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Previously on "Interesting take on the Guardian standards"

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  • unixman
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    Chap/chappess doesn't seem to be using paragraphs properly. But scores highly on sentence length, eg:

    "Amongst other new and surprising facts I’ve been told about myself on the Internet in the last couple of years by total strangers are that I write picture books about cats (I don’t; I write some books about golf and slightly more books about my life through the prism of what can be loosely termed cat ownership which also serve as a veiled way for me to write about place and rural eccentricity and tell stories about my dad and toads) and that I’m a typical middle class Guardian-writing Oxbridge graduate (I don’t even have any A-levels, let alone a degree; I spent most of my childhood living in a North Nottinghamshire mining village and my parents grew up on council estates in Liverpool and Nottingham)."

    A perfect example of Guardian writing style. Garrulous and self obsessed. I'm not meaning to have a go at the author though.

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  • jamesbrown
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    Ref the Beeb and its newspaper subscriptions.

    This bloke reckons a poodle could have edited his work better than the Guardian staffers. He's quit
    They had a point though, he's one wordy m*********er.

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  • EternalOptimist
    started a topic Interesting take on the Guardian standards

    Interesting take on the Guardian standards

    Ref the Beeb and its newspaper subscriptions.

    This bloke reckons a poodle could have edited his work better than the Guardian staffers. He's quit

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