elynross linked the essays and they are truly wonderful! I think the purple prose in particular is outstanding, because you manage to *analyze* what most of us simply react to with incomprehension, laughter, and backward click.
the epithet issue has been addressed so many times, but i really loved they way you showed when and how they *are* appropriate. only in contrast did the wrongness of the bad examples really come through (asnd the warrick/gambler one was wonderful!).
as a non-native speaker, i was particularly fascinated by the transitive/intransitive examples; i didn't read a couple of them intuitively as wrong, because in my native language they are intransitive (or can be). not that that's ever an excuse. i barely post without a proofreader :-)
thank you so much for a enjoyable read as well as an excellent reference tool!
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the epithet issue has been addressed so many times, but i really loved they way you showed when and how they *are* appropriate. only in contrast did the wrongness of the bad examples really come through (asnd the warrick/gambler one was wonderful!).
as a non-native speaker, i was particularly fascinated by the transitive/intransitive examples; i didn't read a couple of them intuitively as wrong, because in my native language they are intransitive (or can be). not that that's ever an excuse. i barely post without a proofreader :-)
thank you so much for a enjoyable read as well as an excellent reference tool!