Showing posts with label bad relationship advice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bad relationship advice. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Relationships for Illiterate Dummies

Is there anything more annoying than a dummy pretending to be sharing hard-won experience? You'd think not, but there actually is: a dummy pretending to share hard-won knowledge simply by rewording someone else's work. And the more ridiculous the wording, the more annoying. Are you with us? Well, maybe an example will help. Let's look at the work of WritEdge contributor putyliz, who held forth on the topic of "Tips to Spark your Marriage Alive."¹ In a writing style that one might most charitably describe as "fractured," young Liz advised her devoted readers (all two of them, we suspect),