anything that anyone throws at me including 'frontier gibberish'.

 

[Onomea]

How’s your Latin, Rusty:

Si ville der digo
Fortebus es in aro
Dem nobus es
Demis trux
Sit ininem
Cusandux.

 

[M29since14]

That’s “authentic frontier jibberish,” isn’t it?

 

[Rastoff]

How to write good just doesn't sound correct.

That's because it's not and you obviously know how to write well.

 

[RobertJ.]

I had to look that one up and found this.
sesquippedaliophobia
Fear of long words
I think the hippomonster is for emphasis.
I do enjoy lazy Sunday mornings right thru the afternoons

For me, it was simple:

The longer word was funnier.