Improve language
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Topic: Improve language
Posted By: MariusAA
Subject: Improve language
Date Posted: October 14 2014 at 14:04
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Why Magma biographers, reviewers (http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=646) write "peace" for "piece", "languish" for "language"...? Kobaļan influence? Peace. --Marius |
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Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: October 14 2014 at 15:00
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^ I guess it's Dutch influence, quite forgivable if English is not one's native language. Anyway, thanks, I've peplaced "peace" with "piece" in the bio. If you don't like "languish" you can contact the reviewer who used this word.  ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: October 14 2014 at 15:19
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This is an international site, and as long as people write reviews in a language that people can understand even though it“s not perfect or grammatically correct, I“m pretty sure the owners of the site (who themselves are second language English speakers), condone those kinds of reviews. Personally I think it would be great if people pointed out my grammatical errors, so I could correct them, but I“m not sure others would take it the same way. ------------- http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/" rel="nofollow - Metal Music Archives https://rateyourmusic.com/~UMUR" rel="nofollow - UMUR on RYM |
Posted By: MariusAA
Date Posted: October 14 2014 at 15:37
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Wow, that was fast! Thanks. Yeah, it's always sensitive to make language remarks, hence my failed attempt of humoring it up. In general the language level is quite good in the bios and reviews (including Magma's) so maybe that's precisely why these particular mistakes struck me. BTW the mistakes were homophones. Miracle cure: read more (Poe, Neville, Adams, Dick, Heinlein, Asimov, King James...) |
Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: October 14 2014 at 18:04
If you'll find other grammatical errors in bios, please report them (by your choice, with or without humour) in this thread: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=82726" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=82726 , we'll gladly correct them. ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
MariusAA wrote:Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 15 2014 at 03:15
Russian influence  ? ------------- 
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Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: October 15 2014 at 12:56
^ Obviously, cyrillic "p" sounds like latin "r".  ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 16 2014 at 03:51
That's true. I didn't even think of that .-------------
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Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: October 16 2014 at 04:04
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^ In fact it was just a mistyping. ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: October 16 2014 at 06:31
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Posted By: Argonaught
Date Posted: October 16 2014 at 18:02
Something four the Knit Peaking Bored two way in on |