On 10/24/05, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've just put the following text on my userpage.
If you think you're
hard enough, you take the challenge and then put this on your own
userpage.
===The "Fix Crappy Prose" Challenge===
I'd like everyone reading this who thinks they're a pretty good writer
to middle-click
Not everyone has a three-button mouse.
<sup>'''*'''</sup>
"Random page" twenty times and
rewrite any crappy prose you find without sacrificing any factual
content. Do this at least once a week.
Detail and accuracy beat elegant prose, if you're forced to make the
choice. But that doesn't make crappy prose a good idea.
<small>'''*''' You do use [[Mozilla Firefox|Firefox]],
right?</small>
- d.
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