• Do not use computerese, jargon, argot, newspeak, or British when expressing yourself in the American English Language.
• Subject and verb always has to agree.
• Do not use a foreign word when there is an adequate English quid pro quo.
• It behooves you to avoid archaic expressions. Avoid archaeic spellings too.
• Do not use hyperbole; not one in a million can do it effectively.
• Avoid cliches like the very plague.
• Mixed metaphors are a pain in the ass and should be thrown out the window.
• Placing a comma between subject and predicate, is not correct.
• Parenthetical words however must be enclosed in commas.
• Use your spell checker to avoid mispelling and to catch typograhpical errors.
• Don't be redundant. Don't repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
• Remember to never split an infinitive.
• The passive voice should not be used.
• Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed.
• Don't never use no double negatives.
• Poofread carefully to see if you have any words out.
• Check carefully for grammatical errers.
• Hopefully, you will use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
• Avoid colloquial stuff.
• Eschew- obfuscation.
• No sentence fragments.
• A preposition is never a proper word to end a sentence with.
• Never use a big word when a diminutive alternative would suffice.
• Don't indulge in sesquipedalian- lexicological constructions.
• And always be sure to finish what

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