Why is it that some people insist on writing in all capital letters? I love to peruse the Saturday real estate section in the local paper, and enjoy reading the descriptions of my “dream homes,” except for the ones written in all caps! It’s not that I’m trying to make a point, it’s that I ...
My most favorite daily email is a little feed called Dumb Little Man. I get a lot of email news feeds every day, as well as a lot of just plain emails, and this is the one I rush to open every day. The impetus for my comment on it, actually I could comment on ...
Yesterday I finished up work for the day and went out to get the mail. Strange, there was an airmail letter from Montreal. I opened the letter and out dropped a check for $2990. Pay dirt, I finally hit it, my luck was changing — the thoughts that flashed through my mind. The check was ...
In just the past two days I have come across two articles, both of which “how-to’s” about good writing, both of which were rife with writing errors. What errors? Passive voice, pseudo-academic style (in other words, difficult to understand), agreement of pronouns and antecedent (That person caught their coat in the door), crazy sentence construction, ...