Reddit reviews The Elements of Style

Exposition. Writing. When you read math books, some are clear and well-written and interesting. Others are boring and/or incomprehensible. The difference is a learnable skill. Start here.

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The Elements of Style. It's dirt cheap and a short read, check it out I think it'd help you hone the conversational voice you're looking for in your post!

I also have the freedom to post wherever I want; and I have the freedom to say fuck, despite it bothering you so much.

I'm also going to leave this here:
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Please, educate yourself. Calling someone uneducated doesn't work if your grammar is bad.

I'm going to go ahead and take the easy answers: On Writing Well and Elements of Style. Both a must for any writer.

bruh "scare quotes" aren't a real thing. Show me where it mentions "scare quotes" in The Elements of Style and I'll eat my hat.

The difference with what you said and that guy's example is that "film noir" isn't a thing that's said in movies of that style. You were referring to a style of joke (which would qualify it for quotes) whose name happens to be the text of the joke (which disqualifies quotes). See?

I know I know, nobody cares.

It's ok, this might help with your confusion

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You can improve your grammar and fix all these issues in about 60 days. That's it. Two months. Consider buying this book:

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Pardon? Here before you do anything else, genius, read this first:

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This may sound cliche, but I personally found The Elements of Style by Strunk & White to be the most concise and informative reference on writing effectively. It's a tiny book that packs a punch. It's a short read and you can find it just about anywhere.

Quite a while ago, I also read a book on writing by Stephen King. IIRC that focused more on storytelling and how he personally writes fiction, but the way he explained his writing process is interesting. Oh, and he hates adverbs, which is something I've adopted myself over time. He argued that for just about any verb modified by an adverb, there's a much better verb that could be used entirely. (For ex, "dashed" instead of "ran swiftly" or whatever.) Fun times.

I suggest The Elements of Style by Strunk and White. It will help with grammatical ambiguities such as this.

Generally with a noun phrase you can't just pick and choose which adjective phrases attached to it will carry over when referred to with a pronoun later.

How am I supposed to know if you mean, Federal Minimum Wage, Minimum Wage, or just Wage? I can't possibly read your mind. Yes, sometimes context can give one clues and perhaps I was being a bit flippant. However, one should still adhere to pragmatic phrasing and careful avoidance of ambiguity in sentence structure. When you assume, you make an ass of both of us.