[stylist] introduction+bonus grammar request

Donna Hill penatwork at epix.net
Wed Jan 5 20:49:40 UTC 2011 

Anita,
Thanks for posting this. I just took a quick look and it sounds like a 
great resource.
Donna

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On 1/5/2011 1:52 PM, Anita Adkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Donna has given you many wonderful ideas. In addition, you may find it 
> convenient to check out "The Purdue OWL: Grammar" at:
> http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/5/
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net>
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 1:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [stylist] introduction+bonus grammar request
>
>
> Hi Julie,
> Bookshare has the Chicago Manual of Style and the Elements of Style,
> which are both highly respected. NLS carries "The Elephants of Style"
> which is a great read and covers many of the controversies in modern
> writing rules. I'm sure RFB&D must have many books on grammar as well.
> Donna
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> On 1/5/2011 1:27 PM, Julie J wrote:
>> Heya all!
>>
>> I joined a bit ago and have been reading when I can.  I see lots of 
>> familiar people on this list.*waves*
>>
>> anyhow, I'm Julie. I live in eastern NE with my farmer husband, 
>> teenage son and two dogs.  I joined because I'm currently working on 
>> a book.   In the beginning it was fun and I loved to work on it.  Now 
>> I'm in the editing/rewriting/fixing phase.  It's not so fun.  I was 
>> hoping that someone would have a recommendation of a book or website 
>> that would help me with grammar.  Some of my sentences just don't 
>> flow well and others come up in the spell/grammar check with no 
>> recommendations of a fix.  If it makes a difference my writing style 
>> is very informal and the book is nonfiction.
>>
>> TIA
>> Julie
>>
>>
>>  ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net>
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>> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 12:12 PM
>> Subject: Re: [stylist] Hoody bit
>>
>>
>> Brad, Good job. You are a very creative man.
>> Donna
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>> On 1/5/2011 9:14 AM, Brad Dunse wrote:
>>> for a little self-amusement this morning :)
>>>
>>> The store manager was new so I suppose you really couldn't blame 
>>> him. I don't think he had much experience in this sort of thing 
>>> before, but after an incident such as this, I'm sure he's learned a 
>>> thing or two. A few of us tried to tell him early on but it was as 
>>> if he didn't even hear us, or as if he couldn't understand us at 
>>> all. It was almost like he didn't speak our language. Well, anyway… 
>>> we didn't push too hard because we had heard he was a bit hot under 
>>> the collar, though you really would not have thought that by just 
>>> looking at him. I mean his white pressed short sleeved shirt and 
>>> bright tan slacks were… hmmm alright. I mean the slacks weren't that 
>>> dark so they were OK. I mean he couldn't wear white slacks too or 
>>> he'd look like a doctor or something, you know, too clean and 
>>> proper. No, the light tan slacks were OK, too dark and well, you 
>>> know, *spoken in a whisper* the darky slacks… no matter how you try 
>>> to contrast them… because of their color they just send the wrong 
>>> message you know.
>>>
>>> I on the other hand, with my official medium sky blue long sleeves, 
>>> neatly pressed chest pockets, stiff unwrinkled collar standing proud 
>>> atop the wide shoulders, sharply contrasted dark blue slacks creased 
>>> commanding municipal respect being tied off at the waist by a shiny 
>>> black leather belt, knew this sort of thing happens from time to 
>>> time. I might have expected it too from the murmuring I thought I 
>>> heard earlier on in the evening.
>>>
>>> I'd say it happened somewhere around 11:00PM, shortly after closing 
>>> time and all the store personnel had gone home for the night. The 
>>> place was dark and only the security lights lit certain areas of the 
>>> store. The dress shirt section was well lit and out in the open, as 
>>> was the tank tops and plane sweat shirts. Even the wild carefree 
>>> T-shirts with their brazen multi-colored logos slapped on them like 
>>> cheap chest tattoos were out in the open. There were others though 
>>> that were hidden in the shadows of the security lights. If anyone 
>>> should have been hidden from the light it should really have been 
>>> the negligees and unmentionables but no, it wasn't that way, not 
>>> like other stores with… well you see, this is where the store 
>>> manager… well I'm sure he knows now, but it always has to come to 
>>> something like this before anything is done about it.
