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New Years Writers Improvements!
December 27, 2017, 08:47 PM
feersum dreadnaughtNew Years Writers Improvements!
quote:
Originally posted by Gene Hillman:
This is something up with which I shall not put! Seriously though, try some car forums.
Too bad Safire did not address proper use of the word “figment”.
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December 28, 2017, 06:45 AM
joel9507quote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
I offer the following dozen suggestions from William Safire
1.
...
18.
Bakers with their mere 13 are pikers next to Mr. Safire!
December 28, 2017, 06:55 AM
egregorequote:
Originally posted by mikeyspizza:
When I was in grade school, the teacher called on me and said, "Name two pronouns." I said, "Who, me?"
She, it.
December 28, 2017, 07:11 AM
flashguy"Get the Little Book" ("The Elements of Style" by Strunk)--it covers it all.
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Texan by choice, not accident of birth December 28, 2017, 07:27 AM
detroit192
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JALLENquote:
Originally posted by joel9507:
quote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
I offer the following dozen suggestions from William Safire
1.
...
18.
Bakers with their mere 13 are pikers next to Mr. Safire!
Candor compels me to confess that one is on me.
The Safire list was not numbered, and when I wrote the post, I cut and pasted his list, in the impression there were 12. When I edited it before posting, adding the numbers, it came to 18. In the spirit of the whole thing, I just went with it.
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown December 28, 2017, 09:15 AM
OKCGenequote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
quote:
Originally posted by joel9507:
quote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
I offer the following dozen suggestions from William Safire
1.
...
18.
Bakers with their mere 13 are pikers next to Mr. Safire!
Candor compels me to confess that one is on me.
The Safire list was not numbered, and when I wrote the post, I cut and pasted his list, in the impression there were 12. When I edited it before posting, adding the numbers, it came to 18. In the spirit of the whole thing, I just went with it.
Readin' writin' and 'rithmetic, all covered in this thread. Our edumucashun is complete. Time now for rasslin!
December 28, 2017, 09:51 AM
jehzsa"Think of words ending in -gry. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word?"
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Knowing more by accident than on purpose.
December 28, 2017, 10:37 AM
Patrick-SP2022quote:
Originally posted by jehzsa:
"Think of words ending in -gry. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word?"
The third word is "language".
December 28, 2017, 11:01 AM
JALLENWhat?
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown December 28, 2017, 12:42 PM
Patrick-SP2022quote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
What?
Assuming you are referencing my reply above.
"There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word?"
It's a trick question. The question is not looking for another word ending in -gry.
December 28, 2017, 12:45 PM
JALLENquote:
Originally posted by Patrick-SP2022:
quote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
What?
Assuming you are referencing my reply above.
"There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word?"
It's a trick question. The question is not looking for another word ending in -gry.
As you told us, “what is the third word.” QED
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown December 28, 2017, 01:22 PM
Patrick-SP2022quote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
As you told us, “what is the third word.” QED
I should have known better than to think a wordsmith such as yourself would have been fooled but the quote was in the form of a question; "What is the third word?"
December 28, 2017, 07:48 PM
jehzsaWeirdgry. The third word is weirdgry.
As used in a sentence---> That relationship is going really weirdgry.
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Knowing more by accident than on purpose.
December 29, 2017, 07:27 AM
rduckwor"A North Korean nuclear scientist who defected to China committed suicide after being forced to
return back ,"
This morning from the William Faulkners at MSN.
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