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| Larry |
Posted - 08/26/2013 : 20:40:39
Se�n Says: Here we go again. 
--> Put any five reviews you like in your F.Y.C. list.
--> Do not use reviews from the previous round - you must change them every round.
--> Post here to declare that you've done it. Sooner is better than later.
--> Provide a spoiler warning in your post when appropriate.
--> You must read the F.Y.C.s of all participants.
--> The next round starts on Monday or Thursday at noon FWFR time, whichever comes next.
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| 15 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 08/29/2013 : 12:37:39
vv
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| randall |
Posted - 08/29/2013 : 11:45:30
No, you aren't the only one. I would guess that several other fwiffers have never added periods to their submissions; as you say, the old site did it for them. Unlike you, I regret the change.
I come from advertising, where sentence fragments are frequently used to simulate speech. Like this. I use them in my own writing, as did many authors whose books I have edited. To my "ear," the "full stop" indicates a strong declaration, and most reviews without it, particularly those attempting to be "cheeky," "sound" tentative; unfinished. That's just me. Others are free to disagree. But as I said, I am just as free to let this issue influence my decision to vote.
The purpose of punctuation, in fact all orthography, is to enhance comprehension. So yes, an interrogative demands a question mark to preserve its meaning. The full-stop issue, however, is a question of taste, no matter what it says in the style book. |
| Salopian |
Posted - 08/29/2013 : 05:45:39
quote:
Originally posted by randall
N.B. for vote trawlers: I rarely vote for reviews without full stops. [Yanks: "periods."] Sometimes they work without [thus earning my vote], but usually they don't. Your decision to omit the final stop is of course yours alone. My decision to pass by that review at voting time is my own as well.
Don't know if my reviews prompted you to note this, but I've only ever (occasional lapses aside) added full stops to the end of sentences, full verb phrases (their being the head of the sentence) and reviews which have earlier stops to divide components. The old site unfortunately used to add them automatically, but one benefit of the new site (or rather the era of the new site, since I still use the old one) is that that has stopped. Not sure why you'd want non-sentences to have stops any more than you'd presumably want non-questions to have question marks, but I can empathise with withholding votes from actually incorrect punctuation: I don't vote for reviews with apostrophes in bizarre places, for example. |
| Sean |
Posted - 08/29/2013 : 03:32:08
VV. And thanks, folks.  I'll be back next round with the other five (that's two years' output). I don't 'force' reviews like I did in the old days, but when one pops into my mind I submit it. That's one review every few months. 
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| demonic |
Posted - 08/29/2013 : 03:07:37
VV. Nearly managed 10 entrants... Not too shabby. And great to see the founder of the game back too. Write more reviews Sean. Or show us some old ones. |
| Larry |
Posted - 08/29/2013 : 02:21:22
Viewted. |
| randall |
Posted - 08/28/2013 : 23:35:03
V&V. Nice ones, Sean!
N.B. for vote trawlers: I rarely vote for reviews without full stops. [Yanks: "periods."] Sometimes they work without [thus earning my vote], but usually they don't. Your decision to omit the final stop is of course yours alone. My decision to pass by that review at voting time is my own as well. |
| Salopian |
Posted - 08/28/2013 : 21:47:14
Salvation.
Spoiler for Sightseers (here and in the review): a caravanning holiday turns into a killing spree.
The Lone Ranger opposes weapons, at least at until (spoiler here and in the review) he has to fight a whole regiment. |
| Airbolt |
Posted - 08/28/2013 : 19:18:15
vv |
| lemmycaution |
Posted - 08/27/2013 : 13:57:42
Lemmy in for #952.
Welcome Founder. |
| Airbolt |
Posted - 08/27/2013 : 11:32:24
A little french |
| Sean |
Posted - 08/27/2013 : 05:06:15
quote:
Originally posted by Salopian
I'll join in there if you'll join in here.
quote:
Originally posted by Sean
I'm not in this round, I'm here to advertise the....
Final Round of FWPT
which is sadly being retired after 8+ years due to lack of interest.
Enter here.
Read about it here.
Go on, enter. You know you want to. A special topic has been chosen for this swan song. 
Oops, I never checked back in that thread (the last FYCTH round) or I'd have entered then. It's not too late to enter FWPT, there've been no voters yet.
I have 10 reviews (my total output from the last four years) that haven't been FYCTH'd, so here are five of them.
http://www.fwfr.com/user/?UID=3104
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| demonic |
Posted - 08/27/2013 : 03:25:27
Cartoons, puppets and pixels.
NB:
The enemy of "Team America" is Korean dictator Kim Jong Il.
"Rainy Day Circus" is the second Panda! Go Panda! animation.
Gru plots to steal the moon in "Despicable Me".
A girl raises signal flags in memorial to her dead father, which catches the eye of a fellow student in "From Up on Poppy Hill".
Anime "Summer Wars" uses themes from "The Wizard of Oz" - including the white rabbit, the cheshire cat in an online virtual reality also called OZ. |
| randall |
Posted - 08/26/2013 : 22:40:28
Here's randall's #952 list. |
| Larry |
Posted - 08/26/2013 : 20:48:42
C if you like these. |
