Critical Cricket ([info]criticalcricket) wrote,
@ 2004-05-18 03:21:00
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Current mood: mischievous

Writing Checklist
There's this great poster on the wall in my workplace. I didn't realize I'd written it down until I came across the crumpled note. It's an amusing look at making and recognizing some common grammar errors.

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Writing Checklist

Don't use no double negatives.

About them sentence fragements.

Try to not ever split infinitives.

Verbs has to agree with their subjects.

Between you and I, case is important.

Correct spelling is essentail.

When dangling, watch your participles.

Use your apostrophe's correctly.

Avoid cliches like the plague.

Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.

Proofread you writing.

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(Anonymous)
2004-05-18 05:44 pm UTC (link)
Wow. You plagiarized a poster! Good for you!

What a fucking moron you are.

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[info]criticalcricket
2004-05-26 10:35 pm UTC (link)
First of all, in order for me to plagiarize the poster, I would have to have claimed it as my own. Plagiarism is when a person copies a work or ideas and attempts to pass them off as their own. I never said I wrote it therefore I never plagiarized. What I have done is merely the written equivalent of walking up to a friend and saying, "I read this really amusing article today, let me tell you about it." I suggest that if you don't know what something is, you go and look it up before jabbing your finger around going "See! See! You really are an idiot!" It only makes you look foolish.

Second of all, the fact that you've sunk to cussing and name-calling tells me that you really don't have anything useful to say. Cursing is for those who do not have an adequate vocabulary to express themselves. So, if you don't have anything intelligent to say, why don't you keep your sorry little comments to yourself?

Thank you.

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[info]lizey
2004-06-10 12:10 am UTC (link)
teeheehee.

I sense ignorance...perhaps someone doesn't know what a case or a participle is, and feels foolish? *revelling in her Latin-grammar-nerdity*

And if that was plagiarism, I do it all the time. Every day, probably.
'Cept it wasn't.

oh yes. *wave* I got here through the journal in which you have been named no.4 in some self-pitying wanker's list of bitches. Figured if you beat tviokh you were worth a try ;).

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