It actually takes real talent to write this badly on purpose. Bulwer Lytton
did it naturally - the BW Awards home site has the entire first chapter of
his 'best' book - truly terrifying prose.
As a high school teacher, I also get some beauts, of course -
"We shouldn't test cosmetics on animals - after all, rabbits are people too!"
"The UN should intervene in Kosovo to avoid unnecessary macaques"
(spellchecker failure - he meant massacres but I still think of the Balkans
overrun with small apes).
Then there was the one who claimed that the career of Berenice Abbott
lasted from the 1870's to the 1980's - quite remarkable!
AndrewF
>This is just way too funny! The "Running of the Pomeranians in
>Liechtenstein"? The lady had to have been on some really bad stuff. This
>makes me appreciate my senior high composition students, and I've always
>respected them. They often wrote real clunkers. An example: "In this new,
>futuristic society, women had the primary responsibility for having babies."
>But their errors were honest; they didn't have the vocabulary or grasp of
>syntax to write *this* badly. And most of them had better taste.
>Thanks for improving my morning, Garth.
>JP
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