Writing and Humor

You’ve slaved over writing the perfect sentence. It makes sense to you and you know what you meant to say. Then someone else reads it and they have no idea what you’re talking about. We all make mistakes. It’s natural. You hate it when it happens. But remember, no one is perfect!

Can you find the humor in these sentences?

1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Be more or less specific.
4. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
5. Who needs rhetorical questions?
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. Avoid clichés like the plague. (They’re old hat.)
8. Whenever you feel sad, just remember that somewhere in the world there’s someone pulling a door that says “push.”
9. A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it isn’t open. – Frank Zappa
10.  Money can’t buy you happiness, but it’s more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes than on a bicycle.

And finally, our eyes play tricks on us: Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae.

Happy Tuesday!

Nancy Roe
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