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Did anyone have to read that title 5 times to get the meaning straight? Talk about bad syntax.
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ummm. i've never even heard of the Office of Special Councel before (OSC) at first i was expecting this to be about Orson Scott Card that's the only thing that made it confusing for me
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I read the whole thing before i realise that they wern't talking about an aide to orson or something.
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I think I only had to read that title four times before it all fell into place. Syntactically it's perfectly well-formed, but in writing it's pretty hard to parse because the verb in the subordinate clause could be read as a noun, while one of the nouns could be read as a verb.
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quote:Did anyone have to read that title 5 times to get the meaning straight? Talk about bad syntax.
Agreed, horrible writing. I even tried to find out if the site was British or American, but naturally I couldn't (it is too poorly written and organized).
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