档案2008年5月
政治是坏的,但我将搁置一边那。
国会最近通过了法规富感情地知道作为NOPEC,不妨为没人站立可能期待清晰,反而是一个首字母缩略词为没有产石油和-出口企业联合行动。因为没人在华盛顿特区,可能可能了解复合形容词,更不用说文字基本,清楚的英语, “好,我增加了hypens。
什么这次行动是允许国会,并且它起诉石油输出国组织国家的选定的心腹,如果他们感觉后者扣压油的生产和通过供给和需求的操作人为地因而提高价格。 好运以这些诉讼,但我们看一看在NOPEC使能的语言:
“它将是非法和侵害这次行动”,宣称众院, “否则限制石油的生产或发行、天然气,或者其他石油产品…或对作为所有行动在贸易限制为石油、天然气或者任何石油产品,当这样行动、组合或者集体行动有一个直接,坚固和合理地可预见的作用在市场、供应、油的价格或者发行,天然气或者其他石油产品在美国”。
如同我说,好运与NOPEC。 并且好运以文字明白英语。 您在两种情况下将需要它。
被制作的世界的体育新闻工作者备草粮这个过去星期以指控那USC学院篮球杰出人材O.J。 Mayo是在作为全部时间从高中。
几天,在故事打破了之后, Mayo见面了与 洛杉矶时报 记者本否认指控的Bolch,说:
“如此为了他们能说我接受了$30,000或什么案件是,我确定地不认为是足够全部售光的我自己和我家”。
那在次于最后的段。 这什么最后段观察了:
“跟随采访, Mayo滑倒入新的红色Porsche卡宴GTS与二个朋友和击退了”。
好的并置。 或它是否是反语?
Seen in my hometown of Rowland Heights, Calif.
Actually, I’d frequent this place if there were any truth in advertising. Why not quaff a gin and tonic while getting your haircut?
However, the owners clearly meant salon.
The sign behind it is also interesting. With vin in the title, I was expecting a wine shop. instead, the place sells traditional Chinese dresses.
Every year, English teachers from across the country submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country.
Here are last year’s winners:
1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
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I’ll answer that question for you. Yes, you do, if you’re human.
What subvocalize means is that you mentally "fill in the blanks" as you’re writing, but your reader will not be able to do the same when he or she reads it. There are many reasons that we all leave "holes" in our writing, including haste, exuberance and lack of experience.
Nonetheless, there is a cure for subvocalizing and thus making your writing understandable only to you. That cure is to leave the writing in the computer, or sitting on the table, for a day or more if you have the time. After you’ve slept on things, you’ll wake up and read your writing and realize you skipped along too hastily and left some matters unexplained or incompletely explained.
I’ve written about the ideal writing process before, but an article I stumbled upon today reminded me of the need for "curing time" in writing, so my thanks to the author of that article, Richard Kallan.
I was watching an ESPN telecast when the host brought on a PR expert in reclaiming one’s reputation. The subject, obviously, was Roger Clements and his string of lies ever since he was revealed to be a ‘roids monstrosity.
This PR guy said there was a six-step process to recover one’s reputation and that the first two steps were "truth" and "honesty."
"There’s a difference?" I kept thinking.
So I looked up the two words:
Truth is defined as "the true or actual state of a matter" by dictionary.com (the first meaning given). Honesty is defined, first meaning, as "the quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness."
So, I assume what PR guy meant was that, first, one had to begin telling the truth, and second, one had to adopt a policy of always telling the truth.
I still think the two are redundant since, if you adopt either truth or honesty as a policy, you’ll achieve the same goal.
However, it’s highly unlikely that Roger Clements has any intention of telling the truth or adopting honesty. Deceit is his only mode other than bullying others.