h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Editing your own work - A792533
Author: QED - U196029

There are a lot of entries on improved use of the English language. Can this one be added to those in the form of a link?

Thanks for your time,
QED

Hi QED,

you'd better talk with the authors of the entries you refer to, as they are all part of the Unedited Guide ie: the Editors don't touch them. Or you could set up a new entry and incorporate everything you think is necessessary. If so then you should of course credit the authors. It's a good idea to visit their personal spaces and (if they are still active) talk to them and perhaps combine your efforts.

OK I'll contact them.

Thank you for your time.

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Not to mention A792524 ghoti.

QED

wasn't it Churchill who used 'ghoti' already?

Hey there QED!

really like the idea of this entry.

Are you considering sedning this to the edited guide?
If you wanted to sned it to PeerReview somedaylet me know, I have a bunch of suggestions. But if you were happy with this contribution in the Guide (Unedited), they way it is, the entry is much fun and shouldn't be touched.

Cheers!

Good Job

Friar

Hi QED

Rather than just providing a model answer, how about going through the various points and explaining them?

In the lesson, I always go through the individual corrections explaining them and giving other examples of the same grammar point.

Perhaps I should add that fact to the entry.

Yes please I will send it to Peer Review and I would like to hear your suggestions.

QED

I told you 'Not to mention ghoti'.

Yes and Churchill is also credited with the dismissal of contrived ways of stopping a sentence ending in a preposition: 'That is something up with which I will not put.'