DING DING! What makes a GREAT Trip Report?
#121
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: London
Programs: BA
Posts: 2,368
This is a report of reading trip reports. I thoroughly enjoy this section of the website and check it multiple times per day. I am pleading with posters to challenge themselves to find adjectives besides "quite" to use in their writing. It seems this word is becoming one of the most over used words in the English language. Some of these reports are using it in ever other sentence.
I appreciate these reports, enjoy seeing the pictures, and have used much of the information contained in them to aid my own trips. Just, enough of the word "quite" please.
Don't bother replying, "I find this post quite distasteful." That is the obvious arm chair internet smart a$$ remark.
I appreciate these reports, enjoy seeing the pictures, and have used much of the information contained in them to aid my own trips. Just, enough of the word "quite" please.
Don't bother replying, "I find this post quite distasteful." That is the obvious arm chair internet smart a$$ remark.
#124
Suspended
Join Date: May 2009
Location: DFW
Programs: AAdvantage Platinum, Hilton HHonors Gold
Posts: 2,863
This is a report of reading trip reports. I thoroughly enjoy this section of the website and check it multiple times per day. I am pleading with posters to challenge themselves to find adjectives besides "quite" to use in their writing. It seems this word is becoming one of the most over used words in the English language. Some of these reports are using it in ever other sentence.
I appreciate these reports, enjoy seeing the pictures, and have used much of the information contained in them to aid my own trips. Just, enough of the word "quite" please.
Don't bother replying, "I find this post quite distasteful." That is the obvious arm chair internet smart a$$ remark.
I appreciate these reports, enjoy seeing the pictures, and have used much of the information contained in them to aid my own trips. Just, enough of the word "quite" please.
Don't bother replying, "I find this post quite distasteful." That is the obvious arm chair internet smart a$$ remark.
#125
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Home: Arlington, VA; Home airports: IAD/DCA/BWI
Programs: Active: AA, UA, DL
Posts: 4,093
#130
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Davis, California
Programs: MileagePlus Since Aug 2010, Hyatt Platinum
Posts: 131
I had to stop reading a well known points blogger most everyone knows because he kept using the word "however" over and over again!
It was just too distracting..
It was just too distracting..
#131
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: PHX & AGP
Programs: AA Lifetime PLT, Bonvoy Lifetime Titanium, Hilton Gold
Posts: 11,408
WHen did you rule this forum? Telling others how to write, very ballesy.... Learn to live with it..
This is a report of reading trip reports. I thoroughly enjoy this section of the website and check it multiple times per day. I am pleading with posters to challenge themselves to find adjectives besides "quite" to use in their writing. It seems this word is becoming one of the most over used words in the English language. Some of these reports are using it in ever other sentence.
I appreciate these reports, enjoy seeing the pictures, and have used much of the information contained in them to aid my own trips. Just, enough of the word "quite" please.
Don't bother replying, "I find this post quite distasteful." That is the obvious arm chair internet smart a$$ remark.
I appreciate these reports, enjoy seeing the pictures, and have used much of the information contained in them to aid my own trips. Just, enough of the word "quite" please.
Don't bother replying, "I find this post quite distasteful." That is the obvious arm chair internet smart a$$ remark.
#133
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: MO
Programs: AA EXPLT
Posts: 430
The other rule I would like to enact is that no trip report can be started unless you are posting details of at least one portion of your trip. So many threads are started these days that are, "I'm thinking of taking such and such trip in 2014 and here is my place holder..."
And then you don't get any updates for days and days and a millennium. These threads then blow up into 3-4 page odysseys of people replying "can't wait," or "looking forward to," before the OP ever posts a single true detail of their trip.
Quite annoying
#134
Join Date: Jun 2011
Programs: HHonors Diamond
Posts: 98
This is a report of reading trip reports. I thoroughly enjoy this section of the website and check it multiple times per day. I am pleading with posters to challenge themselves to find adjectives besides "quite" to use in their writing. It seems this word is becoming one of the most over used words in the English language. Some of these reports are using it in ever other sentence.
I appreciate these reports, enjoy seeing the pictures, and have used much of the information contained in them to aid my own trips. Just, enough of the word "quite" please.
Don't bother replying, "I find this post quite distasteful." That is the obvious arm chair internet smart a$$ remark.
I appreciate these reports, enjoy seeing the pictures, and have used much of the information contained in them to aid my own trips. Just, enough of the word "quite" please.
Don't bother replying, "I find this post quite distasteful." That is the obvious arm chair internet smart a$$ remark.