I am a word geek. Grammar excites me. Diction delights me. A well-turned phrase makes me breathe heavily.
This looks like a very cool new book. It bills itself as the punchier, edgier heir apparent to the venerable Strunk and White.
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6 comments:
So if I want to impress you, I should correct your grammar as I whisper in your ear?
Ick. Bad usage on his own webpage, and he wants me to abandon Strunk and White for him?
Mixed metaphor: "Prepare to soar above the sad lot of predictable stylists." Blecch!
Another confused metaphor "today could be a day of levitation for you." From my shackles? What the hell does this mean? Unclear is not 'edgy.'
Tired usage: "I'll be adding nuggets gathered in a career as author" Oh, gathers nuggets, does he? why doesn't he 'glean' them like other cliche users do?
I'm prepared to be corrected, but I'm not sure 'epiphanic' is a word.
This is not a sentence: "I suggest you raid this site now and as its riches overfloweth." As its riches overfloweth, what? Complete your sentences!!
What a pompous ass. I wouldn't pay one penny for his book, or spend one more moment soaking up crap from his website. Stick with Strunk and White.
Wow. You are right. That is garbage.
Maybe I won't buy it/read it after all...
But is epiphanic a word? That's what I really want to know...
the above does sound nasty, but *anyone* who wants to replace Strunk and White had better be damned good. And he's not.
Plotnick favors liberal use of neologisms (newly and deliberately coined words). Epiphanic may be one (I'll have to go look).
epiphanic is indeed a word, but given that it's been popping up a lot more often lately, I wouldn't be surprised if it's a new one:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=epiphanic
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