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September 26th, 2013 | #1 |
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Is this wrong?
For someone with great grammatical knowledge: is this (first) sentence I contrived, which says exactly and precisely what I intend, grammatically wrong?
(tweet) Like every other fortysomething, I feel I music was better 20 years ago. <---------------the sentence in question This is not proof. This is a Divinyls video. … Last edited by Alex Linder; September 26th, 2013 at 12:53 AM. |
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Dude, music was better 40 years ago. Someone hand me my cane. I don't have any grammatical knowledge, but I'm a giver none the less.
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That's my point. EVERYONE thinks music was best in his coming of age years, roughly 12-25. And they think that because THEY were better then. Which is what I tried to express concisely elegantly, without falling into poetry. So you stumble over what I said, but it's written to cause that. It appears to be a typo or a missed edit, but it's not, and you see that when you read it the second time. That's the idea anyway.
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That's approaching profound, Alex.
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Why do you ask, Alex? Did someone, elsewhere, 'take issue' with that sentence on grammatical grounds?
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Other than that, I don't see any grammatical problems with that sentence. I also would have hyphenated 'forty-something', [/quote] If you're using it as a noun, as I was, it's better not to hyphenate it. I would hyphenate it as an adjective. The term originated with the show Thirtysomething, which I don't think was hyphenated. Quote:
I SAID: the sentence reads exactly the way I want it. My question is whether the 'I music' part is ungrammatical. I don't think so. And if not, if legitimate, what the term is for two nouns together like that. OOPS MY APOLOGIES I EDITED THIS POST RATHER THAN RESPONDED TO IT, SORRY MN DALVEZ. Last edited by Alex Linder; September 27th, 2013 at 01:08 AM. |
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I tend to over-hyphenate.
There. I said it.
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My biggest problem is that I use parentheses (or brackets) far too much. At least, I do that when I'm writing here.
I'm also ashamed of my utterly pitiful grasp of the Dutch language, considering that it's my ancestral language and considering that Dutch is so, so similar to English in so many ways. |
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Which is the VNN way after all.
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Mind you, there are times when capitalising the seasons is the correct thing to do. |
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At the beginning of a sentence.
Or as part of a proper name. |
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I'm a perfectionist at heart. I did the hyphen thing again, didn't I?
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Well, you are a gypsy. Wait.. Should 'gypsy' be capitalized?
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Hey, SUNOFSPARTA, you take that back! Grammar is not boring!
(Well, okay, maybe it is a little bit boring ... ) Quote:
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Heer at VNNf I've learned the utility of italicization.
(thanks, Donnie. I owe you one, man.)
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I agree with the structure proposed by MND.
I am guilty of overuse of the en dash.
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Yeah, OK, 'proper noun' was a better way to say it, but that's what 'proper name' means.
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