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29 Jul 2024 00:31:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: I should not have looked it up.  
From: Invisible
Date: 1 Aug 2012 03:57:00
Message: <5018e14c$1@news.povray.org>
On 01/08/2012 07:39 AM, waggy wrote:
> Well, I defended my thesis the other day and learned that my professors all
> despise my writing style. One committee member advised me to reorganize and
> rewrite the entire thing, with these specific instructions, "All your sentences
> should be subject-verb-object and no more than three lines long."

Wait, what? You wrote a sentence that was /more/ than 3 lines long? What 
are you, a lawyer? ;-)

> A student learned that at his school
> He should write like a blathering fool
> Only subject-verb-noun
> Like some brain-damaged clown
> or a JavaScript markov-chain tool

I gotta get me some Markov chains some day...


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