Example: There is a poster in one of the forums that I participate in. This person claims to have a Master's degree in English and has written 3 novel. Her posts are always extremely long, quite often well over 100 lines that in itself is very annoying. Here is a mocked sample of her writing style:
one word...first fractured sentence...i'm have a degree in english but that i like bragging about but can't find the cap key on my computer but who needs caps anyway...i can't find any punctuation keys either...but i really really really like that little dot so i use that to separate all my long boring run on sentences because i can get more thoughts into a long boring run on sentence than i can with short to the point sentences because i have lots of experience in academia don't ya know...i just finished writing my third novellllllllll...can't find exclamation mark so just stretch out the last letter of word to show importance...but-then-i-found the dash to connect words together...way kool lol...all that money wasted on and english degree...
I thought perhaps that this was just a writing style she used on the forum thinking it was a bit on the cute side. At the end of her posts she has a link to her food blog so being curious I clicked on it. You are not going to believe this! Her blog is written in the same style! I find it very difficult that someone who claims to have an advanced English degree would actually think there is anything cute about this writing style. It is about the most annoying writing style I have ever come across in the blogosphere yet. If I were her I would be asking for a refund on my education costs because obviously she learned nothing and I do mean nothing about the English language!
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