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Demisemicenturian 
"Four ever European"
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 Posted - 01/12/2009 : 02:51:39
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Originally posted by rabid kazook
Salopian's underrated review of the same Wally/Waldo theme here.
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BiggerBoat 
"Pass me the harpoon"
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Posted - 01/12/2009 : 12:54:45
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Originally posted by Salopian
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There is only one thing I hate about this site, and I'm sure you'll agree that that is far from secretly.
I really have to say that I regard the use of the adverb "secretly" in the above sentence to be both grammatically inelegant and entirely unnecessary.
Simply the use of the adjective "secret" would have been more accurate and less grating.
You are very welcome to highlight grammatical errors of mine, but the above is not one. I considered both entirely valid forms and favoured the subtly different meaning in the one I chose.
Write out 'I made a grammatical mistake and I admit it' fifty times and hand it in to me by lunchtime, boy.
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 01/13/2009 : 01:33:03
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
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Originally posted by Salopian
There is only one thing I hate about this site, and I'm sure you'll agree that that is far from secretly.
I really have to say that I regard the use of the adverb "secretly" in the above sentence to be both grammatically inelegant and entirely unnecessary.
Simply the use of the adjective "secret" would have been more accurate and less grating.
You are very welcome to highlight grammatical errors of mine, but the above is not one. I considered both entirely valid forms and favoured the subtly different meaning in the one I chose.
I didn't say it was an "error" did I? I said it was inelegant and unnecessary.
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Demisemicenturian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 01/15/2009 : 09:50:23
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by Whippersnapper
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Originally posted by Salopian
There is only one thing I hate about this site, and I'm sure you'll agree that that is far from secretly.
I really have to say that I regard the use of the adverb "secretly" in the above sentence to be both grammatically inelegant and entirely unnecessary.
Simply the use of the adjective "secret" would have been more accurate and less grating.
You are very welcome to highlight grammatical errors of mine, but the above is not one. I considered both entirely valid forms and favoured the subtly different meaning in the one I chose.
I didn't say it was an "error" did I? I said it was inelegant and unnecessary.
If you want to get pedantic like that, I also did not say that you said it was an error. I have no interest in receiving lessons in elegance of Fourum posting from you. I don't agree that it was grammatically inelegant: anything can be subjectively considered stylistically inelegant, but that's not the same thing at all. Unnecessary implies its having been extraneous rather than the alternative choice that it was.
Now, if you have any constructive suggestions for the improvement of my reviews, that is a different matter, since the whole point of four-word film reviews is that they are an exercise in selecting words as well as possible. |
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For Your Consideration Treasure Hunt 465
