Quoting Teddy Wayne quoting E.B. White,
It's good to laugh or even to chuckle a little, even though writing humor is not something that comes naturally to many of us. But we writers can try, even practice. Remember to consider your audience. If the supervisor you're writing that email to doesn't expect humor from you, it may be bye-bye job. Here are two more articles about writing humor: Seven Steps to Better Writing Humor and Humor Writing for People Who Aren’t Funny.
Jeff Wysaski at Pleated-Jeans has a page of Images That Prove Grammar and Punctuation Are Important. I like this one.
--Marge
Analyzing humor, as E.B. White famously said, is like dissecting a frog; few people are interested and the frog dies of it. Nonetheless, writing humor is a highly logical exercise — fit idea X into form Y for humorous result Z — and can therefore be broken down in ways that more slippery kinds of prose tend to resist. (Dissecting a Frog: How to Write a Humor Piece)Teddy could have used some quote marks and I could have written a sentence complete with subject and verb. Heads up, Grammar Nazis. If correcting people's grammar mistakes is your thing, you may enjoy contributing to Grammar Guy.
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It's good to laugh or even to chuckle a little, even though writing humor is not something that comes naturally to many of us. But we writers can try, even practice. Remember to consider your audience. If the supervisor you're writing that email to doesn't expect humor from you, it may be bye-bye job. Here are two more articles about writing humor: Seven Steps to Better Writing Humor and Humor Writing for People Who Aren’t Funny.
Jeff Wysaski at Pleated-Jeans has a page of Images That Prove Grammar and Punctuation Are Important. I like this one.
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| Grammar Meme, Pleated-Jeans |
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--Marge
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