Advanced English Usage
A hot scolding!
Two of the most puzzling words in the English language to me have been irregardless and invaluable.
Such words seem to double back and contradict themselves. What about inflammable. Does it flame up or doesn't it? Sometimes words evolve into colloquialisms that have a life of their own!
Then there is poor vocabulary. I once saw a box of donated food that was not invited from Catholic charity...NonPARISHable goods only!
Here are sources of preferred interest that shed a good definitive light on all of these advanced mind benders!
Mastering these will help our web copy and posts rock!
https://www.kibin.com/grammar-rules-blog/incorrect...
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/invaluable
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Mike, collinsdictionary is a tool, which will be of great use for me.
The grammar rules blog is also very helpful for me.
Thanks for sharing these links!
:-)
Good one Mike! I recently read a book by Ann Handly, the author of - Everybody Writes, who refers to "Frankenwords."
Basically in an attempt to look clever, people start inventing big words which only contributes to what she describes as, " a monstrous, ugly, frighting mess."
Which. "Like a food additives, they make the resulting concoction far less nourishing, and they contribute to a content obesity epidemic." (Where), "words become fat, bloated versions of themselves."
Taken from annhandley.com/everybodywrites/ . I think its worth taking a look into it.
If you have a website, you are a publisher. If you are on social media, you are in marketing. And that means we are all writers. -
Writing matters more now, not less. Our online words are our emissaries: They tell our customers who we are.
Our writing can make us look smart or it can make us look stupid. It can make us seem fun, or warm, or competent, or trustworthy—or it can make us seem humdrum or discombobulated or flat-out boring. That’s true whether you’re writing a listicle or the words on a SlideShare deck, and it’s also true of the words you’re reading right here, right now…
And that means you have to put a new value on an often-overlooked skill in content marketing: how to write, and how to tell a true story well.
And that means you have to choose words well—and learn how to write with economy and style and honest empathy for your customers.
Did you use the blue tablet books to write answers in Susan. Called "bluebooks" at Oregon State!
Sometimes I think you are dead set on driving us crazy - with these damn thought provoking posts - that leave us trying to comprehend what all it means. I think it is to "ensure" we go crazy - If I understand if that is the right word choice of the three..
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Thanks Mike.
I didn't go that well in English years ago at school. Forgot how long ago that was.
Thanks for the lesson and I endeavour to vastly improve