Brain Candy Will Guess Your Age
Feb 15, 2017 18:20:04 #
No sir don't. You are very understandable and precise. Mike
pafret wrote:
Do I write as though I'm mentally impaired? Self Image is a bitch, it makes it difficult to distinguish between fantasy and reality. I've often thought that I write just like Hemingway ----- you know, with a pencil and a notepad.
Feb 15, 2017 18:54:48 #
teabag09 wrote:
My high school Senior year English teacher admonished me for writing like Hemingway. Run on sentences, poor punctuation. I wrote like I thought. According to her, my stories and essays were wonderful to read but wrong. She told me that the difference between Hemingway and me was that " He knew the right way". Mike
OK so write it your way then go back and make it follow the 'rules'. After all, that's what editors do...
Feb 15, 2017 21:00:41 #
Too old for that now. I just write it my way. Mike
Larry the Legend wrote:
OK so write it your way then go back and make it follow the 'rules'. After all, that's what editors do...
Feb 15, 2017 21:05:42 #
teabag09 wrote:
My high school Senior year English teacher admonished me for writing like Hemingway. Run on sentences, poor punctuation. I wrote like I thought. According to her, my stories and essays were wonderful to read but wrong. She told me that the difference between Hemingway and me was that " He knew the right way". Mike
I don't know about Hemmingway being "right" but I noticed that he preferred very short 'punchy' sentences whereas mine tend to be paragraphs. I usually have to go back and split them up because sometimes, I can't follow my writing.
Feb 15, 2017 22:40:51 #
Larry the Legend wrote:
http://www.braincandy.net/?can-we-guess-your-age-by-your-general-knowledge
They missed mine by one year. Impressive....
They missed mine by one year. Impressive....
lol
missed by 30 years
dam wish I was 60 again
Feb 16, 2017 00:55:40 #
55 must be their default age. Got them all right, said I was 55 (actually, I'm 58).
Feb 16, 2017 07:18:58 #
Larry the Legend wrote:
They missed mine by twenty-two years. This makes me think, I had missed more than I should have. However, they blew smoke up my backside when estimating my age, made me appear better than I am. Still, I'd pay a lot of money to be the age, again, they guessed me as. I've often wondered what continues to drive people to acquire ever more wealth, as they age. Speaking from experience, the older I become, the less my ability to enjoy anything. Could be a security thing. However, if one could buy back youth....http://www.braincandy.net/?can-we-guess-your-age-by-your-general-knowledge
They missed mine by one year. Impressive....
They missed mine by one year. Impressive....
Feb 16, 2017 07:41:56 #
teabag09 wrote:
My high school Senior year English teacher admonished me for writing like Hemingway. Run on sentences, poor punctuation. I wrote like I thought. According to her, my stories and essays were wonderful to read but wrong. She told me that the difference between Hemingway and me was that " He knew the right way". Mike
My English teacher didn't indicate Hemingway wrote using run on's, and poor punctuation. She indicated that Hemingway wrote in fragments. A correct sentence has to have a subject and verb. A fragment sentence is missing one or the other, or both, I don't recall. As an example, the sentence: I don't recall. (I) is the subject. (Recall) is the verb, with (don't) being the helping word. That's how I remember it, anyway.
Feb 16, 2017 09:09:29 #
Richard Rowland wrote:
They missed mine by twenty-two years. This makes m... (show quote)
Some of the giants of industry came to the realization after a lifetime of accumulation of wealth that it wasn't going with them. Andrew Carnegie for instance, built free libraries and filled them with books in cities and towns all across this country. He left them with endowments sufficient to provide maintenance and acquisition, of new books for many years. My home town had one of those libraries and it was enormous. I got most of my education from the books available to me in that library. Carnegie was reputed to be as ruthless in pursuit of a buck as Rockefeller but at the end he finally shared some if his accumulation in a manner that benefited many people.
Feb 16, 2017 11:30:09 #
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