It’s one more of your tales.
Another story you’re telling.
Can’t you be honest?
Tell me the truth.
For once.
(20 words)
Written for Bulbul’s Twenty Words Tuesday prompt, where this weeks word is “story.”
Day: May 25, 2021
Contemptuous
“They’re all a bunch of frickin’ liars. They can’t conjure up a lucid thought between any of those scurrilous crumb-bums. I have the utmost contempt for every last one of them,” Dan said.
“Take a deep breath, Dan,” the school’s principal said, “and find your serenity. I know that attempting to manage all of them can be challenging, but try to remember that they’re just second graders, not politicians.
Written for these daily prompts: Ragtag Daily Prompt (liars), Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (lucid), Word of the Day Challenge (scurrilous), MMA Storytime (crumb), Your Daily Word Prompt (utmost), and The Daily Spur (serenity).
Truthful Tuesday — The Grammar Police
Frank, aka PCGuy, has published another one of his Truthful Tuesday posts, and this week Frank wants to know…
What are your thoughts on Grammar? Are you part of the Grammar Police, or are you a Syntax and Spelling Renegade? Explain.
Blogging is a communications medium that relies on the written word. I believe that to be effective communications via the written word requires at least a fundamental proficiency in punctuation, grammar, and usage.
Thus, I’m more on the grammar police side of the equation. And to illustrate my point, I’m not a fan of the way that Frank used capitalization in his question for this prompt. Why did he capitalize the words “grammar,” “grammar police,” “syntax,” and “spelling renegade” in his question? Not only was it grammatically wrong to do so, but it was totally unnecessary.
On the other hand, we bloggers are only human and we make mistakes and typos. Most of us don’t have an editor on retainer to review our drafts and to correct our grammar, punctuation, usage, or spelling errors. So sometimes our posts aren’t grammatically perfect.
And I concur with Frank about using “text speech” in blog posts (like “U” and “K” for “you” and “okay,” respectively). That’s not okay.
Bottom line, I believe that, as Marshall McLuhan said, the medium is the message, and that blogging is a medium of the written word. Hence, for a blogger to get his or her message across, proper grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling are a must.
So sayeth Fandango, a member in good standing of the grammar police.
FOWC with Fandango — Lucid
Welcome to May 25, 2021 and to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge (aka, FOWC). It’s designed to fill the void after WordPress bailed on its daily one-word prompt.
I will be posting each day’s word just after midnight Pacific Time (US).
Today’s word is “lucid.”
Write a post using that word. It can be prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. It can be any length. It can be just a picture or a drawing if you want. No holds barred, so to speak.
Once you are done, tag your post with #FOWC and create a pingback to this post if you are on WordPress. Please check to confirm that your pingback is there. If not, please manually add your link in the comments.
And be sure to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this prompt. You will marvel at their creativity.
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