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Writing Glitch 1072

Posted on April 22, 2019 by

Today’s glitch: Believe it or not, the extreme mega-ellipsis is not the worst thing about this example. I’ll prove this is nonsense: Right now, as I type this post, I’m trying to grasp that number… and my head hasn’t collapsed … Continue reading →

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Writing Glitch 1061

Posted on April 11, 2019 by

Today’s glitch: *sigh* Why do I even bother? Idjits gonna idjit… Nevertheless, I’ll say something because I can’t not say something. Yes, when referring to basic biology/genetics, women do have two X chromosomes for the twenty-third pair, and men have … Continue reading →

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Writing Glitch 1060

Posted on April 10, 2019 by

Today’s glitch: Italicize titles of periodicals. (Titles of articles in periodicals should be written inside double quotation marks.) You can delete the year, because it’s clear from the context that the numeral refers to a year. “According to National Geographic, … Continue reading →

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Writing Glitch 1047

Posted on March 28, 2019 by

Today’s first glitch: Fix the punctuation by changing that comma to either a semicolon or a period. Fix the factual stuff by not posting this sort of nonsense as fact, because it isn’t. (People I know have described reading in … Continue reading →

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(show of hands)

Posted on March 22, 2019 by

On Wednesday, my clone-sibling told me about his idea for another series of novels, these a spin-off (stop it, brain! no spinning!) of the current series (the one beginning with The Remnant). Apparently someone didn’t take Geoffrey’s (out-of-story) advice to … Continue reading →

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Writing Glitch 1018

Posted on February 21, 2019 by

Today’s glitch: Argh! Yeah, I know it’s partly my fault, because I’m the one who keeps using examples from this source, and I keep using them because they’re so bad… Sometimes I don’t want to bother with the little, add-a-comma-and-you’re-done … Continue reading →

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Writing Glitch 1011

Posted on February 12, 2019 by

Today’s glitch: *looks at beginning of first sentence* Oh, hell, no…! Change the beginning to The first fully sapient AI. (If it isn’t intelligent at all, it isn’t artificial intelligence, is it? AI should be capitalized; if you can’t bring … Continue reading →

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