<DIV><FONT face=Arial> <div align=left><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><U>Here's another one for you Siarlys</U></FONT></div> <div align=left><U><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Frank</FONT></U></div> <OL> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Verbs has to agree with their subjects</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Prepositions are not words to end sentences with</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>And don't start a sentence with a conjunction</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>It is wrong to ever split an infinitive</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Avoid clichés like the plague. (They're old hat.)</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Also, always avoid annoying a</A></FONT><A target=_blank name=1><FONT
color=#003399>ssonance</FONT></A><FONT color=#ff0000>*</FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Be more or less specific</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>No sentence fragments</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Contractions aren't necessary and shouldn't be used</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Foreign words and phrases are not apropos</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous</A></FONT>
<LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>One should never generalise</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Comparisons are as bad as clichés</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Don't use no double negatives forever</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>One-word sentences? Eliminate</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>The passive voice is to be ignored</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words however should be
enclosed in commas</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><A target=_blank name=1><FONT color=#003399>Kill all exclamation marks!!!</FONT></A>!</FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth earthshaking ideas</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A
target=_blank name=1>If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: "Resist hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it correctly."</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Puns are for children, not groan readers</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Even IF a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank name=1>Who needs rhetorical questions?</A></FONT> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><A target=_blank name=1><FONT color=#003399>Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement</FONT></A><BR><A target=_blank name=1><BR><FONT color=#003399>And finally...</FONT></A></FONT><BR> <LI><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#003399><A target=_blank
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