This "extended-smiley" originally came from solving the NYT Sunday x-word puzzle (just got around to that today, 14 minutes - new record) but its humor, now enhanced, is worth sharing with those who need a few tips from the recognized professional expert on such things as anti-semantics <g>
1) Split infinitives - wrong to ever split them 2) Rhetorical questions - who needs them? 3) Exaggeration - all-time worst mistake 4) Prepostions - not good to end sentences with 5) Contractions - aren't necessary 6) Ambiguity - is more or less OK 7) Double negatives - don't never need them. 8) Sentence fragements. Don't even think about it. 9) Subject-verb agreement - are usually immaterial 10)Case - between you and I, case is important. 11)When dangling, watch your participles. 12)Use your apostrophe's correctly. 13)Avoid cliches like the plague. 14)Don't use commas, that aren't necessary. ...and lastly, the one I never fail not to do 15)Correct spelling is always essentail.
