50 Tips on How to Write Good

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I was the only one who got the humor in it....They all just wondered what they got themselves into. He had to explain it and what you just said to them.
Can you imagine Huckleberry Finn or The Cotton Patch Gospel, written in "proper" English?
 
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I depend on auto-correct when I use my tablet to such a point that I've started taking auto-correct for granted, nevertheless I'ts still easy to make mistakes If I forget to proofread before I submit my post.
 

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54. No posting rules about rules.
 

kodiak

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Can you imagine Huckleberry Finn or The Cotton Patch Gospel, written in "proper" English?
That would be horrible, just like if the rules were written properly.
 
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BTW, for those of you who have no idea what The Cotton Patch Gospel is, here it is.

This was not done out of "making fun", but as a quite serious work by Clarence Jordan that might better relate the Gospels to plain country people today if Jesus had been born in our Southern USA 70 or 80 years ago. (It attempted to combine both the Causation and African American perspectives.)
https://hopefaithprayer.com/scriptures/cotton-patch-gospel-matthew-clarence-jordan/
 

Dude653

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24 and 51 made me giggle.
 
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Lol, oh man all ready there is grammar police infraction. If Dude doesn't point it out by tomorrow then I call dibs.

Did make me laugh though, in especial thee consternation against ye olde high tongue of archaism.
xD *thy

LOL
 

crossnote

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BTW, for those of you who have no idea what The Cotton Patch Gospel is, here it is.

This was not done out of "making fun", but as a quite serious work by Clarence Jordan that might better relate the Gospels to plain country people today if Jesus had been born in our Southern USA 70 or 80 years ago. (It attempted to combine both the Causation and African American perspectives.)
https://hopefaithprayer.com/scriptures/cotton-patch-gospel-matthew-clarence-jordan/
Sounds like some of the 'ol Uncle Remus stories
Sample...

"Bimeby, one day, atter Brer Fox bin doin' all dat he could fer ter ketch Brer Rabbit, en Brer Rabbit bein doin' all he could fer ter keep 'im fum it, Brer Fox say to hisse'f dat he'd put up a game on Brer Rabbit, en he ain't mo'n got de wuds out'n his mouf tewl Brer Rabbit came a lopin' up de big road, lookin' des ez plump, en ez fat, en ez sassy ez a Moggin hoss in a barley-patch.
""Hol' on dar, Brer RAbbit,' sez Brer Fox, sezee.
"'I ain't got time, Ber Fox,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, sorter mendin' his licks.
"'I wanter have some confab wid you, Brer Rabbit,' sez Brer Fox, sezee.
"'All right, Brer Fox, but you better holler fum whar you stan'. I'm monstus full er fleas dis mawnin',' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
"'I seed Brer B'ar yistdiddy, 'sez Brer Fox, sezee, 'en he sorter rake me over de coals kaze you en me ain't make frens en live naberly, en I tole 'im dat I'd see you.'
"Den Brer Rabbit scratch one year wid his off hinefoot sorter jub'usly, en den he ups en sez, sezee:
"'All a settin', Brer Fox. Spose'n you drap roun' ter-morrer en take dinner wid me. We ain't got no great doin's at our house, but I speck de ole 'oman en de chilluns kin sorter scarmble roun' en git up sump'n fer ter stay yo' stummick.'
"'I'm 'gree'ble, Brer Rabbit,' sez Brer Fox, sezee.
"'Den I'll 'pen' on you,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
"Nex' day, Mr. Rabbit an' Miss Rabbit got up soom, 'fo' day, en raided on a gyarden like Miss Sally's out dar, en got some cabbiges, en some roas'n years, en some sparrer-grass, en dey fix up a smashin' dinner. Bimeby one er de little Rabbits, playin' ou t in de back-yard, come runnin' in hollerin', 'Oh, ma! oh, ma! I seed Mr. Fox a comin'!' En den Brer Rabbit he tuck de chilluns by der years en make um set down, en den him and Miss Rabbit sorter dally roun' waitin' for Brer Fox. En dey keep on waitin' for Brer Fox. En dey keep on waitin', but no Brer Fox ain't come. Atter 'while Brer Rabbit goes to de do', easy like, en peep out, en dar, stickin' fum behime de cornder, wuz de tip-een' er Brer Fox tail. Den Brer Rabbit shot de do' en sot down, en put his paws behime his years en begin fer ter sing:
 

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And if you ever give a speech make sure you tell them, tell them again, and then tell them what you told them! - Earnest Hemingway I think