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Show HN: Improve Your Writing – Grammar and Writing for Creators
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#2The first bullet point reads "Learn all the important elementary to advanced rules and errors."
How many of you had to re-read it at least once, or rescan mid-sentence, to understand?
I won't even discuss the second bullet point: "Write skilfully, and write powerful and eloquent blog posts, books, and more."
It's quite disturbing to see this language in a guide that is all about grammar, writing, and the importance of being well-understood.
Or am I just a grump old man?
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#3By the way, Richard is also the guy behind JavaScript Is Sexy (http://javascriptissexy.com/), a great blog about JavaScript (I always recommend his "How To Learn JavaScript Properly" post: http://javascriptissexy.com/how-to-learn-javascript-properly... )
Re: Show HN: Improve Your Writing – Grammar and Writing for Creators
#4Perhaps you are indeed a "grump" old man, as both those cited sentences are grammatical.
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#5The first bullet point reads "Learn all the important elementary to advanced rules and errors." How many of you had to re-read it at least once, or rescan mid-sentence, to understand? I won't even discuss the second bullet point: "Write skilfully, and write powerful and eloquent blog posts, books, and more." It's quite disturbing to see this language in a guide that is all about grammar, writing, and the importance o…
I agree the first sentence is a bit awkward (I would suggest something like "Learn all the important rules and errors, from elementary to advanced"), but what's wrong with the second example?
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#6The first bullet point reads "Learn all the important elementary to advanced rules and errors." How many of you had to re-read it at least once, or rescan mid-sentence, to understand? I won't even discuss the second bullet point: "Write skilfully, and write powerful and eloquent blog posts, books, and more." It's quite disturbing to see this language in a guide that is all about grammar, writing, and the importance o…
You aren't grumpy, this is just grammatically correct but with extremely poor rhythm. A technically correct writer is not a good or great writer by any means, and it is always useful to know when rules should be broken.
Maybe the authors are going for irony?
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#7The first bullet point reads "Learn all the important elementary to advanced rules and errors." How many of you had to re-read it at least once, or rescan mid-sentence, to understand? I won't even discuss the second bullet point: "Write skilfully, and write powerful and eloquent blog posts, books, and more." It's quite disturbing to see this language in a guide that is all about grammar, writing, and the importance o…
I agree the first sentence is a bit awkward (I would suggest something like "Learn all the important rules and errors, from elementary to advanced"), but what's wrong with the second example?
The rhythm is all messed up. Not eloquent at all.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree the first sentence is a bit awkward (I would suggest something like "Learn all the important rules and errors, from elementary to advanced"), but what's wrong with the second example?
The rhythm is all messed up. Not eloquent at all.
Perhaps we should take a moment and remember that Grammar can be fun (or so they tried to convince us between Saturday morning cartoons) (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NkuuZEey_bs)
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#9Perhaps you are indeed a "grump" old man, as both those cited sentences are grammatical.
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#10The first bullet point reads "Learn all the important elementary to advanced rules and errors." How many of you had to re-read it at least once, or rescan mid-sentence, to understand? I won't even discuss the second bullet point: "Write skilfully, and write powerful and eloquent blog posts, books, and more." It's quite disturbing to see this language in a guide that is all about grammar, writing, and the importance o…
The writing is optimized for skim reading. The idea is that, whether you choose to read just two words, twenty words, or the whole thing, they'll still get their message across.