>>>
>>> As I said I think it had to be a little after 11:00PM, shortly after 
>>> closing time, maybe 11:30PM I'm not really sure. I was standing 
>>> there quiet-like, the store was all still. And out of the buzzing 
>>> noise of the scantly illuminating fluorescents, I thought I heard 
>>> this whispering. At first I wasn't sure but then it seemed to get 
>>> louder. Sure enough I began to hear these voices and right away I 
>>> knew what was happening. Their accent and dialect gave them away 
>>> even in the darkness. As the murmuring grew louder I began to pick 
>>> out what was being said.
>>>
>>> "Look at you mon weeth your foncy stripes and pressed coalars... get 
>>> a load ofe deece guy mon... oh... tsk tsk tsk. Aw. Jew popped a 
>>> coople boatens. Aw Chus like deece one here, dos a shame mon".
>>>
>>> I knew right then we had trouble and it wasn't going to be pretty. 
>>> But what was I to do. The manager had me clipped up on the display 
>>> wall with arms stretched out like I was being crucified. I'm telling 
>>> you, I mean I'm not saying? I'm just saying. You know, I think the 
>>> manager had a lot of missed responsibility here. New or not, well 
>>> anyway, I could hear things were heating up from another section ...
>>>
>>> "Hey man look at this feller. he's a thinkin' he's purdy smart wit 
>>> dat Rayon tag he's a sportin' there. Well I'll just..."
>>>
>>> And then I heard this horrible tearing sound. I mean he made off 
>>> like he was going to rip off just the tag but it sounded like he 
>>> tore the whole arm off the guy. All this was happening just around 
>>> the corner where I couldn't quite get a good look at who the trouble 
>>> makers were, but I knew.. Oh, I knew alright. It was easy for the 
>>> cops to tell too when they finally came in the next morning.
>>>
>>> But anyway pinned helpless there I heard another scream, I looked 
>>> and finally I could see something of what was going on just outside 
>>> of the shadows. It was coming from the negligee section.
>>>
>>> "Get your hands off me you, you... you... piece of white... help! 
>>> Help!"
>>>
>>> I looked over and it confirmed my suspicion. The upper part of his 
>>> garment was the tell tale thing but with Lederhosen? I mean that's 
>>> an odd combination but these trouble makers, they'll wear anything 
>>> for an identity that draws attention to them.
>>>
>>> All of a sudden the voices got louder. The trouble makers with there 
>>> accents and dialects were pushing shoving and ripping everyone off 
>>> their hangers. You could hear shirts drop to the floor, some in just 
>>> a protective fetal position, and others because they were yanked off 
>>> the rack, thrown down and stomped. Screams and torrents of 
>>> obscenities rang out along with fabric names. Cotton, Rayon, Wool, 
>>> Polyester Blend, you name it and it was yelled out just before they 
>>> were beaten or tore to shreds. If attacking them for their textile 
>>> ethnicity wasn't good enough, the troublemakers began spewing out 
>>> styles. V-necks, tank tops, button down, short sleeve, long sleeve, 
>>> no sleeve, it didn't matter they were out to make their mark in the 
>>> clothing section of the store. cries for help rang out one after 
>>> another and like I say, there I was pinned against the wall in "nail 
>>> me to the cross" mode, unable to do anything.
>>>
>>> Well, by the time the store manager got there in the morning every 
>>> stitch of clothing was tossed on the floor. Buttons lay randomly in 
>>> the isles along with ripped off collars, pockets and sleeves. 
>>> Hangers littered the main isle next to crumpled broken plastic 
>>> displays and metal tubular hanging racks tipped over. I was lucky 
>>> enough to have landed face down with the top of my display wall 
>>> propped up against the feet of the denim shirt's round rack that was 
>>> in front of me before all this started, so I wasn't crushed. Yes, 
>>> every stitch of clothing was either tore, had its buttons popped, 
>>> its buckles wrenched off, or otherwise destroyed. When the humans 
>>> walked in only one set of garments was left sitting untouched and 
>>> only slightly misarranged according to size as if they scampered to 
>>> return to the rack before someone saw.
>>>
>>> That's when they knew who caused all this trouble. Those 
>>> troublemakers the hoodys. Its always the hoodys, you can't trust a 
>>> one of them I tel ya. And it doesn't matter if they have draw 
>>> straps, are pull overs or zip, have tattoos on their chest like the 
>>> T-shirts or not. No matter what color, solid or multi-colored, they 
>>> all were there hanging presuming innocence while the rest of us lay 
>>> in a shambles on the store manager's pretty little floor.
>>>
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