Comments on: Editorial crutches – things that you write that you don’t need to write

By: Pick of the Peasants « Torque Control

Pick of the Peasants « Torque Control — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:54:05 +0000

[...] In keeping with the spirit of the day, I’m going to put up a review I wrote for NYRSF. For bonus marks, see if you can spot my tics. [...]

By: Penny

Penny — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 16:51:09 +0000

Guilty of many a “however” although I try to strip them out along with all the weaselly “perhaps may indicate” and other such comments where I try to hint that the author may have done something, without having the courage to say so outright.

Mind you, a lot of my spoken sentences suffer from “basically”, whereas “um” and “er” are, er, just punctuation.

By: aaron udy

aaron udy — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 12:55:00 +0000

I don’t see a problem with those words. ‘Of course’ is a little presumptuous though

‘Meanwhile’, your blog looks awesome on my new mobile. ‘If in fact’ gloating is rather tacky ‘it follows’ that I should cease.

By: Paul Raven

Paul Raven — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:52:59 +0000

Of course, Jonathan.

By: Jonathan M

Jonathan M — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 23:16:41 +0000

“However” and “Indeed” for me.

I just think in quite a structured manner. So I have Claim A opposed to Claim B and example C illustrating it. Naturally this because. A! However, B. Indeed, C.