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Proper English Tips for Forum Users.....=)

October 02 2012

If you reread your work, you can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.Don't be redundant and use more words than necessary it's Highly Superfluous,take the bull by the hand and avoid mixing metaphors go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. and it is best to avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague. They're old hat, seek viable alternatives.

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RHP User

13 years ago

I needed to reread your post before I realised you were being tongue in cheek.

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13 years ago

Hi! Nudierudie2..Thanks for the Topic:) Oh! You are Naughty he!he! but thanks I had quite a giggle from your Post he!he! Oh! I'm sure I break every Cardinal rule at some stage even when I do recheck, edit it.Add to that incorrect spelling he!he! Sooooooooo! Frustrating.. That's why My main Language on the Forums isn't English but Typonese he!he!.. Cheers Lu :)

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RHP User

13 years ago

I hate the re read..only because i find my mistakes..and i cant use liquid paper anymore !!

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RHP User

13 years ago

I just love to be improper

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RHP User

13 years ago

ROFLMAO,Erudite, succinct, and fuckin' funny !

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RHP User

13 years ago

Nudie might call it, "shutting the gate after the words have rolled off your tongue", or some such thing. I look at it then and think, "I'm a fuckin' idiot" and I'm quite sure there are many other contributors that agree with me. I am guilty of using 'big' words here and there but I find that this can make your comment more succinct. You're not using a whole group of 'little' words to convey the same meaning.

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RHP User

13 years ago

Yes it was a" tongue in cheek" post so put away the pixels people Nothing ta see here..!I knew that some people would grasp that sooner..( or later.. he he)I would like Thank You Freya13....for inciting some rather sexy minds out of the woodwork's recentlyOne last thing do you think...We are the people our parents warned us about.

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RHP User

13 years ago

yeah good one

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13 years ago

Quoting 'MadamDragonfly' Hi! Nudierudie2..Thanks for the Topic:) Oh! You are Naughty he!he! but thanks I had quite a giggle from your Post he!he! Oh! I'm sure I break every Cardinal rule at some stage even when I do recheck, edit it.Add to that incorrect spelling he!he! Sooooooooo! Frustrating.. That's why My main Language on the Forums isn't English but Typonese he!he!.. Cheers Lu :) I often suffer from a dreadful case of Typlexia.... debilitating condition...where one's fingers don't seem to be able to keep up with ones train of thought and it ends up like looking like Alphabet Vomit...I am most certainly guilty if incorrect punctuation!!, grammar and spelling, and most likely a few other crimes....but at least i make an effort...in his strange placeInternet-Land where the language spoken is ...well...i will leave you to comment on that....I love the use and the abuse of the English language.....and this is an age where we have words like....FaceTime-noun an application for a mobile communications device that enables people to speak to each other while simultaneously observing each other on a video displayverb-to speak to someone using this applicationAmazeballs Definitions exclamation(slang) an expression of enthusiastic approval In the Dictionary

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RHP User

13 years ago

to fit those of us who are not trained to type properly and are looking for short cuts to keep up with our thoughts.The flexibility of the language is part of the reason for its success, so you may not be using it properly unless you too are flexible with itI rekinAnd inefficiency should be abolished (like why are there two f's in efficiency ?)

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13 years ago

Quoting 'slinkey' to fit those of us who are not trained to type properly and are looking for short cuts to keep up with our thoughts.The flexibility of the language is part of the reason for its success, so you may not be using it properly unless you too are flexible with itI rekinAnd inefficiency should be abolished (like why are there two f's in efficiency ?) I like that efficiency observation !I want to shoot the bastard that spelt phonetic p.h. !

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RHP User

13 years ago

My iPad is set to maximum verbosity, sorry lol

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13 years ago

Quoting 'Taipan12' I hate the re read..only because i find my mistakes..and i cant use liquid paper anymore !!Doesn't liquid paper work on the computer? Damn, I've a lot of scraping to do.

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RHP User

13 years ago

Spel check

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