“In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, oh great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language! Without you, how not to fall into despair at the sight of everything that is happening at home?? But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people!»
AND.WITH. Turgenev “Russian language” (1882)
Good afternoon, dear readers and blog authors.
You may have noticed that recently there has been a sharp drop in the quality of texts in the blog section of our favorite site. After reading some of them I want to cry. And with bloody tears.
It seems to me that this has something to do with the influx of “fresh blood” to the site, in the form of young users, many of whom are trying themselves as authors for the first time.
In 2004, when I was studying at the university, we held a master class on writing scripts for television commercials. At the end, among other materials, all those present were given a memo containing recommendations for using the “great and mighty” for its intended purpose.
I found the most complete version of this manual on the Internet and present it to your attention.
I hope this memo will help novice authors in writing their first texts, and maybe it will also be of interest to some experienced users: after all, who among us is without sin??
Bad advice on the Russian language
• A metaphor is a nail in https://playcrococasino.co.uk/mobile-app/ a shoe, and it’s best to weed it out.
• An inappropriate analogy in the text looks like a fur coat tucked into underpants.
• UV. emb.! So abbreviated. only. wisdom.!
• Who needs rhetorical questions??
• If incomplete structures are bad.
• Stringing nouns on top of each other makes it difficult to understand the method for solving the equation.
• It is our deep conviction that an author, when he writes a text, should definitely not acquire the bad habit of using too many unnecessary words, which in fact are not at all necessary to express his thought.
• No narcissistic Bank, its President and Chairman of the Board of Directors are capitalized.
• Modesty of presentation is always the absolute best way to present great ideas.
• Consciously resist the temptation to remain in tune.
• An unexpected verse will upset the mood of your readers.
• A verse where rhyme is built on verbs is the very first one to be thrown into the trash heap.
• Clarifications in parentheses (although significant) are (usually) unnecessary.
• If you want to be understood correctly, do not use foreign language and barbarisms. Ferstein?
• For the sake of presentation, be a creative promoter of native Russian synonyms for top positions in the preference rankings.
• Ending a sentence with a pronoun is bad style, that’s not what it’s for.
• For those who end a sentence with a preposition, send them to. Not for the sake of rudeness, but for order.
• NEVER don’t abuse highlighting words. Human, reading text with multiple secretions, feels, that his own understanding of meaning is not trusted.
• Try to avoid invective language, p#darasy!
• Be more or less specific.
• In articles, texts, posts, use commas when listing.
• Do not use commas where they are not needed.
• Colleagues should be highlighted somehow.
• When using an adverbial phrase, always separate it with commas.
• The participial phrase after the word being defined is separated by commas.
• Coming before the word being defined, the participial phrase is not separated by commas.
• Introductory words should however be separated by commas.
• However, some words can be both introductory words and conjunctions that do not require a comma.
• Of course, highlight the introductory construction with commas.
• Moreover, some words, literally very similar to introductory words, should never be separated with commas.
• Oh, they are literate, separating integral combinations of interjections with a comma.
• Don’t make riddles out of the ellipsis at the end of an exhaustive sentence..
• Don’t use ellipsis instead of commas and periods…it’s not necessary..
• Use… ellipses… only to… indicate pauses… when there is an unexpected… transition… from one thought… to another, so that. Or an unexpected transition between complete sentences that.
Other punctuation marks
• Put the correct long dashes, with spaces, and the hyphen a little – a little shorter, without spaces.
• If only some rule regarding words with hyphens was at least somehow observed. Firstly, the hyphen is not written in some way and in some places, it’s not common to people, it’s not our way. And secondly, whenever and wherever used correctly, it pleases the eye and soul of the reader.
• Do you remember to put a question mark at the end of a sentence?. And, for goodness sake, put an exclamation point at the end of the exclamation.
• You don’t know, haven’t seen, you shouldn’t and won’t write “not” with verbs separately.
• No need to use unnecessary negations anywhere.
• In addition, not one author who understands when to write “not” and when “neither” can count on encouragement.
• In interrogative sentences where negation is logically emphasized, “not” is written separately, isn’t it?? Or is it not true?
• The word “no” has no forms of change.
• Young people who are not dense, the gender of the noun and the brevity of the adjective are the key to understanding the need for a soft sign after the hissing at the end of the word.
• A soft sign in the indefinite form of a verb must be determined by its presence in the question of the verb, which is sometimes forgotten.
• Don’t forget about the letter “е”, otherwise you won’t be able to distinguish between case and case, sky and sky, donkey and donkey, perfect and complete, everything and everyone, rest and rest.
• Repeating all repeated words with the same root is a tautology – unnecessary redundancy.
• One exclamation mark is enough. 111
• Handle doubled consonants with care.
• Having wiped ourselves in the corridors of offices, in the future we will become knowledgeable and will come to the conclusion that our texts will contain fewer and fewer unnecessary letters.
• A small remark about repetitions that are sometimes found in articles that are published both here and abroad, which sometimes cloud the idea that the author wanted to express, about which we wanted to make this remark.
• And by the way, never, yes, never use unnecessary repetitions.
• Having poor knowledge of grammar, complex constructions should be used with caution.
• The work must be carefully proofread accurately.
• Show off your subtle sense of language when writing unpronounceable consonants.
• Check the text for missing words.
• The use of terms whose meaning you do not fully understand can lead to affective insinuations addressed to you.
• Numerals can be declined in one hundred and twenty-five ways, but only one of them is correct.
Thank you all for your attention.
And remember: it’s not only what you wanted to write that matters, but also how you did it.
Useful links
Information provided by the user SkyKoala. For which I thank him very much!
Coordination of participial phrases: in general, complex cases
How to distinguish participles and verbal adjectives and write N and NN in them correctly: here and a little easier here (differences between “doubled consonants” and “doubled consonants”, “fried” and “fried”)
Singular and plural predicate (“Many publishers have presented?) their new products at E3”, “there were 500 accounts?) banned?)")
Diploma helps to distinguish one part of speech from another and use commas, and context helps in translations.reverso.net. There is also an excellent guide on proofreading translations from Zone of Games.
“Chronic or deliberate illiteracy is also not welcome. Respect your native language and other site participants. Remember that others may simply find it unpleasant to read clumsy answers riddled with errors.»
“Rules of communication on StopGame.ru"
Version dated July 30, 2014.