Good evening everyone!
For this post, I kind of want to put my brain onto the table for just a second, and talk about some of writing styles that took me awhile to understand. The reason why I am doing this is to see if I am the only one that is one this boat. I will list 5 styles of writing that I am a hard time understanding. So with that being said, let us begin!
If you don’t know what abbreviation means,then I will give you a small description. Abbreviation:shorting a word. That is my definition of the word anyways. I think it is save to say that in one point in time, we were so lazy to write a word that we just decided to shorted it down so that way it saves us some time. An example of this, is with the word “with.” Personally I don’t do this, but at one point of time, a friend of mine send me a text using “w/” instead of “with.” When I first saw that for the first time, I was left so confused on what in the world that was. In fairness, I was in 8th grade when that happened.
One style that I had troubles with grade school, and sometimes to this date, was either or not to capitalize or lowercase words in titles. In school, I was kind of a booger, and I never took writing seriously. But when I did took it seriously, I did not know if I should capitalize or lowercase all the words in a title, for example, a essay title. If the memory serves me right, I believe the times you capitalize words in titles, is the first and last word in the title, verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and I think that is all. (Hopefully the title on this post is good, I am not a master in writing apparently, fingers crossed.)
As a kid, serial commas were something that I hardly ever use. Serial Commas, if you didn’t know already, are used to separated wording in a sentence, and they can be lifesavers. For example, the sentence, “Let’s eat kids!” sounds flat out wrong right. But if you had a comma, “Let’s eat, kids!” it sounds a lot better! From K-8, commas were the least of my worries, as long as my friends understood what I was saying to them.
Whom, the word that I found to be so fancy when I used it in writing. Whom is another way of saying “who” and when I found that out, I thought to myself, “man, now I can sound like I am somewhat smart when I write something.” In all seriousness, the only time I have seen this word other than in school, are in books. Other than that, no one has texted me using that word instead of “who.” I never understood why people just don’t use “who.” In my head, when I see someone use it, I say to myself, “I think they are trying to be fancy,” cause I know the few times I have used that word, I felt so fancy that I wanted to pour myself a glass of wine cause I was so proud of myself.
Lastly, the different types of spelling variations there is in certain words. What I mean by that, is for example, “That is their dog.” There are a lot of words out there that have different variations, and with those different variations, come different meanings. In middle school, I would always use the word “there” instead of “their”, and completely forgot about “they’re.” (I know, I was not the brightest in middle school, cut me some slack. I am in college now I am improving).
Well there you go! My list of the five writing styles that took me awhile to understand! I hope some of the things I said are relatable in some ways.
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