L'enfer, c'est la grammaire. (Et ceux qui l'emploient mal.)

Jul 24, 2005 10:47

For the record, I hate run-on sentences, almost as much as I hate imperial measures and the cold. Combined ( Read more... )

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spikespeigel July 24 2005, 10:05:34 UTC
Hey, I warned you that it might be rough. I wrote, I finished, I dumped it off to you. Because, seriously, I really didn't want to deal with it anymore. That thing was a beast. A beast I tells ya!

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briasoleil July 24 2005, 10:13:39 UTC
You're adorable. Or is that adorkable? Or maybe just a dork?

It's fine. I'm just whinging. Cause I do nothing else.

And now, I'm going back to it. Cause the run-on sentences aren't going to detangle themselves.

Other than the run-ons, it's absolutely fabulous. And I'm frequently laughing and nodding and writing "so in character." So, all is not lost. Or bad. Quite the opposite, actually. Except for those blasted run-on sentences.

Fear not, though. I haven't yet felt the urge to write "dude, you're not Proust; quit with the lengthy sentences."

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velocityofsound July 24 2005, 12:17:04 UTC
11C? Thats like, what -40F? Or 105F?

:P

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briasoleil July 24 2005, 12:30:38 UTC
You are hilarious.

And I don't know what 11C other than it's 11C. I can't deal with imperial measures, particularly for temps. And the only other way to know involves math and we all know that math is evil. Eeeeeeeevvvvvvvviiiiiiiiiiillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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spikespeigel July 24 2005, 12:52:36 UTC
51.8 F. Geez, it isn't that hard. And math isn't evil. Because knowledge is power! And math is knowledge. So there.

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briasoleil July 24 2005, 13:12:57 UTC
So says the engineer. Math makes my head ache. Unless it's algebra, cause that's fun. (It involves the alphabet, making it entirely doable.)

Also, imperial measures are so beyond passé. Why would anybody still need to know them? Unless you're American. In which case, I'd like to introduce you to something called progress. Also, the 21st century. :p

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blue71canoe July 26 2005, 00:01:35 UTC
Hmm. I'm not sure if run-on sentences bother me more or having someone erroneously suggest that I've written a run-on sentence when really all I've done is write a tremendously long and incredibly complex sentence. Ya know?

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briasoleil July 26 2005, 15:53:06 UTC
There's a difference between a run-on sentnece and a complex sentence.

And alas, while Proustianesque sentences are totally fine in academia, they're less fine elsewhere.

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