This handy guide was distributed at the conference today.
A couple of tips stuck out for me.
However I'm spending the evening working in my hotel room, while my syntax mangling and mispllling thngs. Cursez. I'lll nevr get to B a gud blgger.
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This handy guide was distributed at the conference today.
A couple of tips stuck out for me.
However I'm spending the evening working in my hotel room, while my syntax mangling and mispllling thngs. Cursez. I'lll nevr get to B a gud blgger.
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That's a good guide. Did you get a Kit Kat from the mini bar yet?
Posted by: Ben | February 07, 2008 at 07:48 PM
I'm in Switzerland. There's only Toblerone.
Posted by: russell | February 07, 2008 at 07:57 PM
You should be writing a blogging guide. You do it exceptionally well.
Posted by: Pablo Rosas | February 07, 2008 at 11:14 PM
Does that mean the mini bars are bigger?
Posted by: John Dodds | February 08, 2008 at 02:19 AM
No matter about spelling and syntax: five hyphenated words in a seven-line paragraph - that really is shocking.
Posted by: davidthedesigner | February 08, 2008 at 08:23 AM
The Toblerones are mini John.
Posted by: The Kaiser | February 08, 2008 at 09:41 AM
This style guide needs a style guide. It should be, "But you're not writing a novel OR a magazine story..." Not "nor". It could have been, "But you're writing NEITHER a novel NOR a magazine story.." or, "But you're NOT writing a novel, NOR are you writing a magazine story...". Both are rather clunky, though. The rogue "nor" is a classic sign of someone trying too hard. Sorry to be a pedant, but as a writer I just can't help it. And this is, after all, supposed to be a guide to good English.
Posted by: Mike Reed | February 08, 2008 at 10:41 AM
This style guide needs a style guide. It should be, "But you're not writing a novel OR a magazine story..." Not "nor". It could have been, "But you're writing NEITHER a novel NOR a magazine story.." or, "But you're NOT writing a novel, NOR are you writing a magazine story...". Both are rather clunky, though. The rogue "nor" is a classic sign of someone trying too hard. Sorry to be a pedant, but as a writer I just can't help it. And this is, after all, supposed to be a guide to good English.
Posted by: Mike Reed | February 08, 2008 at 10:43 AM
i no-
tice-
d th-
e hy-
phon-
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ns t-
oo.
perhaps they got their hyphens cheap.
Posted by: funkypancake | February 08, 2008 at 06:45 PM
Everybody thinks faster than they can type (well, most of us do, anyway) so consequently, words do get dropped from time to time, or misspelled as another word that spell-check doesn't catch. I try to remember to always read my completed blog entries top to bottom before posting. Typos always look worse when you're a writer by trade. More blather at http://craigmcnamara.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Craig McNamara | February 08, 2008 at 11:54 PM