Funny Advice 3

[AlexCuse]

I started a new class last night, and had a few 'writing tips' in the notes (we will have to write quite a few reports). Thought you guys might get a kick out of these:

-Prepositions dangle awkwardly if you use them to end sentences with.

-Avoid clichés and colloquialisms like the plague, or you will seem old hat.

-Employ the vernacular, while eschewing arcane and obfuscatory verbiage.

-Overstatement totally destroys any credibility you ever had forever.

I'm sure you guys have some good ones along these lines. Lets hear 'em!

Alex

[small]----signature below----[/small]
With all due respect, Don Bot, I don't think we should rely on an accident happening. Let's kill him ourselves.

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom

 

[BobRodes]

<Even more definitions than "set"?

Cajun, after answering your post, I read John's. Shouldn't do that. However, a bit of research suggests that the matter is open to debate. See

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,811678,00.html

and

http://www.oed.com/news/revisions.html.

Bob

 

[BobRodes]

So I guess the answer is that it depends on whom you ask.

 

[CajunCenturion]

==&gt; So I guess the answer is that it depends on whom you ask.
Or whom you choose to believe. It also matters what you're asking. The Online OED has run in third place, behind make (first) and set (second). The Time article cites run and its compounds as having the most, but that's with compounds. It's a shame the Time doesn't give a number of definitions for run without the compounds, or that the OED doesn't provide counts with compounds. Without one or the other, we're comparing apples and oranges.

--------------
Good Luck
To get the most from your Tek-Tips experience, please read
FAQ181-2886
As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it. - Albert Einstein

 

[BobRodes]

So, the veracity of my original statement about the matter is dependent on the definition of the word "definition" and whether the researchers are coming up with real facts or not. I'll live with that.

 

[SimonDavis]

I was invited to a bar in Brazil, to listen to live music and eat snakes.

Being blunt, I said I was happy to go for music and beer, but I wasn't at all interested in the food. When we got there, our kind host ordered snacks for everyone except me.

 

[BobRodes]

Very funny! Reminds me of something that happened when I was 3 years old. I went to my friend Randy's house next door and knocked. Randy answered and said "Hi Bobby, we're having mice meat. Do you want some?" I didn't like the idea, but was curious enough that I went in anyway. As it turned out, they were having ice cream.