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Elements of Style is great for undergraduates writing an essay for a Humanities class, its audience. Oher options for general prose: William Zinsser's On Writing Well, Joseph Williams Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace, and for general prose style revision help, Richard Lanham Revising Prose

I'll be right over . . .

It is worth remembering the origin of nice: [Middle English, foolish, from Old French, from Latin nescius, ignorant, from nescīre, to be ignorant; see NESCIENCE.] AHD: ahdictionary.com/word/search.... It's only been complimentary since the late 1800s

Yet again I will repost this (because the link periodically trashes itself).

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So typical of Niccolo Machiavelli. Always trying to get the jump on the sly. “It is better to be feared than loved, if one cannot be both,” and “The end justifies the means.” He’s just pissed because your book is way better than either of his.

Yeah, finish. I got time to read after years of not. I've got slots with your name on hem.

Musk is as usual posting ahistoric bullshit.

I'm so sorry Greg.

Heck what about Christ i the temple? Matthew 21:12-13,Mark 11:15-18

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@jenniferbrozek.bsky.social is right; bots screwing with the pricing. I think Writer Beware wrote about it a couple years ago.

I still have a bunch of Chaucee on vinyl (Knight's Tale is 4 double-sided recors), Alice in Wonderland, Richard Burton readin John Donne, and Alice in Wonderland on 12 double-sided records. But I am ancient of days.

Been bitterly disillusioning

A screenshot of a tweet by Ken Dilanian quoting concerns that an order to kill boat occupants who are no longer able to fight would constitute a war crime. Below is a collage of nine infrared or night-vision aerial images showing small boats in the water. At the bottom is a caption referencing “Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike.”

During WWII a German vessel fired upon sailors floating in the sea after the Greek vessel Peleus was sunk. The officers were tried and convicted in the Peleus War Crimes trial.

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I was one of the four people who got canned.

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the worms lol

It resonates

Another clue is that they mix tone/register in inapproriate ways. I think anyone who has read slush or thousands of undergrad papers can spot current AIs.

Honestly, there are tells for each of the AIs but not the ones people think. The first clue is that they each have preferred sentence patterns. Even naïve writers have more variety.

Nobody--and I mean nobody--gets a Nazi tattoo by accident.

ICE is misbehaving in Portland again tonight. As soon as it’s dark they turn on flood lights and release tear gas while protesters hang out across the street so propagandists can take pix making it look like a riot.

College journalists are not only the most passionate in all of media but also are college students who will totally stay up all night to make this happen.