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]]> Humor Me: When to Use (and Avoid) Humor in Your Writing https://old.wordsbyapro.com/humor-me-when-to-use-and-avoid-humor-in-your-writing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=humor-me-when-to-use-and-avoid-humor-in-your-writing Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:35:23 +0000 https://old.wordsbyapro.com/?p=1609 It’s fairly safe to say that no one knows how to write humor. The great modern humor essayists – Dave Barry, P. J. O’Rourke, and the late Lewis Grizzard and Erma Bombeck, among many others –do it naturally, instinctively knowing just what turn of phrase and clever irony readers will find funny, but they probably […]

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