My story has a lesbian in it, an incestuous relationship, a pregnancy, and Valentine's day. It doesn't have coworkers, affairs, Holly, Dakota, Kyndal, or Bryce. Wow.
I guess they rewrote your story in their head? So they could complain about it more? On the other hand a few weeks back someone posted a comment they received from a drunk reader- but they apologized apparently- maybe that's what's going on here? But wow.
I really hate using had had, just because I always worry it looks ‘wrong’ to the reader. It looks ‘wrong’ to me whenever I write it. But I almost always leave it in, because it is perfectly grammatical and often insanely useful. Writing around it usually requires at least an extra clause that bogs down the flow.
Do you want a Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional tense? Because that's how you get a Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional tense.
How many times did you wash, rinse, repeat? Maybe one more go around would've met the expectation?
Wait, you wash and rinse between each round of sex?
Depends on how dirty it gets
Yeah, okay, that's fair. Don't want cross-contamination.Depends on how dirty it gets
Maybe video games?
Another place entirely, I got told off for saying that I had read that there are either two or fifteen tenses in English. I was corrected, there are only two: Past and Present. The other apparent tenses are constructs. I checked the book I have, and it agreed, I had misremembered, and it was Alfred the Great* who complained that few clerics knew how to conjugate the fifteen tenses. Since then, the Normans invaded, and English ceased to be of interest to Clerics and so became a feral language with no Academy dictating on Vocabulary, Spelling, and Grammar**.
Several of my WIPs either involve or mention characters playing, actually. I bet they'll love those when (if) I finish them!Maybe video games?
Choose your own movie adventure!Maybe video games?
Laser the corporate books!
If I need a Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional tense, then you are goddamn right I want a Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional tense!
Alas, Bishops are ALWAYS interested in the language...
Please tell me you got the reference, at least?
I was going to say, it doesn't so much ring a bell as a dull thud.
True, but by the time they realised that people liked Shakespeare (you can't actually misspell his name as he had about half a dozen variants), they didn't have the monasteries and monk power to take control. Even the King James version failed to be more than a sea anchor on the evolution of English. As Terry Prachett said (approximate quote) "English doesn't so much as borrow words from another language, but takes it down a dark alley and muggs if for anything of worth."
Like the quote from Pratchett. I've always called English a bastardized language, and I call American English Amerispeak, since to me it's a bastardization of an already bastardized language
That's the one.
English is the dirty mutt of language.Like the quote from Pratchett. I've always called English a bastardized language, and I call American English Amerispeak, since to me it's a bastardization of an already bastardized language
Which is part of its beauty.
Absolutely. It's a cobbled-together monstrosity that's flexible enough to take whatever abuse of language I throw at it.
