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Dawg
Sez 7
Concise
and correct with a modicum of grace. That's what
writing should be. Doesn't much matter whether it's a classic five
paragraph essay or a two line email, the parameters should hold true.
Concise
means to get the most information with the fewest words. Minimalism
of a sort. Comes form the Latin word concidere meaning
to cut up or cut down.
Correct
means using vocabulary, grammar, and syntax with clarity and
precision. No moral judgments need apply. This is not
about good or bad, right or wrong. As I've suggested before, words
and language are either common or uncommon. Common usage makes for
'right', and uncommon usuage makes for 'wrong'. Nobody likes a
stranger.
Grace is smoothness and elegance of
movement. English prose depends primarily on the arrangement of words
and phrases to create well formed sentences. Meter, rhythm, and
other literary devices serve a similar role for poetry.
Brings
to mind (my mind, anyways .. arf arf) those three beautiful goddesses
of Greek mythology: Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne, believed to
personify and bestow charm, grace, and beauty. Could do worse, when
you're wasting pencils, than to keep those three beauties in mind.
More
'practicin' what a peach':
fishing
a
creel
damp
ferns and jack pine
a
creek
the
rippling and nibbling
a
cree a crawk
the
stellar jay's din
fishing
flys
and
and
dry wicker creaks
casting
reels
with
the
hissing and rippling
splashing
white
water's fall
thigh
deep
at
dusk
fishing
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