Author Topic: Quotes from work (Read 180767 times)

Jonathon · « **Reply #1200 on:** January 15, 2013, 09:52:40 AM »

From an author's corrections:

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Should this read "her's" rather than "hers"?

No, it should not.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1201 on:** January 16, 2013, 12:32:51 PM »

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In 1851, he reported of the celebration of the 4th of July in Salt Lake City of the people “whose flair is as amazing as their hard-work and energy.”

BlackBlade · « **Reply #1202 on:** January 16, 2013, 12:41:09 PM »

No kidding! The Mormons had only been in Utah just shy of four years by that point. Hard-work and energy I can believe. Flair? Weren't they all in adobes at that point?

Jonathon · « **Reply #1203 on:** January 16, 2013, 01:09:25 PM »

I'm just complaining about the way disjointed thoughts are smashed together into a sentence that's only barely grammatical.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1204 on:** January 17, 2013, 09:55:22 AM »

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In accordance with Dan and I's correspondence . . .

Ack! No! No no no no.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #1205 on:** January 17, 2013, 10:16:32 AM »

Quote from: Jonathon on January 17, 2013, 09:55:22 AM

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In accordance with Dan and I's correspondence . . .

Ack! No! No no no no.

One very important grammatical moment in my life was when a friend of mine pointed out that when I want to say, "Noun and I/me did something" to simply say the sentence to myself without the other noun. If it sounded weird, then I had it wrong.

Worked much better than what I'd heard in school about "the subject of a preposition..."

rivka · « **Reply #1206 on:** January 17, 2013, 10:20:49 AM »

BB, yeah, that's definitely the best method for most people.

Porter · « **Reply #1207 on:** January 17, 2013, 10:36:10 AM »

:nod:

That "trick" is what I do too.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #1208 on:** January 19, 2013, 04:55:05 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on January 16, 2013, 12:32:51 PM

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In 1851, he reported of the celebration of the 4th of July in Salt Lake City of the people “whose flair is as amazing as their hard-work and energy.”

It needs another prepositional phrase or two, right?

Jonathon · « **Reply #1209 on:** January 19, 2013, 05:03:48 PM »

Couldn't hurt.

pooka · « **Reply #1210 on:** January 23, 2013, 03:02:14 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on January 17, 2013, 09:55:22 AM

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In accordance with Dan and I's correspondence . . .

Ack! No! No no no no.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1211 on:** February 01, 2013, 10:03:53 AM »

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He told Brigham, “If it was his wish that I should go I would do so though to human calculation it seemed difficult.” He asked Brigham if he should prepare to leave in the fall, and Brigham replied, “he reckoned I could get ready and be off in four or five days.”

No. He did not tell Brigham that, and Brigham did not reply that way. They might have each said something to that effect, but this is clearly an account of a conversation, not the conversation itself. And of course the author didn't provide source citations, so I don't know what to do with it besides writing a lengthy marginal query.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #1212 on:** February 01, 2013, 10:10:29 AM »

Perhaps the account comes from a journal mentioning the specifics of what was said?

Jonathon · « **Reply #1213 on:** February 01, 2013, 10:23:24 AM »

Presumably. I don't know for a fact, though, so I can't reframe it like "He recorded in his journal, 'If it was his wish . . .'" I'll have to rely on the author to fix it.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #1214 on:** February 01, 2013, 10:34:40 AM »

Yeah for sure. I would say that *does* sounds like Brother Brigham.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1215 on:** February 27, 2013, 10:49:43 AM »

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A fossilized, run-into-a-groove teacher, in short, a pedant, is an incubus upon the profession.

From Karl G. Maeser.

dkw · « **Reply #1216 on:** February 27, 2013, 11:23:35 AM »

Vivid, but unclear.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1217 on:** February 27, 2013, 11:57:59 AM »

I thought it was clear. I was just taken aback by the use of "incubus".

BlackBlade · « **Reply #1218 on:** February 27, 2013, 02:39:25 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on February 27, 2013, 11:57:59 AM

I thought it was clear. I was just taken aback by the use of "incubus".

Why? I guess incubus is a bit too strong of a metaphor, since one teacher can hardly hold back the entire profession.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1219 on:** February 27, 2013, 02:44:31 PM »

An incubus is literally a demon that rapes women in their sleep. More metaphorically, it's a nightmare or merely something that acts like a nightmare.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #1220 on:** February 27, 2013, 02:50:25 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on February 27, 2013, 02:44:31 PM

An incubus is literally a demon that rapes women in their sleep. More metaphorically, it's a nightmare or merely something that acts like a nightmare.

I'm aware of what the word means. I was assuming he was using it in the "weighs on somebody like a nightmare" sense.

Jonathon · « **Reply #1221 on:** February 27, 2013, 02:55:14 PM »

Right. I think it's clear that that's how he meant it, but the primary sense is disturbing enough that I think it overpowered the intended meaning for me.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #1222 on:** February 27, 2013, 02:59:14 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on February 27, 2013, 02:55:14 PM

Right. I think it's clear that that's how he meant it, but the primary sense is disturbing enough that I think it overpowered the intended meaning for me.

Sure. I actually initially only knew about the nightmare meaning (because of the band Incubus). A few years ago I learned the demonic definition which was weird because I had known about the succubus from a very young age.

dkw · « **Reply #1223 on:** February 27, 2013, 05:38:29 PM »

Ah. I didn't know about the nightmare or something that acts like a nightmare definition, so I was trying to figure out in what way a boring teacher could possibly be a demon-rapist upon the profession.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #1224 on:** February 27, 2013, 06:44:39 PM »

When you find out a $5 word has a definition you didn't know about, is that like finding out you can use US dollars without any issues in the Philippines?