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I like your logic. Using it, George Bush is better at everything a President does than anyone who isn't President, because he has the job, and they don't.
Those who can't, teach.Originally Posted by flux=rad
Even if there's a better way to write it, if an editor says it's acceptable, I'm going to have to say it's fine the way it is.
I like your logic. Using it, George Bush is better at everything a President does than anyone who isn't President, because he has the job, and they don't.
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I don't get all the queefing over one comma in one post, but is it possible to move all relevant posts about it to fight club? It could become awesome.
Your analogy is completely inacurate (like every analogy I've ever seen you make). Presidents are elected and therefor it doesn't matter if they're actually qualified for a position, it just matters that the average american prefers them. A better analogy would be saying that computer technicians are better with computers than all non computer technicians just becuase they have the job; which I'm sure isn't the case.
Still, while I'm sure there's people out there who are better at editing than this editor, you for sure are not one of them. Becuase if you're better at math than an editor is at editing you'd be working for NASA.
Last edited by Opaque; 24 Sep 2006 at 06:04 PM.
Like Hell it did. TNL isn't CNN, remember.
Mencia uses that in his act as a derisive interjection when he is talking about someone who is a total moron. Ms. DeJesus here frankly meets that qualification.
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lol what?
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The problem is that you haven't even talked to the editor. Calliander told you that he talked to an editor. We don't know what the hell Calliander actually said about your sentence (did he give him the entire sentence? did he just tell him the basic idea of the sentence?). I've explained in pretty good detail why I think your sentence is wrong. I have yet to hear a counter-argument from anyone. "My dad says I'm right and you're wrong" is not a counter-argument.
An editor for a large publishing house (A) is about as high as it gets in editing. Working for NASA (B) is about as high as it gets for math.
Which means A=B.
If you're better at math than you are at english, and you're better at english than an editor, then wouldn't you be default be more than good enough at math to work at NASA?
Yoshi = C
C > A
A = B
C > B
Last edited by Opaque; 24 Sep 2006 at 06:19 PM.
I said the "and" took care of connecting the two thoughts.
I also agree with Calliander and his example of how my sentence could have been truely ambiguous. Since my sentence wasn't ambigious the way it was written, there should be no confusion.
Your logic is just fucking terrible. There are probably millions of people who are equally near-perfect at grammar. There are a few thousand that are at the same level for math. Somehow, none of those millions that know grammar better than this editor got his job.
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