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In my mind this "sentence" validates the need for the rule. :-)
by run4yourlives 15y ago
In my mind this "sentence" validates the need for the rule. :-)
- hugh3 15y agoAh, but can you rephrase it using the rule to make it better? "For what did you bring up that book from out of which I did not want to be read?" Not a huge improvement.
- WiseWeasel 15y agoI'd say it's an improvement; unlike the original, I am able to parse your version.
- hammock 15y agoIt's a shitty and awkward sentence to begin with (with which to begin), primarily because it unnecessarily uses the passive voice to entangle two ideas that are clearer when approached one at a time in the active voice: I didn't want anyone to read out of that book to me. Why did you want to bring it up? See? Contrary to what is suggested above, the whole thing is MUCH better with the active voice. Note that in the case of "bring up," "up" is an adverb, not a preposition, so I am not ending the second sentence with a preposition.
- run4yourlives 15y agoWhy did you bring me this book? I don't want to read it. Speak normally and you don't have an issue. :-)
- mckoss 15y agoSimpler, but with a changed meaning. The original speaker does not want to be read to from the book; he does not contemplate reading it to himself.
- epo 15y ago"I do not want to be read to from that book, why did you bring it?" There is always a better rewrite.
- Groxx 15y agoEvery language has ways of "legally" abusing it. Individual examples of which do not invalidate the language as a whole. See also http://www.ioccc.org/ http://www.ioccc.org/ .