For example: In order to respond to all these challenges, and in particular the latter, the paper industry, together with all interested parties (particularly the state authorities) must bring about the infrastructures and conditions to improve and increase the physical availability of wood, specifically through the implementation of forestry policies that manage to be simultaneously more creative in environmental terms, fairer, and economically consistent.
Phew! Did you get all of that? Yeah. Well, in case you didn't, welcome to my world!
Here's a picture. It's the Lee Building on the corner of Colesville Road and Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland.
And to get us in a holiday mood after my little rant about Christmas here, here is a classic.
* For the record, I love this writing project. It's allowing me to work with my favorite former boss of all time, a guy who should win the award and be held up as an example of what constitutes good leadership. If more bosses were like him, productivity would shoot through the roof and people would want to get up in the morning and go to work. Working for him again is bliss. (And contrary to my mumblings, I'm actually enjoying this project. I just thought I'd be done with it a lot sooner is all.)
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16 comments:
Taking a break from my own editing job. The writer of this project doesn't use run-on sentences. She uses unrelated sentences. She also likes the word "it," which could mean anything or anyone. I think your run-on sentences are more maddening than the crap I'm editing, though.
Stunning picture, by the way.
- Phoebe
Grinch is classic. Nice choice!
Pheebs: I'll trade you! I think unrelated sentences would be a welcome, brief respite from run-ons.
Katherine: I heart the Grinch!
Nice photo! It looks like a giant robot named Lee.
Awesome photo, I love the colors and the lines.
Great song! It was one of the first I heard this morning on the radio. And then to find it here, delightful.
Oh, and that sentence made my brain hurt.
Cyndy: Thanks! It kind of does look like a robot, now you mention it...
Cele: Thank you! Serendipity on the song! And if that sentence made your brain hurt, I have others that will make it explode.
I'm so glad you are loving your work again!!!
- Di
Sometimes when I'm grading papers it feels like I'm reading a foreign language. They alternate between run-in sentences and sentence fragments. What do they think they're doing? Writing a blog post?
Yeah for the Grinch!
Di: I LOVE my work again. I love working for "D" again. He's just the greatest. If I can land a longer-term gig working for him and my former employer again, that would be bliss!
Dingo: I think that's part of why I didn't go into teaching. The thought of reading reams of bad writing was more than I could bear. You, on the other hand, are a saint for doing so!
OH I LOVE THE GRINCH, maybe cause I am getting more like him every day. I actually had a moment today when I contemplated NOT putting up a tree. OH MY, a sure sign of O.L.D. I shook it off I think. As far as that writing job. Ye gads, how do you do it? I would have to strangle someone. Maybe that's why I do my silly blog and you actually do "real" writing! Cheers!
V
I love the Lee building! What a great photo.
Nice neon!
HOORAY FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!!!
(Yes, I am a huge dork. Whuttuvit?)
Jess: It's a great building, isn't it?
Scenic: Thanks!
LiLu: Woo hoo! Christmas rocks!
I read that paragraph four times and I still don't get it. Is it because I only slept four hours last night?
Liz: Welcome to my world! At this stage, I think the Lion is far more articulate than that poorly transliterated paragraph! At least when he cries, you can narrow it down to three things: hunger, dirty diaper, or tired. When I cry over a paragraph like this, there's no fix but self-imposed baldness as I rip my hair out by the fistful!
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