I've honestly totally failed to get the real sense of it
have you ever thought about why such few people read the great classics and/ or the great writers like shakespeare, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens? its because the way of the way they impose their sentences. while am not comparing myself to these great authors, with more understanding of the language comes a kind of misuse and irrational use of words that though playful and witty, may come off sounding wrong, pretentious or silly.
try this for an example. its an excerpt taken from one of my fav. authors of all time: F. Scott Fitzgerald. the short story is called Bernice Bobs Her Hair, and if you'd be intersted in reading all of it, I'd be more than happy to share with you my summarised version
With a flourish and a bang the music stops. The couples exchange artificial, effortless smiles, facetiously repeat "la-de-da-da dum-dum," and then the clatter of young feminine voices soars over the burst of clapping.
A few disappointed stags caught in midfloor as they had been about to cut in subsided listlessly back to the walls, because this was not like the riotous Christmas dances--these summer hops were considered just pleasantly warm and exciting, where even the younger marrieds rose and performed ancient waltzes and terrifying fox trots to the tolerant amusement of their younger brothers and sisters.
sounds alot like something I'd write :madgrin:
I hope you won't take it personally the counsel, will you?
mmh, haha, no I won't take it personally. it's all in good sport isn't it? (though I detect a wee bit malice in your words, methinks I poked the dragon by correcting you :biggrin
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you are however right, my posts do seem wanting when it comes to punctuation (as for grammar, you've got me all wrong sweety, I rarely if ever, make grammatical and/or spelling errors). you seem to forget,
unless you're me and tend to flout the rules
. I come home from work tired from correcting students grammar the whole day, I don't think I can be bothered to make the effort to punctuate my sentences. if I were writing this by hand, I wouldn't cross the *t*'s or dot the *i*'s
as for my being a maestro, you are right (perhaps), I do need to brush up on my writing skills, but not in the sense you've said. I will however put your words into consideration and maybe one day even implement then. till then I will openly disregard punctuating my sentences in forums as I after-all am not one of my students :biggrin: :biggrin:
you are good, I agree, but I think you could also benefit from a few lessons with me, especially over your sentence structures :madgrin: :A S tongue: