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It has sick on the sleeve. And no apostrophe.
Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
I believe it stands for 'mother I'd like to ... befriend,
An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.
Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
Optional is latin for 'Be There'.
Late
for the present, I suppose
accentuated each time
you see, quick enough
this fraction of earth
underfoot
that upright speech
imprints,
like the whole of being
resumes
We've hit on something like lightning strikes
manuscript
meanuscript
moanuscript
manurescript
and so on
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
(Letter 16, 1657)
X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.
I'm trying to cut down my cursing.
R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis".
Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two thirds of college graduates.
Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular)
Etc. is a perfect word-when you can't think of the right one.
Could a name be any shorter? Three letters without even the flourish of an e. Ann, a trio of curves and lines.
It means "full of grace".
Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
prestidigitator,
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
Writing's in the nouns.
Trying to straighten the question mark!
Your little r changes the status of a single lady 'Ms' into a respectable lady 'Mrs'. Man, you make the difference!
All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.
Instruct efficiently.
Instruct effectively.
Instruct exceptionally.
Instruct excellently.
Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
Well, I am more partial to a semicolon myself.
You darling is my semicolon.
TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange and undignified.
Sesquihoral (adj.) Lasting an hour and a half. Because sometimes you just don't feel like saying "an hour and a half." Short-thinker
A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.
If you write science fiction you can spell things the way you like, sometimes.
[To Jean Harlow, who repeatedly mispronounced her first name:] No, no, Jean. The t is silent, as in Harlow.
It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
I am a woman committed to
a politics
of transliteration, the methodology
of a mind
stunned at the suddenly
possible shifts of meaning - for which
like amnesiacs
in a ward on fire, we must
find words
or burn.
You can't take over the world without a good acronym
The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one:
ETC.
For 'worship' is an abbreviation of 'worthship'.
Use the right word, not its second cousin.
I'm a businesswoman, and Ms. is an appropriate form of address.
I wrote it three times - with a Thesaurus.
Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication and keeping communication good as we grow is incredibly important.
ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.
What does he stand for?
You can't read my shorthand because I wrote in Polish.
Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?
I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.
Introducing 'Lite': the new way to spell 'Light'; but with twenty per cent fewer letters.
Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.
Everything starts from a dot.
Instruct humbly.
Instruct happily.
Instruct hopefully.
Instruct honorably.
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can.
Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.
Spare me the goddamn ellipses." He hissed.
My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.
For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck?
In laboring to be concise, I become obscure.
[Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]
That's an L, as in love, and I love you more than I'll ever be able to tell you with words. I want to tell you in other ways. In the way I kiss you. In the way I touch you. In the way I hold you. Won't you let me say it my way, just once? - Swift to Amy
one of the worst things about electronic communication. Lacking facial expression, tone of voice, or context, words could be taken any number of ways. With only one cryptic word now, I was discouraged.
Someday I will tell my grandchildren that I lived in the era when OK was abbreviated to K.
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
Write it down in your own handwriting.
Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.
Q.= WHO AM I? WHO ARE YOU?
U.G = You are what you are doing RIGHT NOW!
Googol?' 'That's a one with one hundred zeroes after it.
Margaret laughed. "Sure thing. Sorry, Ave. I'll go and get the tea." Ave. If Avice had been feeling less awful, she would have corrected her: there was nothing worse than an abbreviated name.
Sometimes i want to say it. and there is nothing in english. that will say it.
Suit the action to the word, the
Word to the action.
Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.
Omit needless words.
As a rule, any loan that had been turned into an acronym or abbreviation could more clearly be called a "subprime loan," but the bond market didn't want to be clear.
A slightly uncommon condition of the some-long-word. Nothing at all serious, but it just needs putting right. A simple treatment.
Briefer is better, so learn to write tight
If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for six months in a submarine.
Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some."
Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.
Catchy acronym in the consulting world, "MECE," which stands for "mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive.
H for Hurry, E for Er-gent, L for Love Me Do and P for Please, pl-ea-se help me!' pleaded Fred.
Ringo creaked open the door. 'Your story has touched my heart ... Come in.'
'Bless you!'
'Did I sneeze?' Ringo smiled.
If. A two-letter word for futility.
The transliterated name and address of the addresser of the 3 letters in reversed alphabetic boustrophedonic punctated quadrilinear cryptogram (vowels suppressed) N. IGS./WI. UU. OX/W. OKS. MH/Y. IM:
As Athera. To grow.
As Pyrata. To burn.
As Illumae. To light.
As Orense. To open.
As Anase. To dispel.
As Hasari. To heal.
As Travars. To Travel.
I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym.
Lab126's name itself is a play on A to Z, with 1 representing the first letter of the alphabet and 26 the last.)
In trying to be concise I become obscure.
To be is to stand for.
How do you write zero in Roman numerals?
L'chaim. It means 'to life.
Remember, "I" before "E", except in Budweiser.
Triump is just a little umph added to try.
Check it out. I got a new name tag today." He unclipped it and held it out toward me.
I looked at it. "A. GUY."
He grinned. "Someone actually asked me what the A stood for," he said, his hand brushing mine as he took the tag back, sliding it into his pocket. "I said Larry.
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out
Off, end this lies it's not awesome. Please take this crap, second very clever and smart, but I want to add suffix (-ass), it's very suitable, isn't it?
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I bought a clock, but the big hand broke off of it ... so I just added "ish" to every number.
Wabe. Maybe it's initials for something like Will All Babies Expectorate.
By-and-by is easily said.
What is another name for a Thesaurus?
O be some other name.
... [T]he letters of the alphabet (two Cs, a large D; the combination of Y, S, and L) belong on an ophthalmologist's chart. For the Parisienne, luxury should never be spelled out.