Ryan Gosling: Women are "stronger, more evolved than men"

[Cool As Ice Cream]

[run2pee]

Originally Posted by slunken

some message boards have a rule where you can't make a post without more than 10 characters. we should have one where you can't make a post with more than 100 words.

I get lazy too but it's a good practice to go back and revise and play the game of can u say the same thing with as few words as possible

[redbreegull]

I don't have a problem with reading a long post if the topic is interesting to me.

I find it harder to respond to something long though instead of something with a few easily identifiable points, especially in the fast-paced world of the intrawebs

[duovamp]

I can't read.

[run2pee]

I try to revisit this every year or so. Only 78 pages and solid gold advice throughout:

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Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell.

[run2pee]

Many expressions in common use violate this principle:

the question as to whether = whether (the question whether)

there is no doubt but that = no doubt (doubtless)

used for fuel purposes = used for fuel

he is a man who = he

in a hasty manner = hastily

this is a subject which = this subject

His story is a strange one. = His story is strange.

The expression "the fact that" should be revised out of every sentence in which it occurs.

Just such gold

[duovamp]

Guy writes entire book instead of just saying: make your writing more athletic.

[yo soy el mejor]

Originally Posted by Run To Me

I try to revisit this every year or so. Only 78 pages and solid gold advice throughout:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...tyle_cover.jpg

reminds me a lot of a quote i love: “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” I've heard it attributed to Pascal, Twain, and Locke, but it's just a good reminder to give each word a job when you edit and edit again.

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by Cool As Ice Cream

yeah, we both knew that.

yeah, plus there are other proofs. a really simple way is

1/3 = .333...
.333... + .333... + .333 = .999...
1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 1

[slunken]

yes but one must not forget

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[yo soy el mejor]

/nods head seriously

[teh b0lly!!1]

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