I’d love to see the extra typos on the first edition. There must have been so many that they forgot to fix the one on the front.
algernon
10 years ago
Looks like they need a third edition.
algernon
10 years ago
The companion to writing good
Seventy2rd o clock
10 years ago
Let’s wwite Engwish!
DrLex
10 years ago
Well, you can’t blame them. “Spelling” is not among the words shown at the right.
Seventy2rd o clock
10 years ago
3rd Edition:
‘Speake Happy’
Yay way to Miss Under Standing
Big Fat Cat
10 years ago
Buy Wliting Smalt fol Dummies before buying this one.
Seventy2rd o clock
10 years ago
My deey fyiends Mys. Baybaya Y. Yoay,
We at Pyinceton Yeview aye so happy, and pyoud because the wyiting woyds aye yeally stayting to tyanslate and / oy pyonounce bettey now (unlike that ‘learning perfect and straightforward English’ cyap befoye). So puye. And yemembey: Loyem ipsum doloy sit amet, consectetuy adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempoy incididunt ut laboye!
Thank you veyy much foy youy coopeyation.
Sinceye yegayds,
Mistey Edgay Yogeys, diyectoy
Big Fat Cat
10 years ago
sounds more like Yoda‘s guide to great writing .
jjhitt
10 years ago
The Step-By-Step Guide:
1) Slowly I turn….
Droll not Troll
10 years ago
Step-by-step guide, and then they stepped right in it.
iLock
10 years ago
Yeayyy? Soyyy, I mean really?
Seventy2rd o clock
10 years ago
1st step: Your writing needs to be improved
2nd step: Youy wyiting has been impyoved
3rd step: Yay … yy … yay … yyyy … yayyyyyyyyy yyyyyyyy….. !
4th step: *admires soft walls, occasional large men in white and that wonderful jacket*
coffeebot
10 years ago
only took an houy to read!!
Marum
10 years ago
For writing smart, you have to know how write English good.
Marum
10 years ago
Youy guide is a change from you’re guide.
Marum
10 years ago
Different engrish, same circus
Auntie
10 years ago
Sigh, “Writing Smartly”…but the publishers ignored their editor, Ms. Youy.
Filboid
10 years ago
But first youy have to thimk diffeyent!
RT
10 years ago
I am so smart! I am so smart. s-m-r-t! I mean, s-m-a-r-t!
Wyiting Smayt. You’rr rove this.
Unfortunately, Princeton did not review this.
I’d love to see the extra typos on the first edition. There must have been so many that they forgot to fix the one on the front.
Looks like they need a third edition.
The companion to writing good
Let’s wwite Engwish!
Well, you can’t blame them. “Spelling” is not among the words shown at the right.
3rd Edition:
‘Speake Happy’
Yay way to Miss Under Standing
Buy Wliting Smalt fol Dummies before buying this one.
My deey fyiends Mys. Baybaya Y. Yoay,
We at Pyinceton Yeview aye so happy, and pyoud because the wyiting woyds aye yeally stayting to tyanslate and / oy pyonounce bettey now (unlike that ‘learning perfect and straightforward English’ cyap befoye). So puye. And yemembey: Loyem ipsum doloy sit amet, consectetuy adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempoy incididunt ut laboye!
Thank you veyy much foy youy coopeyation.
Sinceye yegayds,
Mistey Edgay Yogeys, diyectoy
sounds more like Yoda‘s guide to great writing .
The Step-By-Step Guide:
1) Slowly I turn….
Step-by-step guide, and then they stepped right in it.
Yeayyy? Soyyy, I mean really?
1st step: Your writing needs to be improved
2nd step: Youy wyiting has been impyoved
3rd step: Yay … yy … yay … yyyy … yayyyyyyyyy yyyyyyyy….. !
4th step: *admires soft walls, occasional large men in white and that wonderful jacket*
only took an houy to read!!
For writing smart, you have to know how write English good.
Youy guide is a change from you’re guide.
Different engrish, same circus
Sigh, “Writing Smartly”…but the publishers ignored their editor, Ms. Youy.
But first youy have to thimk diffeyent!
I am so smart! I am so smart. s-m-r-t! I mean, s-m-a-r-t!
-homer simpson
Writing really smarts when your spelling is bad.
Much wisdom in every chaptey.
“Youy, youy, youy, youy…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9qb6Qtk7Kg
It looks like this has been fixed now: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FgEpK%2BhDL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
This might be a bootleg version shown here, though, anyway…
I have no idea why my words got spaced so weirdly there…
This would have never happened at Harvard.
Your guy to great writing
Who is Youy? We found his/her writing guide!
Youy know what you doing!
It’s ouy pleasure to read youy great article !
Hmm. Engrish or misstype?