I’d love to see the extra typos on the first edition. There must have been so many that they forgot to fix the one on the front.
algernon
9 years ago
Looks like they need a third edition.
algernon
9 years ago
The companion to writing good
Seventy2rd o clock
9 years ago
Let’s wwite Engwish!
DrLex
9 years ago
Well, you can’t blame them. “Spelling” is not among the words shown at the right.
Seventy2rd o clock
9 years ago
3rd Edition:
‘Speake Happy’
Yay way to Miss Under Standing
Big Fat Cat
9 years ago
Buy Wliting Smalt fol Dummies before buying this one.
Seventy2rd o clock
9 years ago
My deey fyiends Mys. Baybaya Y. Yoay,
We at Pyinceton Yeview aye so happy, and pyoud because the wyiting woyds aye yeally stayting to tyanslate and / oy pyonounce bettey now (unlike that ‘learning perfect and straightforward English’ cyap befoye). So puye. And yemembey: Loyem ipsum doloy sit amet, consectetuy adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempoy incididunt ut laboye!
Thank you veyy much foy youy coopeyation.
Sinceye yegayds,
Mistey Edgay Yogeys, diyectoy
Big Fat Cat
9 years ago
sounds more like Yoda‘s guide to great writing .
jjhitt
9 years ago
The Step-By-Step Guide:
1) Slowly I turn….
Droll not Troll
9 years ago
Step-by-step guide, and then they stepped right in it.
iLock
9 years ago
Yeayyy? Soyyy, I mean really?
Seventy2rd o clock
9 years ago
1st step: Your writing needs to be improved
2nd step: Youy wyiting has been impyoved
3rd step: Yay … yy … yay … yyyy … yayyyyyyyyy yyyyyyyy….. !
4th step: *admires soft walls, occasional large men in white and that wonderful jacket*
Wyiting Smayt. You’rr rove this.
Unfortunately, Princeton did not review this.
I’d love to see the extra typos on the first edition. There must have been so many that they forgot to fix the one on the front.
Looks like they need a third edition.
The companion to writing good
Let’s wwite Engwish!
Well, you can’t blame them. “Spelling” is not among the words shown at the right.
3rd Edition:
‘Speake Happy’
Yay way to Miss Under Standing
Buy Wliting Smalt fol Dummies before buying this one.
My deey fyiends Mys. Baybaya Y. Yoay,
We at Pyinceton Yeview aye so happy, and pyoud because the wyiting woyds aye yeally stayting to tyanslate and / oy pyonounce bettey now (unlike that ‘learning perfect and straightforward English’ cyap befoye). So puye. And yemembey: Loyem ipsum doloy sit amet, consectetuy adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempoy incididunt ut laboye!
Thank you veyy much foy youy coopeyation.
Sinceye yegayds,
Mistey Edgay Yogeys, diyectoy
sounds more like Yoda‘s guide to great writing .
The Step-By-Step Guide:
1) Slowly I turn….
Step-by-step guide, and then they stepped right in it.
Yeayyy? Soyyy, I mean really?
1st step: Your writing needs to be improved
2nd step: Youy wyiting has been impyoved
3rd step: Yay … yy … yay … yyyy … yayyyyyyyyy yyyyyyyy….. !
4th step: *admires soft walls, occasional large men in white and that wonderful jacket*
only took an houy to read!!
For writing smart, you have to know how write English good.
Youy guide is a change from you’re guide.
Different engrish, same circus
Sigh, “Writing Smartly”…but the publishers ignored their editor, Ms. Youy.
But first youy have to thimk diffeyent!
I am so smart! I am so smart. s-m-r-t! I mean, s-m-a-r-t!
-homer simpson
Writing really smarts when your spelling is bad.
Much wisdom in every chaptey.
“Youy, youy, youy, youy…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9qb6Qtk7Kg
It looks like this has been fixed now: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FgEpK%2BhDL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
This might be a bootleg version shown here, though, anyway…
I have no idea why my words got spaced so weirdly there…
This would have never happened at Harvard.
Your guy to great writing
Who is Youy? We found his/her writing guide!
Youy know what you doing!
It’s ouy pleasure to read youy great article !
Hmm. Engrish or misstype?