AlastairSC
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1. Always avoid alliteration.
This is actually an example of assonance, not alliteration.
So do you have one for pedantry?
1. Always avoid alliteration.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid clichés like the plague - they're old hat.
4. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
5. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
6. All generalisations are wrong.
7. Foreign words are not a propos.
8. Comparisions are as bad as clichés.
9. Eschew circumlocatory methods of communicating the intended concept to the recipient.
10. Understatement is always best.
11. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
12. The passive voice is to be avoided.
13. If a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
14. Who needs rhetorical questions?
15. Exaggeration is a million times worse than understatement..
16. No redundancies; don't use more words than necessary; it's superfluous.
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both [rhyming vowel internal to the line of verse = assonance, not end rhyme]
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could [rhyming initial consonants = alliteration]
To where it bent in the undergrowth
Alastair wins this round
Everyone highly recommended.
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