03-01-2013, 11:51 AM | #106 | |
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It was the wording in your post that was confusing. I thought you were saying in the UK braces are called suspenders, which as we have established beyond doubt they are not (and I'm from the UK too ). |
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But now that we know that braces = suspenders we can move forward.
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I thought dental braces were called retainers in the US?
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Retainers are a special category of braces. At least when my son was going through it, the braces were cemented onto the teeth. the retainer was something he slept in (til he lost it) but was removed during the day.
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when I had them back in the late 70's/early 80's, braces were the metal things that were actually glued onto your teeth; after those were removed, then you got a retainer to help keep the teeth in place. this page has a photo of retainers: http://metalmouthmedia.net/category/retainers/ |
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03-02-2013, 08:47 PM | #112 |
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People, we've moved on from dental implements. Give it a rest.
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Yes, back on topic, please.
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Here's the most recent example of what I would call "bad writing" that I've encountered. This passage caused me to immediately put down a book I was rather enjoying up to that point:
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03-03-2013, 09:38 AM | #116 |
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'Bad' is a word reserved for things that stink and for things that are inept and for writing that is bad, bad, bad - sometimes bad to the bone [cliche!] and sometimes 'surface bad,' as in lousy grammar skills and non-existant proofreading habits - wherein one allows a piece of work to be available for public consumption when it should actually be buried behind the barn or deposited in a nearby cesspool. (If you live in the city, then may I humbly suggest a nearby sewer?)
I have no problem at all in conveying (through writing) that his or her book or short story is bad, as long as I list what I feel are legitimate reasons. Sometimes, my writing may stink (it's that bad). I would suggest that perhaps your writing also stinks. (The 'your' in the previous sentence is directed toward anyone who may be reading this post.) If a writer can't take constructive criticism (and that's the key phrase, by the way), then that person should stay home and live a life of reclusive non-existence playing tiddly-winks. Don Last edited by Dr. Drib; 03-03-2013 at 09:41 AM. |
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Sometimes a writer has a novel take on things, but clumsy mechanics. Other writers make lovely sentences but put them together in banal structures. Really bad writers can't do either.
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A couple of years ago I spent a lot of time on short stories, to try and refine my writing style and voice, and also to see if I could get work accepted for publication. I would submit these small masterpieces to writing forums for comment and constructive criticism. It was an eye opener on what people consider valid critique of a work. 90% of the reviewers would pick up on the missing apostrophe (I think you meant army's instead of armies, ho ho ho,) but very few would comment on the actual content.
On one of these forums, I read a short story, all in CAPS and with absolutely no punctuation whatsoever, but it was a stunning piece of writing. Next to it was a piece that had been edited to within an inch of it's life, and yet it was banal, dull and uninteresting. It was one of the reasons I gave up the writers forums; I found that very few people actually wanted an honest review. |
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Did you ask people to ignore early-draft errors like that and to focus on content instead? |
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