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dar512 · 08-19-2005, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Queen of the Ryche

1.) Lack of spelling or grammAr errors do not quality writing make.
2.) See above.

And long sentences do not imply bad writing. For every Hemingway there is a Faulkner or a London. You just don't run into long sentences much these days. Modern readers raised on Sesame Street and MTV don't have the patience for it.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-19-2005, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by dar512

And long sentences do not imply bad writing. For every Hemingway there is a Faulkner or a London. You just don't run into long sentences much these days. Modern readers raised on Sesame Street and MTV don't have the patience for it.

Right...just the other day I sent someone an email consisting of two sentences. The first contained 185 words and the second, two words.

08-19-2005, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by dar512

And long sentences do not imply bad writing. For every Hemingway there is a Faulkner or a London. You just don't run into long sentences much these days. Modern readers raised on Sesame Street and MTV don't have the patience for it.

Long setences don't imply good writing, either. Brevity is the soul of wit. Something I often tend to forget, myself.

Queen of the Ryche · 08-19-2005, 03:56 PM

So sad but so true. I think I'll start my two year old on Beowulf and Chaucer right away. Okay, maybe when she's five.

Bullitt · 08-19-2005, 04:02 PM

Yeah, Beowulf would be a bit much for a 5 year old.. the whole ripping off of limbs, mass killing of the innocent and whatnot

I'd start with The Canterbury Tales

Trilby · 08-19-2005, 04:05 PM

Yeah, but there's all that sex in there...and the Wyf of Bath is beyond the pale, quite!

Queen of the Ryche · 08-19-2005, 04:07 PM

But Beowulf is a funny funny story! As is Gawain and the Green Knight - great humor back in the day...
Maybe Pilgrims Progress? Or a little Joyce to lighten things up? HA HA

Trilby · 08-19-2005, 04:10 PM

There's always Jonathan Swift for long-assed sentences and words you can't pronounce and probably on second thought aren't real words, anyway...

wolf · 08-20-2005, 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Brianna

There's always Jonathan Swift for long-assed sentences and words you can't pronounce and probably on second thought aren't real words, anyway...

Introducing 6 year olds to "A Modest Proposal" as bedtime reading really helps to keep them in line.

Queen of the Ryche · 08-19-2005, 04:13 PM

I actually enjoy watching Sesame Street. The bits have some good hidden adult humor, and are just long enough for my two year old's TV-watching attention span; her book attention span is actually a good half hour to forty five minutes - pretty amazing she is. (Her newest words are "probably", and "because" - ask her what color something is, she'll now reply with a strange sentece like "it's probably green, because not yellow.")

richlevy · 08-19-2005, 09:01 PM

As an English major I was subjected to Henry James and John Milton. I do not want to repeat the experience.

BigV · 08-20-2005, 02:30 AM

Yeah, at six they're getting a little tougher :wink:

Clodfobble · 08-20-2005, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by marichiko

OK, the first sentence begins with a conjunction, which is a no-no.

"As" is a preposition, not a conjunction. You can begin a sentence with a preposition, you're just not supposed to end a sentence with one.

I personally agree the writing sucks, I'm just sayin'.

08-20-2005, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

"As" is a preposition, not a conjunction. You can begin a sentence with a preposition, you're just not supposed to end a sentence with one.

I personally agree the writing sucks, I'm just sayin'.

Clodfobble, I, too, was thinking that "as" is a preposition, but that didn't seem right, so I looked it up in Merriam Webster:

Main Entry:as
Function:conjunction
Date:12th century

1 : AS IF *looks as he had seen a ghost — S. T. Coleridge*
2 : in or to the same degree in which *soft as silk* — usually used as a correlative after an adjective or adverb modified by adverbial as or so *as cool as a cucumber*
3 : in the way or manner that *do as I do*
4 : in accordance with what or the way in which *quite good as boys go*
5 : WHILE, WHEN *spilled the milk as she got up*
6 : regardless of the degree to which : THOUGH *improbable as it seems, it's true*
7 : for the reason that : BECAUSE, SINCE *stayed home as she had no car*
8 : that the result is *so clearly guilty as to leave no doubt*
usage see LIKE
–as is : in the presently existing condition without modification *bought the clock at an auction as is*
–as it were : as if it were so : in a manner of speaking

Clodfobble · 08-20-2005, 06:54 PM

Well alright, I stand corrected. It's also a preposition according to Merriam-Webster online, but the way it's used in the article it is considered a conjunction.

08-19-2005, 03:56 PM	#4
Queen of the Ryche is fleeing the scene Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Beautiful CO Posts: 1,510	So sad but so true. I think I'll start my two year old on Beowulf and Chaucer right away. Okay, maybe when she's five. __________________ Once, in an interview, Chuck Norris admitted that he was not the most awesome thing ever. He declined to elaborate; but I believe we all know that he was referring to the existence of chocolate covered bacon. I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.

08-19-2005, 04:02 PM	#5
Bullitt This is a fully functional babe lair Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Akron, OH Posts: 2,324	Yeah, Beowulf would be a bit much for a 5 year old.. the whole ripping off of limbs, mass killing of the innocent and whatnot I'd start with The Canterbury Tales __________________ Kiss my white Irish ass.

08-19-2005, 04:05 PM	#6
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	Yeah, but there's all that sex in there...and the Wyf of Bath is beyond the pale, quite! __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

08-19-2005, 04:07 PM	#7
Queen of the Ryche is fleeing the scene Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Beautiful CO Posts: 1,510	But Beowulf is a funny funny story! As is Gawain and the Green Knight - great humor back in the day... Maybe Pilgrims Progress? Or a little Joyce to lighten things up? HA HA __________________ Once, in an interview, Chuck Norris admitted that he was not the most awesome thing ever. He declined to elaborate; but I believe we all know that he was referring to the existence of chocolate covered bacon. I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.

08-19-2005, 04:10 PM	#8
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	There's always Jonathan Swift for long-assed sentences and words you can't pronounce and probably on second thought aren't real words, anyway... __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

08-19-2005, 04:13 PM	#10
Queen of the Ryche is fleeing the scene Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Beautiful CO Posts: 1,510	I actually enjoy watching Sesame Street. The bits have some good hidden adult humor, and are just long enough for my two year old's TV-watching attention span; her book attention span is actually a good half hour to forty five minutes - pretty amazing she is. (Her newest words are "probably", and "because" - ask her what color something is, she'll now reply with a strange sentece like "it's probably green, because not yellow.") __________________ Once, in an interview, Chuck Norris admitted that he was not the most awesome thing ever. He declined to elaborate; but I believe we all know that he was referring to the existence of chocolate covered bacon. I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.

08-19-2005, 09:01 PM	#11
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	As an English major I was subjected to Henry James and John Milton. I do not want to repeat the experience. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

08-20-2005, 02:30 AM	#12
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Yeah, at six they're getting a little tougher :wink: __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

08-20-2005, 06:54 PM	#15
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Well alright, I stand corrected. It's also a preposition according to Merriam-Webster online, but the way it's used in the article it is considered a conjunction.

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