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This style of writing was annoying to me, and I couldn't make it all the way through the article, but I take it that you don't need to install these skills befo

• civilized 6y ago
  > What they found was a security Emmenthal that would make a mouse wonder whether there was any cheese there at all. One of the most overwrought sentences I've ever read
  • awillen 6y ago
    But how else would you know that the author went to college?!?! Edit: Also the third paragraph: "I concluded that the idea was arrant bonkers, as are most things Alexa-enabled." Arrant should be arrantly (or not used at all because, c'mon, we get it, you went to college). If you want to write all hoighty-toighty-like, you ought to at least get the grammar right.
    • perl4ever 6y ago
      I think the author was trying to sound UKian and meant to write "arrant bollocks". Unless of course, I'm not up to date and they are all saying "arrant bonkers" now.
    • dragonwriter 6y ago
      “Arrant bonkers” is grammatically correct if one is using “bonkers” in the plural noun sense of “several of those who bonk” and not the adjective sense of “mad, crazy” (which seems likely to derive as metpahor from the noun sense.) Actually, modifying adjectives that are exactly nouns used metaphorically as if you were modifying the original noun (thus invoking the original metaphor, directly) rather than the adjective it has become in practice isn't all that uncommon.
      • awillen 6y ago
        This is clearly not the case based on the singular form of the verb preceding the phrase.