> > A friend of mine is an English major, and a fairly decent writer. She usually has a class each semester where the students trade and critique each others' work. The passage mentioned below reminded me of a lot of the stuff she brings home to read.
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> > Bal"Maybe their strength lies in something other than prose"anthalus
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> Darn, I wish I'd known about that... I really should have, too, considering it's done by the English department at my university, and I'm a creative writing minor... bah!
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> At least it's bad on purpose. It's when you get things like that written in all seriousness that it's truly frightening...
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> Sosi"Bill and Sue had never met, and were as nervous as two hummingbirds who had also never met"qui


Actually, that one may not have been written in all seriousness. On a list of "worst analogies..." I found a bunch by the same guy that I suspect were tongue in cheek. Among them, the following:

"John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met."

"Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center."

"The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't."

They strike me as rather clever. I insist on believing the badness is intentional (if only to help me sleep at night.)

Lirelyn