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Incredible lack of editing in a post on writing. Otherwise sound advice, but of course the old tenet still applies: learn all the rules, then discard them.
by luxpir 5y ago
Incredible lack of editing in a post on writing.
Otherwise sound advice, but of course the old tenet still applies: learn all the rules, then discard them.
- syntaxfree 5y ago“These teachings are like a tree trunk you hold onto in order to cross the river, and the discard”. Quoting from memory.
- cxr 5y agoIndeed. Related, the TK section looks to be plagiarized from the writer that the author of this piece cites as inspiration. It's pretty weird.
- Veen 5y agoPerhaps, but use of TK as a placeholder is fairly common. I've been using it for years, and I learned it from a jounalism handbook, IIRC. It's quite embarassing when you forget to replace them before you publish though, so I have a section in my Markdown to docx/pdf/whatever Pandoc build scripts that errors if there are any remaining TKs.
- cxr 5y ago> Perhaps, but use of TK as a placeholder is fairly common. "But"?