History Literature / StrikingAndPicturesqueDelineations

Or to give it its full name, '''''Striking and Picturesque Delineations of the Grand, Beautiful, Wonderful and Interesting Scenery Around Loch-Earn''''' ([[LampshadeHanging feel free to copy-paste]]), but the site wouldn't have it.

This one is a short story by Angus [=McDiarmid=], dubbed the "world's worst author" in retrospect. You may think he has stiff competition. But when you read ''Striking and Picturesque Delineations of the Grand, Beautiful, Wonderful and Interesting Scenery Around Loch-Earn'', one starts to realise that this stands head and shoulders above the rest.

The book itself is perfectly fine, describing the striking and picturesque scenery around the southern Scottish Highlands, yet the book is riddled with ridiculous grammar errors, so much so that writers have speculated as to whether he was real. The common consensus was that [=McDiarmid=]'s first language was Gaelic and that he translated it into English with a dictionary, choosing the most impressive word that came out regardless of whether it worked or not.

!!The demonstrative frequently utilised markers called 'tropes' thus continues:

* DamnedByFaintPraise: "S.A." praised the book's description of natural beauty, passing over his terrible writing skills.
* MountainMan: The in-universe justification for the awful syntax, that due to being from the Highlands the author's words "[[IHaveToGoIronMyDog overleap the mounds and impediments of grammar]]".
* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Exaggerated here.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Trope Codifier.
* TranslationTrainWreck: Trope Codifier, surely. The author likely didn't speak English well at all.

The book itself is perfectly fine, describing the striking and picturesque scenery around the southern Scottish Highlands, yet the book is riddled with ridiculous grammar errors, so much so that writers have speculated as to whether he was real. The common consensus was that [=McDiarmid=]'s first language was Gaelic and translated it into English with a dictionary, choosing the most impressive word that came out regardless of whether it worked or not.

* SoBadItsGood: Many critics' bemused response when reading this.
* TranslationTrainWreck: Trope Codifier, surely. The author likely didn't speak English well at all.

This one is a short story by Angus McDiarmid, dubbed the "world's worst author" in retrospect. You may think he has stiff competition. But when you read ''Striking and Picturesque Delineations of the Grand, Beautiful, Wonderful and Interesting Scenery Around Loch-Earn'', one starts to realise that this stands head and shoulders above the rest.

The book itself is perfectly fine, describing the striking and picturesque scenery around the southern Scottish Highlands, yet the book is riddled with ridiculous grammar errors, so much so that writers have speculated as to whether he was real. The common consensus was that McDiarmid's first language was Gaelic and translated it into English with a dictionary, choosing the most impressive word that came out regardless of whether it worked or not.

* MountainMan: The in-universe justification for the awful syntax, that due to being from the Highlands the author's words "[[BlatantLies overleap the mounds and impediments of grammar]]".