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Story of thet Great American Mae West
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#HashtagGames
#ClassicMovieStarABook

Story of thet Great American Mae West
#ReadersDigest

#HashtagGames
#ClassicMovieStarABook

Story of thet Great American Mae West
#ReadersDigest

I've just booted The Reader's Digest from my news feed.

Why?

It plays stupid games with headlines.

#ban #newsfeed #ReadersDigest #headlines #PlayStupidGamesWinStupidPrizes

That time Reader’s Digest tried to go young. Typographic i, Nov 1974. #MikeSalisbury #RollingStone #RickGriffin #Lettering #Typography #ReadersDigest

(see https://flic.kr/p/2mZCne2)

That time Reader’s Digest tried to go young. Typographic i, Nov 1974. #MikeSalisbury #RollingStone #RickGriffin #Lettering #Typography #ReadersDigest

(see https://flic.kr/p/2mZCne2)

#WritingTip #EditingTip

#AdjectiveOrder: definitely a #GrammarRule I didn’t know I knew.

#ReadersDigest tells us:

Native English speakers naturally list adjectives in this order:

1. Opinion
2. Size
3. Age
4. Shape
5. Color
6. Origin
7. Material
8. Purpose

https://www.rd.com/article/adjective-order-rules/

So we can talk about a gorgeous small old concave blue Italian ceramic cooking pot, but not a concave old Italian blue gorgeous cooking ceramic small pot.

Who knew? Did you?

#WritingCommunity
#AmWriting

#WritingTip #EditingTip

#AdjectiveOrder: definitely a #GrammarRule I didn’t know I knew.

#ReadersDigest tells us:

Native English speakers naturally list adjectives in this order:

1. Opinion
2. Size
3. Age
4. Shape
5. Color
6. Origin
7. Material
8. Purpose

https://www.rd.com/article/adjective-order-rules/

So we can talk about a gorgeous small old concave blue Italian ceramic cooking pot, but not a concave old Italian blue gorgeous cooking ceramic small pot.

Who knew? Did you?

#WritingCommunity
#AmWriting

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