Moronic Sentences...
... like this make me want to weep, laugh and rant at the same time.
Sample this from a Guardian blog post, about Asian cinema taking over the world - "China aims to make cinema as important as its internet and telecoms industries; box-office receipts there increased by 27 per cent in 2007 alone."
What does the heck does this sentence mean? How does China "decide" to make cinema important? Is there a central committee there making these decisions (heh, there maybe, though)? It's cinema for crying out loud! You can't just "aim" to increase the importance of cinema - it's not like building roads! You make films because there are subjects to explore and people want to watch them. If Chinese cinematographers make movies people like, then Chinese cinemas importance will increase; not because the Central Chinese Movie Command has decreed that cinema will "take the place of toys on the list of exports from China."
Sample this from a Guardian blog post, about Asian cinema taking over the world - "China aims to make cinema as important as its internet and telecoms industries; box-office receipts there increased by 27 per cent in 2007 alone."
What does the heck does this sentence mean? How does China "decide" to make cinema important? Is there a central committee there making these decisions (heh, there maybe, though)? It's cinema for crying out loud! You can't just "aim" to increase the importance of cinema - it's not like building roads! You make films because there are subjects to explore and people want to watch them. If Chinese cinematographers make movies people like, then Chinese cinemas importance will increase; not because the Central Chinese Movie Command has decreed that cinema will "take the place of toys on the list of exports from China."