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Data Graham posted:FWIW it did put me in mind of one of my favorite pieces of Tolkien trivia It makes me really mad to think that people are actually trying to teach kids a rule like this. It's an antiquated, dumb way to teach (see? that sounds fine despite breaking the rule) and focusing on pedantic bullshit like that will actively hurt kids ability as writers.
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Jan 31, 2020 23:14
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All stylish writing is useless, its no different from teaching what alliteration is.
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bike tory posted:It makes me really mad to think that people are actually trying to teach kids a rule like this. It's an antiquated, dumb way to teach (see? that sounds fine despite breaking the rule) and focusing on pedantic bullshit like that will actively hurt kids ability as writers. If memory serves that's one of those "hey let's be a Romance language now" things. Latin did have some funky rules on that sort of thing which actually made sense in its language structure. English, of course, is a Germanic language that gives no shits about such rules at its core but a batch of scholars decided that English should have a lot of stupid rules like that like all the cool kid Romance languages do. It's stupid.
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Jan 31, 2020 23:41
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Samuringa posted:All stylish writing is useless, its no different from teaching what alliteration is. Alliteration sounds nice because our brains are constantly scrambling to find patterns like the sorting junkies they are. It's the same reason we love stress patterns in language.
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oldpainless posted:A.............bad teacher? Like Cameron Diaz in that movie where she played a bad teacher. It was called “bad teacher” That sounds familiar, but are you sure it wasn't "The Teacher Who Was Not Good at Her Job"?
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Aw jeez and they loved the way I analogized the mandalorian with gravity's rainbow the other day
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Feb 1, 2020 00:43
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Caufman posted:That sounds familiar, but are you sure it wasn't "The Teacher Who Was Not Good at Her Job"? I appreciate your help but I meticulously fact check every post I make so as to avoid any errors but thank you anyway Caofman
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Feb 1, 2020 00:48
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oldpainless posted:I appreciate your help but I meticulously fact check every post I make so as to avoid any errors but thank you anyway Caofman More like oldaidless
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Well I think you should still watch The Teacher Who Was Not Good at Her Job. And I don't think you appreciate my help at all, oldsincereless.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:If memory serves that's one of those "hey let's be a Romance language now" things. Latin did have some funky rules on that sort of thing which actually made sense in its language structure. English, of course, is a Germanic language that gives no shits about such rules at its core but a batch of scholars decided that English should have a lot of stupid rules like that like all the cool kid Romance languages do. Sounds like we got ourselves an infinitive splitter over here, get ‘im boys
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Data Graham posted:Sounds like we got ourselves an infinitive splitter over here, get ‘im boys I'm going to kick the poo poo out of him viciously Edit: sorry I'm trying to delete it please sto
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I was just at my local recruiting office today and he said I was definitely fit enough to be SOCOM. But, geez, is this at all accurate?
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Feb 1, 2020 02:01
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Worked at a pizza place and it was still the same answer obviously
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Sjs00 posted:Worked at a pizza place and it was still the same answer obviously Me too and basically yeah. It was worth it
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bike tory posted:It makes me really mad to think that people are actually trying to teach kids a rule like this. It's an antiquated, dumb way to teach (see? that sounds fine despite breaking the rule) and focusing on pedantic bullshit like that will actively hurt kids ability as writers. Tolkien's mom being an rear end in a top hat about this was loving stupid, but this rule isn't a prescriptive one like the various idiot things whatever shitheaded English teacher insisted on*... it's how native speakers just do it automatically. I've never heard it taught, and I'm into this noise. Your construction didn't even break the rule. For whatever reason, those two seem mutable. *I'm not sassing you... I just loving hate the jerkwad English teachers who are either the source of utter bullshit or who insist on correct things with a snooty mien.
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Wasn't Tolkien, like lots of middle-class colonials' kids, raised in England by aunts or something?
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Data Graham posted:FWIW it did put me in mind of one of my favorite pieces of Tolkien trivia Tolkien's mom's argument never held water for me because you can have a Great Dragon be a breed of dragon the same way there are Great Danes. Said Great Dragon could be green versus another color that Great Dragons come in. That said yes there are rules for adjectives but she was incorrect.
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Feb 1, 2020 02:38
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Data Graham posted:Sounds like we got ourselves an infinitive splitter over here, get ‘im boys That poo poo is something up with which I will not put.
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gleebster posted:Wasn't Tolkien, like lots of middle-class colonials' kids, raised in England by aunts or something? No, he and his brother were home schooled by his mother for a good chunk of his early life because the family was so poor after his father died when Tolkien was a toddler.
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Blendy posted:Tolkien's mom's argument never held water for me because you can have a Great Dragon be a breed of dragon the same way there are Great Danes. Said Great Dragon could be green versus another color that Great Dragons come in. That said yes there are rules for adjectives but she was incorrect. nope, still holds. if you're talking about a 'Great Dragon' or 'Great Dane', 'Great' is part of the noun, not an adjective, and is therefore an exception to the rule. A large dog, green in colour is a 'green Great Dane' A Danish person, large in stature, green in colour' is a 'great green Dane'
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:No, he and his brother were home schooled by his mother for a good chunk of his early life because the family was so poor after his father died when Tolkien was a toddler. Yeah, that's it. I'm mixing him up with Saki and Wodehouse.
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What smoothbrain still refers to "hippies" in 2020?
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Burners being ironic
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mind the walrus posted:What smoothbrain still refers to "hippies" in 2020? The kind that joins the military.
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If we're going to talk about what sounds natural to a native speaker, a long rear end list of adjectives is not natural at all. Also "a brown, large dog" sounds fine if you pause inbetween. If it's clear that you're listing adjectives it makes gently caress all difference how you say them. Of course in fluent speech I'd say "a large brown dog" but also we're talking about writing.
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bike tory posted:Also "a brown, large dog" sounds fine if you pause inbetween. Nah
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No, you see, the breed is a Larjdog. It's a brown Larjdog.
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bike tory posted:If we're going to talk about what sounds natural to a native speaker, a long rear end list of adjectives is not natural at all. No it absolutely doesn't. what the hell
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Goons: "It's so dumb how people changed English just because they wanted to emulate a culture they were obsessed with" Also goons: "We should change numbers so that 46 is read as 'four ten six'"
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bike tory posted:If we're going to talk about what sounds natural to a native speaker, a long rear end list of adjectives is not natural at all. Saying cross streets is another thing that's weird if you don't say them in a specific way. Nobody says Bell Rd. and 7th St. You say 7th St and Bell Rd.
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