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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/13/2007 11:45:09 AM   
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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/13/2007 12:51:31 PM   
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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/13/2007 12:54:23 PM   
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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/13/2007 12:56:36 PM   
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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/13/2007 7:13:33 PM   
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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/13/2007 7:26:45 PM   
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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/14/2007 5:54:22 AM   
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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/14/2007 6:59:16 AM   
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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/14/2007 3:17:53 PM   
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That was a good one, glg28!

The OP does invite original or borrowed material--but omits the point of proper credit. I readily admit that mine are a combination of original and borrowed--the trouble here is properly attributing credit, as many sources borrow (steal?) freely from each other. Then there's the issue of my memory--things I heard or saw long ago, but now can't remember when or where I first saw or heard them.

Kudos to those who did acknowledge their sources! And with that, here's a borrowed one:

If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.

Tim

P.S. Or as Yoda might say, "Correct on this, you are!"

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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/16/2007 6:35:23 AM   
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Placing a comma between subject and predicate, is not correct.

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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/16/2007 7:11:13 PM   
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“Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.”

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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/16/2007 8:53:36 PM   
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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/16/2007 8:54:48 PM   
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quote:

P.S. Or as Yoda might say, "Correct on this, you are!"


Sounding like Yoda, avoid you should.

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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/16/2007 8:56:05 PM   
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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/17/2007 7:12:11 PM   
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[But they do solve that Yoda problem....]

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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/17/2007 7:16:51 PM   
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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/19/2007 3:17:35 PM   
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Don’t get inebriated with the exuberance of your own verbosity to the extent of insipid consternation, promulgating unfettered obfuscation, lest a panoply of proxility proliferate.

[By the way, as Steven Wright asked: "What's another word for 'thesaurus'?"]

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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/19/2007 3:38:03 PM   
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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/19/2007 7:54:28 PM   
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RE: Writing Twisters - 1/19/2007 8:25:44 PM   
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