Lessons Learned from “On Writing Well”

Re:Lessons Learned from “On Writing Well” by jasode on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:12PM (#13486731)

>, with a non-standard use of "front" as a verb

Fyi... it was an old style of speaking relevant to Thoreau's time. "Front" was another way of saying "confront". It's wasn't an example of "verbing" a noun in a nonstandard way.[1]

[1]http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25

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Re:Lessons Learned from “On Writing Well” by x1798DE on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @05:44PM (#13486983)

Yeah, I assumed it was something like that, just that if I were writing a book on writing clear non-fiction, I wouldn't use archaic language in my example sentences.

"Avoid unnecessary adverbs - for example, rather than saying 'Forsooth, wherefore didst thou traverse mine bed-chamber?", instead write 'Wherefore didst thou traverse mine bed-chamber?'"

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