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| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 08/14/2008 : 09:53:35
Apologies for putting this in a separate thread (I generally hate threads about one tiny point when there are existing broader threads), but as there are two quite different issues here it's just clearer.
I submitted "Bear repeating" for Gentle Ben 2.
Issue 1: The MERP changed it to "Bear's repeating". This is so annoying! Why did they do it? To bear repeating does not have to be applied to the third person singular, so the pun worked fine as it was. Benj, please could you correct it if it is still there when you read this?
Issue 2: I then saw RockGolf's older "Bears repeating" for Brother Bear 2. This makes my review pretty redundant. (I don't go along with those people who think there is value in just using the same pun again and again.) The only thing stopping me deleting it is RockGolf's newer review for Gentle Ben 2: he thought of the idea first, but I thought of it first for that film. I think I'll still delete mine but I guess I just want convincing! (I'm not asking for RockGolf's permission to keep it, since my view on cross-film duplicates isn't going to change.) |
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| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 09/27/2008 : 12:56:28
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Originally posted by Salopian
Incidentally, I tried a variant, "2 much 2 bear" (not because I thought it was particularly good, but because I might as well if I was going to get rid of my other one). The MERP rejected that as too generic, saying that it could apply to Care Bear films! It's actually less generic than our other ones, since it can only apply to the first sequel.
That review has now been rejected with 'Don't understand'. It's not really clear to me how that is possible, in particular as it was obviously understood previously in order to be deemed too generic. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 08/21/2008 : 03:32:12
Talking of anger at amendments... but the anger here is actually ill-founded for a number of reasons. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 08/21/2008 : 03:25:32
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Originally posted by benj clews
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Originally posted by Salopian
With all due respect, Josh, I have never had any good reason to suspect that any MERP's spelling or grammar is better than mine overall. And more to the point, neither have they.
It's not a question of being better overall, it's a question of whether any of us are infallible. Obviously, none of us are (even your good self- as an email exchange between us a while back showed) and therefore I consider a different set of eyes over something as a good thing.
If I make an actual error, they are welcome to correct it -- so long as they remember that dictionaries know better than their own heads. As I mentioned in the e-mail, and have also often said here, I frequently make typos -- the point is that I re-read reviews but not normally messages. Anyway, the case here was one of taste, not correctness. |
| Conan The Westy |
Posted - 08/20/2008 : 23:18:18
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Originally posted by thefoxboy
I wish I was perfect.
People who think they are perfect get up the collective noses of those of us who are. |
| Whippersnapper. |
Posted - 08/20/2008 : 12:06:29
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
And I was referring to was a general tendency towards anger rather than specifically linked to this topic.
As was I.
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| benj clews |
Posted - 08/20/2008 : 12:02:52
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Originally posted by Ali
Speak for yourself, bitch. I am infalible.
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| Ali |
Posted - 08/20/2008 : 11:55:18
Speak for yourself, bitch. I am infalible.
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| benj clews |
Posted - 08/20/2008 : 11:36:09
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Originally posted by Salopian
With all due respect, Josh, I have never had any good reason to suspect that any MERP's spelling or grammar is better than mine overall. And more to the point, neither have they.
It's not a question of being better overall, it's a question of whether any of us are infallible. Obviously, none of us are (even your good self- as an email exchange between us a while back showed) and therefore I consider a different set of eyes over something as a good thing. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 08/20/2008 : 02:25:32
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Originally posted by bife
And yes Sal, you should delete.
I agree, so I already have.  Well, close enough. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 08/20/2008 : 02:23:21
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Originally posted by benj clews
In it's original form it just sounds wrong if you think of it in the same manner as RockGolf's entry- like The Hulk am writ it or something.
I really don't think that's true for the reasons I have already outlined -- the modified version only works for the third person singular positive statement form, and then only phonetically. The phrase to bear repeating is in fact far more likely to occur in the negative or question form ("It doesn't bear repeating"; "His words don't bear repeating"; "Does it bear repeating?") -- neither of those nor the plural nor the infinitive has the -s inflection.
It would be different if I were trying to imply that "Bears repeating" applies to the film rather than just using any old pun, but that would be insane. Indeed, an additional problem with the modified review was the potential impression that I thought that. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 08/20/2008 : 02:17:47
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Originally posted by R o � k G 0 1 f
the irony is I submitted "Bear's repeating" for Gentle Ben 2, too! But it was rejected as too generic!
Ah, that makes me feel better. Did you delete it afterwards (always a mistake) then, since mine could exist in that form? Anyway, you can change yours now, or ask Benj to do so here.
Incidentally, I tried a variant, "2 much 2 bear" (not because I thought it was particularly good, but because I might as well if I was going to get rid of my other one). The MERP rejected that as too generic, saying that it could apply to Care Bear films! It's actually less generic than our other ones, since it can only apply to the first sequel.
Benj, the new MERP still does not seem to understand that under the new rules applying to two or three films does not invalidate a review. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 08/20/2008 : 02:11:42
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Originally posted by thefoxboy
I wish I was perfect.
I wish you were too. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 08/20/2008 : 02:11:20
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Originally posted by Josh_the_cat
Sal if you don't want the review you could always smithee it.
I would never Smithee anything as that is a terrible thing to do, but I got rid of it a few days ago. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 08/20/2008 : 02:10:26
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Originally posted by Josh_the_cat
I have had spellings and grammar corrected over the years and I am generally quite glad; I hope, if a MERP saw that something was wrong they would correct it hence gaining me a new approve review.
Cheers MERPs for assisting us, Salopian some people try to help and I choose not to complain about that.
With all due respect, Josh, I have never had any good reason to suspect that any MERP's spelling or grammar is better than mine overall. And more to the point, neither have they. |
| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 08/20/2008 : 02:08:29
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
And I was referring to was a general tendency towards anger rather than specifically linked to this topic.
As was I. |
