Joe B. WallI generally cleave to the advice from Strunk & White's The Elements of Style when it comes to avoiding the passive voice, except when I'm asked what happened to the last piece of cake.
"It became eaten."
Foucault_this@BathysphereHat I dunno; I think a lot of what is being framed as leftist antisemitism is instead #invertedantisemitism which works more like a honeypot rhetorical device to distort conversation by focusing on edge-cases and ‘personal truths’. This tactic is used to incite emotional knee-jerk reactions, the content is then fed back into the hallucinatory #trumpling blogosphere, or worse—to capture names, images, #voiceprint writing #elementsofstyle etc. to profile and dox.
CbtryonI’m again reading Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style.
It’s good to do so every once in awhile; I fall into bad habits.
#writing #EBWhite #ElementsOfStyle
Cory DoctorowThere's a kind of checklist to help with this: when a story is falling short in some way, writers roll out these "rules" for what makes for good and bad prose. There are a bunch of these rulesets (think of #StrunkAndWhite's #ElementsOfStyle), including some genre-specific ones like the #TurkeyCityLexicon:
https://www.sfwa.org/2009/06/18/turkey-city-lexicon-a-primer-for-sf-workshops/
8/
Turkey City Lexicon - A Primer for SF Workshops - SFWA
Edited by Lewis Shiner Second Edition by Bruce Sterling NOT COPYRIGHTED Introduction by Lewis Shiner This manual is intended to focus on the special needs of the science fiction workshop. Having an accurate and descriptive critical term for a common SF problem makes it easier to recognize and discuss. This guide is intended to save […]
रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)What a delightfully-irreverent guide to #writing in #English - if you're a fan of #PoliticsAndTheEnglishLanguage by #GeorgeOrwell or of the #ElementsOfStyle by #StrunkAndWhite, brace yourself:
"How To Write English Prose", The Lamp (https://thelampmagazine.com/blog/how-to-write-english-prose).
Nancy FriedmanA women’s clothing brand called GRAMMAR, with styles called Split Infinitive, Pronoun, Superlative, and Dangling Modifier.
“Inspired by The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. & E.B. White., GRAMMAR creates foundational elements of a modern minimalist wardrobe.”
GRAMMAR: Perfect White Shirts
GRAMMAR creates elegant garments that stand up to the highest standards of design and sustainability. A crisp white shirt is a powerful, iconic wardrobe staple and a necessity in any wardrobe. GRAMMAR shirts are made in NYC’s Garment District from 100% organic cotton sourced from an ethical producer in India.
Nalini Joshi@ccanonne anyone who mentions Strunk and White #ElementsOfStyle and Herman Melville’s books and poems as #WritingTips has my attention…
/dev/mem] I'm really tired, so I'm going to bed.Good night Fediverse! Have fun.info/url/478202 ard's Bewildered Missile is a big hit? So frustrating!e.com/watch?v=UenATTJgrHQ#glossopoeia #Vocaloidricably Christian discipline.ng.net/2018/02/24/cyber-strunk-and-white.html #elementsofstyle #hap4 https://cybre.space/media/4uL5y_KtsS7_dBD06YM ne-dark hyamateur telescope maker in Jap
Boing BoingA cybersecurity style guide https://boingboing.net/2018/02/24/cyber-strunk-and-white.html #elementsofstyle #happymutants #styleguides #bishopfox #language #infosec #Post