Yak Shaving Razor #10

Yak Shaving Razor — By Joe Carter on June 29, 2005 at 12:50 am

#80 Snail Mail Spam Stopper — If you

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  • pgepps says:
    June 29, 2005 at 5:06 am

    Hey, good stuff again. Except that writing advice, which is only good for bad writers, who won’t be able to use it competently, anyway.
    A subject-initial bias is good, as is a subject-verb together bias. A “right-branching sentence” rule is a recipe for comma soup like his examples.
    Of course, if one actually *likes* that horrible, horrible slathering of ink they call journalistic prose, well, by all means have at it. You’ll have me begging for matchsticks under my fingernails in no time, though, if you make me listen to it for long.
    Cheers,
    PGE

  • RazorsKiss says:
    June 29, 2005 at 9:13 am

    That was a lovely metaphorical mixed bag…
    You listen to your journalistic prose, while begging for matchsticks? :D

  • daniel says:
    June 29, 2005 at 8:02 pm

    The best way to put a quick step into Acrobat Reader is to download version 7.

  • Linoge says:
    July 3, 2005 at 9:33 pm

    W00t. Thanks for the opt-out information. Just barely out of college and already getting spammed out the wazoo…

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