Post by david on Dec 29, 2005 16:52:10 GMT -5
On bad writers who try to dress up their prose with big words ...
"You can put frosting on a dog turd, and it's still just a dog turd.
"Most times, the first word that comes to mind is the right word. If you find yourself pulling a word from the pages of a thesaurus, it's probably not the one you're looking for. Once you start doing this, you end up like a little kid playing dress-up with mommy and daddy's too-big clothes. The results are laughable."
"You can put frosting on a dog turd, and it's still just a dog turd.
"Most times, the first word that comes to mind is the right word. If you find yourself pulling a word from the pages of a thesaurus, it's probably not the one you're looking for. Once you start doing this, you end up like a little kid playing dress-up with mommy and daddy's too-big clothes. The results are laughable."