Poorly Written Prose
Towards a Cartesian Legal Language
Accordingly, it is possbile to construct the pump housing in such a manner that, in addition to the said at least approximately radial outlet, it [...]1 The above-quoted passage shows with eminent clarity the point at which the use of the word “said” to clarify the referrent of an expression overextends itself in the English [...]
Poorly Written Prose
I have eaten many eggs; I have eggs for breakfast every day. Also, I grow my own.1 I think it would be hard to misuse the word “grow” more severely than it’s misued right there without the use being utter nonsense. Bricology : www.bricology.com/expound/?p=4↩
Today’s Poorly Written Prose
I truly hate those fools who converge several words into a moronic sentence and assume that everyone else believes it to be sophisticated. Today’s example of poorly written prose is a rather special one because of its high irony factor: the author, while denouncing pretentious writers, succeeds in exemplifying the essential fault of all pretentious [...]
Foster
We foster to create an atmosphere of tolerance and respect, not a company full of yes men. (See article on Google found at MSN and at Slashdot) I love the boys at Google, but, god, can’t someone teach them the meaning and proper usage of the word “foster”? It’s a transitive verb and ellipsing its [...]
Poor, Though Not Quite Vile, Prose
DULLSVILE i told you people this board would be boring with out jack around. Thanx a lot. Way to misspell Dullsville. Again, we have one of those suggestive misspellings that you might misinterpret as clever if you gave these people the benefit of the doubt, which they don’t generally deserve.
Poorly Written Prose
Someone once told me I was too analytical and that it was bad. But I’m a firm believer that analyticism establishes clever minds. Poorly written sentence of the week award. Here, as in so many other times, the cause is that no one knows how or cares to use a dictionary. “Establishes” should not be [...]
Poorly Written Prose
In addition to the Quote Of The Day, I am now also going to have the following Poorly Written Prose award. (Likely with the same consistency as the Quote Of the Day is given out now.) But while researching the relationships of 120 women, Susan Shapiro Barash, author of “A Passion for More: Wives Reveal [...]