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Bumfketeer	Post subject: Two useless words Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2002 10:13 pm
Joined: Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 3557 Location: Cusp of retirement, grave or both	Why begin a sentence with the phrase "in fact?" What the hell does it ever add to anything?
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drew4au	Post subject: Re: Two useless words Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2002 12:00 am
Joined: Fri May 17, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 102 Location: A compromise between Man's Euclidean determinations and Nature's beguiling irregularities.	Got the memo yet? Reporters are supposed to write write whatever they want to. It's part of developing a unique voice -- or something else having to do with "powerful storytelling." They teach you all about it at the National Writers Workshop, so it must be true.
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Bumfketeer	Post subject: Re: Two useless words Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2002 12:13 am
Joined: Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 3557 Location: Cusp of retirement, grave or both	I get sick of taking it out.
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jbm	Post subject: Re: Two useless words Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2002 1:14 am
Joined: Wed Nov 20, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 83 Location: New York	Another useless word: Currently. <p>99 percent of the time, it adds nothing: Police are currently investigating. <p>What, present tense isn't good enough on its own?
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Rio	Post subject: Re: Two useless words Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2002 3:54 am
Joined: Thu Apr 11, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 887 Location: U.S.A.	<blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica ,sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Drew4AU: Got the memo yet? Reporters are supposed to write write whatever they want to. It's part of developing a unique voice -- or something else having to do with "powerful storytelling." They teach you all about it at the National Writers Workshop, so it must be true.<hr></blockquote><p>This would be funny, except that it was the de facto policy of one of my former employers. There they called it "writing as people speak." Unfortunately, the "people" most of the paper's reporters used as their role models obviously were semiliterate morons.
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