How to write Gooder - Jamaica Talk

JASpice · #1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 04:34 PM

(okay...I know this could also go in the make us laugh category, but this category is still a little vacant.... )

In dedication to MissB and Jamcan

Allways use a spel cheker.

Avoid long complex sentences which go on and on without using any punctuation to break up the long sentences as this can lead to confusion as people read your text

Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.) (You mark my words)

Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.

Employ the vernacular.

Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.

Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary (and unwanted).

It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.

Contractions aren't necessary.

Avoid alliteration. Always.

Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.

Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

Comparisons are as bad as cliches.

One should never generalize.

Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.

Be more or less specific.

One-word sentences? Eliminate.

Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.

The passive voice is to be avoided.

Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.

Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.

Exaggeration is a million times worse than understatement.

Who needs rhetorical questions?

Understatement is always best.

JamCan · #2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 04:48 PM

Uuuh you forgot Alex in your dedications.

JASpice · #3 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by JamCan

Uuuh you forgot Alex in your dedications.

But he writes as bad as I do!!!

Domo · #4 (**permalink**) 02-06-2008, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by JASpice

But he writes as bad as I do!!!

You mean he writes more worser than you?

Hotteach · #5 (**permalink**) 02-06-2008, 11:50 PM

OMG Where is my Red Pen!

Domo · #6 (**permalink**) 02-08-2008, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Hotteach

OMG Where is my Red Pen!

Why? Are you going to put on some lipstick?

Hotteach · #7 (**permalink**) 02-08-2008, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Domo

Why? Are you going to put on some lipstick?

NO I am going to write my letter of resignation from ETJ...lolololol

GhettoGurl · #8 (**permalink**) 02-08-2008, 04:38 PM

I heard Gooder is a Canadian word

Nanoose · #9 (**permalink**) 07-04-2008, 01:50 AM

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Originally Posted by GhettoGurl

I heard Gooder is a Canadian word

Gooder is a Canadian word.

A Gooder is a tool for digging narrow trenches.
It was invented in 1687 by Morris Gooder a Canadian who lived in
Toronto Canada.
Actually I am just goofing around Cheers!

mychizzz · #10 (**permalink**) 07-09-2008, 06:42 PM

Hi,

I am not a good writer and was thinking if those are true. .

GhettoGurl · #11 (**permalink**) 07-09-2008, 06:46 PM

I thought gooder WAS Canadian so **High Five** My chizzzzzzz