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Post by chonies on Aug 24, 2017 10:11:40 GMT -4
I'm intrigued by the reference to horse DNA. If it's not self-published, there's no excuse for that many basic grammar mistakes. I know the publishing industries have cut back on editors, particularly copy editors, but I'm reminded on a near-daily basis why copy editors are doing God's work. The alpha male dude was a secret billionaire who went undercover as a groom on a Kentucky horse farm as part of a complicated bet and with a mission to obtain DNA (in this case, from the mane) from a champion stallion who was allegedly descended from an illegal studding* There was far too much information about show jumping for a casual such as myself. It was also an obvious metaphor because the two lovers were from feuding families whose grandmothers were intense rivals. Maybe I read this board too much but I guess I would have liked more thinly veiled gossip about the scene itself, and less info about horse hamstrings or jumps. *spoiler: DUH, of course it was.
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Post by batmom on Aug 24, 2017 11:32:00 GMT -4
The Adam Ruins Everything podcast recently had a language expert on who argued that using Literally figuratively was ok now because so many people do it and we all know what they mean. Ugh. Way to ruin an otherwise fascinating podcast.
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Post by laurenj on Aug 24, 2017 11:40:25 GMT -4
I'm intrigued by the reference to horse DNA. If it's not self-published, there's no excuse for that many basic grammar mistakes. I know the publishing industries have cut back on editors, particularly copy editors, but I'm reminded on a near-daily basis why copy editors are doing God's work. There was far too much information about show jumping for a casual such as myself. It was also an obvious metaphor because the two lovers were from feuding families whose grandmothers were intense rivals. Maybe I read this board too much but I guess I would have liked more thinly gossip about the scene itself, and less info about horse hamstrings or jumps.Lol. I just read a book with the premise of an old murder and a complicated cop father/estranged daughter relationship, but there was so much detail about cleaning and what sounded like super OCD habits that I almost couldn't slog my way to the end to find out who the murderer was. The daughter owned a cleaning business and was extremely fastidious in every way, which I swear I understood after the first 20 or so references to her spotless but sterile apartment and the deep cleaning she liked to do and her standards for her employees and oh my God, just get back to the murder already!!! This book also had multiple errors that I found unforgivable, mostly notably the transposing of character's names so that a woman who died back in 1981 was now deep cleaning apartments in 2011. Not only would an editor have [hopefully] fixed that, perhaps they could have also helped pare down the cleaning nonsense to only the most necessary details. Yeah, that's not a great rule. So many people don't know the differences between your/you're, to/too/two, they're/their but that doesn't mean we should just chuck the rules about them.
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Post by chonies on Aug 24, 2017 11:49:35 GMT -4
The Adam Ruins Everything podcast recently had a language expert on who argued that using Literally figuratively was ok now because so many people do it and we all know what they mean. Ugh. Way to ruin an otherwise fascinating podcast. In the strictest sense, sure, I do understand that people mean literally to mean figuratively, but that doesn't mean I will use it myself nor will I accept it in student writing, so HA...HA </Channing Tatum> I don't think it's ok.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2017 11:58:38 GMT -4
WHAT? :::Insert rant that includes the phrase "If everyone jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge..." here.:::
This is literally stupid.
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Post by mrspickles on Aug 24, 2017 12:33:07 GMT -4
That annoys me more than when they decided that 'fourty' was an acceptable spelling because so many people spell it wrong.
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Post by laurenj on Aug 24, 2017 14:54:32 GMT -4
That annoys me more than when they decided that 'fourty' was an acceptable spelling because so many people spell it wrong. I missed this one. I played a 40th anniversary tournament recently and was really annoyed when the commemorative t-shirt said "Fourtieth Anniversary" on it.
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Post by mrspickles on Aug 24, 2017 15:52:21 GMT -4
That would drive me crazy too!
I still remember my disgust when I sat through an orientation seminar for the College of Business during which one of the administrators dicussed what to do with any transcripts anyone had 'broughten' from another school, or any information regarding any of the classes they had 'tooken' at another school, they should bring it to her office for evaluation.
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Post by chiquita on Aug 24, 2017 16:14:48 GMT -4
That annoys me more than when they decided that 'fourty' was an acceptable spelling because so many people spell it wrong. Who decided this and when?! I hadn't heard that, and it horrifies me. The thing about accepting the incorrect use of the word literally is also quite upsetting. There are rules, people. Follow them! (I know I'm preaching to the choir in this thread.) Broughten and tooken may well have driven me to throw something at the speaker if I were being forced to hear that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2017 16:23:52 GMT -4
Yeah, this is some bullshit. To whom do we bring our grievances??
I've heard broughten many times, mostly from children who are newer to language, but tooken is a new one by me ... How?
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