"You mean, business tems."
Source: http://roosterteeth.com/comics/strip.php?id=852
Showing posts with label omission. Show all posts
Showing posts with label omission. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
Don't leave me hanging!!
From roosterteeth.com:
You probably want to find out more about my radical new technique. Don't worry, I'm planning on writing my thesis about.
You always hear grammar nerds saying how you shouldn't end a sentence with a prepostion. This isn't exactly one of those cases. Rather, the problem here is ending the sentence with a preposition because they left out the object of the preposition. I think it's safe to assume that he's writing his thesis about the "radical new technique" referenced in the previous sentence, but it could just as easily be something completely different.
Source: http://roosterteeth.com/viewEntry.php?id=1378
You probably want to find out more about my radical new technique. Don't worry, I'm planning on writing my thesis about.
You always hear grammar nerds saying how you shouldn't end a sentence with a prepostion. This isn't exactly one of those cases. Rather, the problem here is ending the sentence with a preposition because they left out the object of the preposition. I think it's safe to assume that he's writing his thesis about the "radical new technique" referenced in the previous sentence, but it could just as easily be something completely different.
Source: http://roosterteeth.com/viewEntry.php?id=1378
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Sawing logs... backlogs, that is.
This story actually came out a while ago, but I'm still working through my backlog from last month. Neocrisis reported on the arrival of video-game trade-in kiosks at Walmart, but noted the system is still pretty buggy:
However once you do so, there is a glitch that logs you out immidiately entering your information.
This sentence actually has a couple of errors in it. First, the misspelling of 'immediately,' followed by the omission of the word 'after,' as in 'logs you out immediately after entering your information.'
Source: http://neocrisis.com/content/view/3918/1/
Addendum: Later in the article, I found this spelling mistake:
I took a few of my games to test it out. Final Fantasy 12, Godfather 2, Mirror's Edge, Ractchet and Clank, Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando and Burnout 3: Takedown.
However once you do so, there is a glitch that logs you out immidiately entering your information.
This sentence actually has a couple of errors in it. First, the misspelling of 'immediately,' followed by the omission of the word 'after,' as in 'logs you out immediately after entering your information.'
Source: http://neocrisis.com/content/view/3918/1/
Addendum: Later in the article, I found this spelling mistake:
I took a few of my games to test it out. Final Fantasy 12, Godfather 2, Mirror's Edge, Ractchet and Clank, Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando and Burnout 3: Takedown.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Hide and Seek?
It's easy to make a typo or skip a letter when writing out a quick blog post. Not so simple, I imagine, would be skipping an entire word. This seems to be the case in the following, from a Boing Boing Gadgets post about using Nike+ to help train when running.
What irked me about the idea of running was that I had nothing to measure my progress against. "It feels good" and "it improves heart health" were too amorphous and unquantifiable for me. I needed something that would keep count the way we keep score in basketball or volleyball, the I know I just climbed a 5-10b at the climbing gym or rocked a double black diamond skiing.
What I want to focus on is there in the last sentence. It just feels incomplete. My best guess, she was trying to describe the feeling of accomplishment and left out the "feeling" part at the end. Another complaint: since this is being used as a descriptor, a sort of compound adjective, it should be hyphenated - "the I-know-I-just-did-that-cool-stuff feeling." Perhaps it's just my personal opinion, but I think it serves a purpose here.
Source: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/28/how-nike-plus-is-hel.html
What irked me about the idea of running was that I had nothing to measure my progress against. "It feels good" and "it improves heart health" were too amorphous and unquantifiable for me. I needed something that would keep count the way we keep score in basketball or volleyball, the I know I just climbed a 5-10b at the climbing gym or rocked a double black diamond skiing.
What I want to focus on is there in the last sentence. It just feels incomplete. My best guess, she was trying to describe the feeling of accomplishment and left out the "feeling" part at the end. Another complaint: since this is being used as a descriptor, a sort of compound adjective, it should be hyphenated - "the I-know-I-just-did-that-cool-stuff feeling." Perhaps it's just my personal opinion, but I think it serves a purpose here.
Source: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/28/how-nike-plus-is-hel.html
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