Foggy Language

* I Want A Girl Just Like The Girl That Married Dear Old Dad.

Even a snappy style can be thwarted if the language gets foggy enough.

Big Words

In too many offices, employees are reqarded for mimicking the writing style of superiors.

Writing Tricks

Booklets and articles on "Helpful Hints for Writers" trivializes the subject and suggests that writing well is a matter of tricks and gimmicks. It isn't.

Weak Verbs

* From the movie, "The Cowboy and the Gerund."

Rhetorical question: Ever hear John Wayne talk in passive verbs? How about Clint Eastwood?

Weak Verbs, again

Throwing out of the umpire is demanded.

Over-writing

It's lucky every organization message doesn't have to go through what so many of them do.