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It's not "imminently listenable", it's "eminently listenable". The first phrase means we are going to listen very, very soon; the latter means it's very listena
by javajosh 5y ago
It's not "imminently listenable", it's "eminently listenable". The first phrase means we are going to listen very, very soon; the latter means it's very listenable.
(Normally I wouldn't nitpick, but this is a post about writing and the mistake is in the 2nd paragraph so. Also, the tip is to read aloud.)
- elpakal 5y agoupvote from me for the tldr, thanks!
- hyperpallium2 5y agoSounds like the tip fails for homonyms.
- lupire 5y agoSounds like the tip falls for homophones.
- hyperpallium2 5y ago:( I didn't read my comment aloud. The "sounds" part was deliberate though.
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- kelsus 5y agoIt says "eminently listenable" now. Nice catch.
- 8dfu8uasd 5y ago> It's not "imminently listenable", it's "eminently listenable". Are you sure this isn't a deliberate wordplay? A tiger ready to pounce on you in the jungle is an imminent danger; a great story read by a skilled voice actor is imminently listenable. Also, you put the comma and period outside your double quotes. We computer programmers often do this, but this is incorrect in American English: the punctuation goes inside the double quotes. In British English the punctuation does indeed go outside the quotes unless the punctuation is actually being quoted, but the British use single quotes.[1] American English: "Your color is changing," she said. British English: `Your colour is changing', she said. [1] https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/does-punctuation-go-inside-or-outside-quotation-marks/ https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/does-punctuation-go-insi...
- permo-w 5y ago>the British use single quotes That’s not true, or at least it’s not what I was taught at my British primary school, and it’s not what you see people use. Maybe historically that’s true, I don’t know. The current British consensus is to use double quotes. Sometimes you see single quotes in headlines when the author doesn’t want to imply that they’re making a direct quote
- stefandesu 5y agoI'm a non-native English speaker and I somewhat deliberately mix different parts of American and British English. For example, I usually use American spelling, but for some things (like "toward" vs. "towards") the British way (or rather the way which is more common in Britain compared to America) sounds "more right" to me. I also put commas/periods outside quotes because I could never understand why they should be inside.
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- antonvs 5y ago> Are you sure this isn't a deliberate wordplay? Apparently not, because the author has since corrected it. > the British use single quotes.[1] It's not that simple, because "the British" rather notoriously spread to many places. There are large ex-colony countries like Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, where English is the primary language; and others where it's a major official language, like South Africa and India. When it comes to rules like the ones you mention, they tend to vary because of varying degrees of American vs. British influence, as well as local variation; and of course, this all changes over time. A better and more realistic treatment of the subject of punctuation in quotes can be found here: https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pun1.htm https://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pun1.htm
- permo-w 5y agosince we’re being pedantic, the first phrase actually means that we’ll be able to listen very soon, not that we will