Stanzas: Monthly Chapbooks April 2015: The Fool | Página 21

Quick Tips and Last Bits
Always Avoid Alliteration. It clutters the page like a perplexed penguin making
passages profoundly… bad.
And, while you’re at it, Avoid Clichés Like the Plague.
Loose | Lose.
Your jeans can be loose, just get a belt. But if you lose your jeans then a belt will
not suffice to cover up the nether regions.
Whether | Weather.
The weather changes, from rain to sun to wind, whether you like it or not.
Then | Than.
This one is a pet peeve for us at Stanzas. Then is time based. Something happened,
then something else happened. Than is relative. I’m better at grammar than you.
Compliment | Complement.
These are two completely different words meaning completely different things.
A compliment is something you give to the waitress with the flaxen hair or the body
building tutor in your Ethnic Diversity class. However, if something comes as a
complement, that means it comes free, which, I assure you, the waitress and tutor will
not appreciate you saying to them.
Alot | A lot.
Alot is not a word. Fact. It isn’t. Neither is Irregardless. Irregardless of whether
you use them alot or not, they are not words. Stop. Please. English has rules and they
shall be obeyed.
That said, rules are also made to br broken...

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