The Telegraph’s readers never fail to respond to a call for the worst offences against the English language.
A blog and question published here, asking whether standards could sink any lower than describing holly wreaths as holly reaves elicited a huge response. There were more excellent contributions to second question here.
Here is the top [...]
While it may be acceptable in friendly e-mails and chat rooms, excessive colloquialism is a major pitfall that has brought down the quality of formal, written text. Here are some steps/tips that you can follow to help to improve your overall writing:
After all these years you finally have the courage and opportunity to write the email announcing that you and you alone have single handedly saved the company from utter disaster. You’re excited, you type it, you spell check it, and you hit send.
Everything is great except that your gold star memo has dangling modifiers, double [...]
I wonder if these companies just Babelfished the slogans into another language. Never..trust…babelfish.
Get your Where’s and were’s mixed up? Not sure if you should comma, semi colon, or full stop? Past tense present tense and future tense getting you all confuddled? This list may be just for you.
Folks, I’m back. After I laid it out for you about how to figure out if you’re dating a high maintenance girl, my mind has been on work. And I want to point out the most ridiculous work sayings or cliches that really get on my nerves. It’s as if taking something simple and phrasing [...]
Can you improve your conversation skills? Certainly.
It might take a while to change the conversation habits that’s been ingrained throughout your life, but it is very possible.
To not make this article longer than necessary let’s just skip right to some common mistakes many of us have made in conversations. And a couple of [...]
We found this while cruising though Bloglines last night. If you are writing anything at all, odds are you’ll improve your skills by spending some time at the Poynter Institute. So without delay, here is a list of a whopping 50 articles that we should all read (yes, I said we because my writing tends [...]
With all of this talk about content, don’t you think it’s time to have a frank discussion about grammar? Our Web sites are our online store fronts—our online images. If our sites are full of grammar errors, what does that say about the professionalism of our businesses?
The Internet tends to be a more relaxed atmosphere, [...]
