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Sennin
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Message 17 of 19

17 April 2010 at 8:06pm | IP Logged

TixhiiDon wrote:

Sorry for jumping in unannounced, but how about?

"...the origin of baby dwarves (no need for a hyphen) and the involvement of females, or
lack thereof, in the process"

I guess it's possible. Either that or the remastered version above but with a comma instead of the "and". In any case the suggestions in this thread were very helpful.

Edited by Sennin on 17 April 2010 at 8:09pm
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Cainntear
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Message 18 of 19

17 April 2010 at 9:21pm | IP Logged

Sennin wrote:

sing wrote:

CONCERNING LIMBS. Add two arms and two legs, but no more. If you add more we have to chop them off later and it-WILL BE A MESSRATHER THAN JUST IS, is a mess. You’ve been warned.

Hmm.. is it an optional or obligatory change?

You have a choice, but not of a plain present. You can use structures in the future or conditional, and you could even use an embedded clause.

If you add more we have to chop them off later and that would make a mess.
If you add more we have to chop them off later, which would be messy.

(edit: "to be a mess" feels odd here. My room is a mess, but doing something makes a mess, or a process can be messy.)

Edited by Cainntear on 17 April 2010 at 9:22pm
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Sennin
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03 May 2010 at 5:05pm | IP Logged

Hi, I'm back with a fresh supply of silly questions.

First of all what is correct to say: "citing by memory" or "citing from memory"? I was convinced it is the first but Google seems to disagree. There are only 500 hits for the first one and about 30 000 for "citing from memory. So I guess, I answered my own question...

Could it be that both are possible?

Cainntear wrote:

Thanks Cainntear. Normally, I would have used the subjunctive there, but I wanted to convey the fact these "commandments" were written by a Dwarf. I wanted it to sound crude and manly, I suppose it just ended up grammatically wrong.

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Anyway, back to my new creation. Here's a link: http://blog.sen-works.net/?langswitch_lang=en&p=470

I hope native speakers here can help me to find any other mistakes. You can quote relevant parts of my text, but I'll just ask you not to copy-paste the WHOLE thing. You are also welcome to comment directly below my article, I don't mind :). I'm sure HTLAL forumers won't be intimidated by the mixture of languages there.

Edited by Sennin on 03 May 2010 at 5:13pm

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