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Have you ever heard of the golden ratio? that is a ratio in music that states that where the best notes should be played for a perfect song. it is through deviance and personality where the true beauty in imperfections lie, of course, as having a perfect meal would be imperfect without a little grease, of course.
So, as far as i can remember, the best notes for music lie at four five and eight, among others. this means that the best words to the eye would also be four five or eight letters long, so, making a list of these words, and trying to use them as much as possible, while still sticking to your fifty five to eighty letters a sentence would be to your advantage.
So, we have covered paces and tones, yes? of course, there are as many varieties of rules as you can imagine, hopefully i have imagined enough to help you with your writing, but, i am not done yet, of course.
Now, let's discuss 'structure.' when someone looks at the page, it forms an artwork of sorts. this would be due to the actual 'look' of the page, no less. if you were to use my older structure of a guideline format of two, three and four lines, mixed every now and then with about eight lines, then you would see it actually even looks nice. everybody wants to look at pages that look nice, of course.
Then, if you were to put this to science, not merely an 'artsy guideline format,' you could say that typically there are two sentences, three sentences, and so forth. this means that the topic is changing often, as, some people have short attention spans, and, other have long attention spans. this makes it easy for both, of course, as those with a longer span will be spoiled due to the quick movements of characters and objects.
Why not think of this like a 'object based science?' this would be where you create objects for your story, and characters. one mistake many writers make is to add too many objects or characters at the same time - this is why the paragraphs are so long, because they know it works to flesh out their objects and characters. this means, of course, that the 'short attention span person' will feel less excited as the paragraph or scene goes on, hoping to get to events, yes?
Another thing to think about is locations. sometimes characters meet up, and that means a shared location. using one you have already discussed will bring about a feeling of familiarity, as even people reading books have a feeling of comfort in regular territory. this means that they will be familiar people meeting in a familiar place, making the reader more comfortable with the scene, and less withdrawn from the scene due to new lots of characters and locations, of course.
Who's we? Nobody is paying any attention to you.
You don't know what the golden ratio is. It's usually called the golden section.
Wow, an English teacher saying that... any that say that are doing a real disservice to their pupils, should be fired for that horrendous sentiment. Grammar is difficult, tough enough to teach without putting roadblocks in student's minds.That's funny. The Golden Ratio, the Golden Section, the Golden Mean, the Golden Spiral. And, for even more fun, you can have the Golden Spiral vs. the Rule of Thirds and the well-known Phi Grid.
The Golden Ratio vs. The Rule of Thirds: Which is Best? ? PictureCorrect
All joking aside, it is an interesting video if you like taking pictures.
All joking aside, my son wrote a paper for a seventh-grade history class. He asked me to read it and I said, "Charles, this is terrible. You can do better than this. There is almost no punctuation, the spelling is horrible, the sentences aren't sentences."
"My English teacher said that grammar, spelling, punctuation, and structure were all artificial constructs and all that matters are my thoughts." I spent a week teaching my son that his English teacher was a fool. He grew up to be a man who can read and write which is a rarity today.
After carefully weighing the two, your use of floccinaucinihilipilification and a discussion of some of the actual mechanics of writing, I would judge yours to be the worthless one.Floccinaucinihilipilification
holy turds, you criticized your son ???All joking aside, my son wrote a paper for a seventh-grade history class. He asked me to read it and I said, "Charles, this is terrible. You can do better than this. There is almost no punctuation, the spelling is horrible, the sentences aren't sentences."
and then you actually taught him to take the correct pathI spent a week teaching my son that his English teacher was a fool.
and bingo...it workedHe grew up to be a man who can read and write which is a rarity today.
Wow, an English teacher saying that... any that say that are doing a real disservice to their pupils, should be fired for that horrendous sentiment. Grammar is difficult, tough enough to teach without putting roadblocks in student's minds.
That's funny. The Golden Ratio, the Golden Section, the Golden Mean, the Golden Spiral. And, for even more fun, you can have the Golden Spiral vs. the Rule of Thirds and the well-known Phi Grid.
The Golden Ratio vs. The Rule of Thirds: Which is Best? ? PictureCorrect
All joking aside, it is an interesting video if you like taking pictures.
All joking aside, my son wrote a paper for a seventh-grade history class. He asked me to read it and I said, "Charles, this is terrible. You can do better than this. There is almost no punctuation, the spelling is horrible, the sentences aren't sentences."
"My English teacher said that grammar, spelling, punctuation, and structure were all artificial constructs and all that matters are my thoughts." I spent a week teaching my son that his English teacher was a fool. He grew up to be a man who can read and write which is a rarity today.
After carefully weighing the two, your use of floccinaucinihilipilification and a discussion of some of the actual mechanics of writing, I would judge yours to be the worthless one.
Floccinaucinihilipilification
"My English teacher said that grammar, spelling, punctuation, and structure were all artificial constructs and all that matters are my thoughts."
Have you ever heard of the golden ratio? that is a ratio in music that states that where the best notes should be played for a perfect song. it is through deviance and personality where the true beauty in imperfections lie, of course, as having a perfect meal would be imperfect without a little grease, of course.
So, as far as i can remember, the best notes for music lie at four five and eight, among others. this means that the best words to the eye would also be four five or eight letters long, so, making a list of these words, and trying to use them as much as possible, while still sticking to your fifty five to eighty letters a sentence would be to your advantage.
That's a pretty standard response from anyone here should you criticise their use of language, spelling or grammar. I always point out that those things are the tools that allow you to accurately express all those thoughts that matter. Bad spelling and poor punctuation make those important ideas impossible to grasp. They always point out that I must be a 'Grammar Nazi'. :shrug:
You did your son a solid service in teaching him how to express himself better.
Wow, an English teacher saying that... any that say that are doing a real disservice to their pupils, should be fired for that horrendous sentiment. Grammar is difficult, tough enough to teach without putting roadblocks in student's minds.
I told my son that you can think about a table or a dog or a shovel without words. You can picture them. But, concepts like honesty, decency, loyalty, responsibility are abstract and you have to use language to consider them. If you can't use language reasonably well, you can't think reasonably well.
I agree wholeheartedly with your statement here. My heart goes out to any poor soul attempting to learn English as a second language. The rules governing proper usage of English are convoluted and at times contradictory. The proof is in the pudding as the saying goes. An entirely too large of a percent[too great a percentage?] of native English speakers use grammar so bad [badly?]it's like nails on a chalkboard to me. I wonder (if someone with a more in depth understanding of a language other than English (I know a smattering of French and even less German) could educate me), do native speakers of other languages struggle to use proper grammar, or is that somewhat unique to English and it's overly complex grammatical system?
I think that that was precisely the point Orwell was making when he invented the idea of 'Newspeak'. Controlling language controls thinking. Telling people that using language well is unimportant is essentially saying that thinking is equally unimportant.
Bingo. A tourist visiting Oaxaca asked me, "What's wrong with Mexicans? I see so many people with Downs Syndrome."
"Well, two things. Families keep their children at home and take them to dinner on Sunday and take them shopping You see them around. A man I know and his daughter sit in a cafe in the zocalo and do her homework. The second thing is in Mexico they aren't killed."
"They aren't killed in the U.S., either."
"Really? I read that 87% of the amniocentesis tests that say the child might have Downs Syndrome result in an abortion."
"We don't consider that killing."
"How convenient. I don't consider strangling liberals as killing either."
We see the same thing happening with the word, euthanasia. It means a murder for a really nice reason but liberals want to pretend it's the same as assisted-suicide except the victim hasn't indicated he wants to die.
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