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Natoli
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Registered: 2002-2-1 11:53:08
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Date Posted:
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So would you say she was inept at using the word?
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Caoilin
Title: Instigator
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Registered: 2001-11-20 00:03:45
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Date Posted:
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yes. yes i would. 
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Onslaught.
Title: I've always wanted a title.
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Registered: 2001-2-13 13:46:37
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Date Posted:
9/11/11 6:06pm
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I still prefer that kind of thing to Gaiman or King who think using multiple paragraph long run on sentences is okay if they feel that it fits the pace of the introduction or plot line that they're trying to introduce or that stringing together lots of conjunctions is completely fine as long as you are expressing some kind of concise point describing imagery or fundamentals of character development along with providing something that is marginally interesting to say so long as it fits in to what your idea of good writing is, and who is to say what good writing is; Both of them are best selling authors so they can pretty much get away with doing whatever the hell they want(of course sometimes they do it with brackets and other such nonsense as though they're writing an aside and it makes it very confusing to understand what they're saying as a whole, but they just keep on going without giving the reader a chance to take a break).
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GrimTempest
Title: Board Manager
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Posts: 977
Registered: 2001-12-21 01:36:49
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Date Posted:
9/11/11 6:06pm
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this sort of reminds me of the minor rant harry went on about the usage of the term "decimated" at the end of ghost story 
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poenadare
Posts: 381
Registered: 2001-11-5 08:09:53
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Date Posted:
9/11/11 6:06pm
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nonplussed is like inflammible in the UK. Only this time its the colonies' fault.
Oxford says:
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nonplussed
Pronunciation:/n?n'pl?st/
adjective
1 so surprised and confused that one is unsure how to react:
Henry looked completely nonplussed
2 North American informal not disconcerted; unperturbed.
Usage
In standard use nonplussed means ‘surprised and confused’, as in she was nonplussed at his eagerness to help out. In North American English a new use has developed in recent years, meaning ‘unperturbed’ — more or less the opposite of its traditional meaning — as in he was clearly trying to appear nonplussed. This new use probably arose on the assumption that non- was the normal negative prefix and must therefore have a negative meaning. It is not considered part of standard English
So if Oxford disses the new Amerukin definition then I'm down with that.
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Date Posted:
9/11/11 6:06pm
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Onslaught. posted:
I still prefer that kind of thing to Gaiman or King who think using multiple paragraph long run on sentences is okay if they feel that it fits the pace of the introduction or plot line that they're trying to introduce or that stringing together lots of conjunctions is completely fine as long as you are expressing some kind of concise point describing imagery or fundamentals of character development along with providing something that is marginally interesting to say so long as it fits in to what your idea of good writing is, and who is to say what good writing is; Both of them are best selling authors so they can pretty much get away with doing whatever the hell they want(of course sometimes they do it with brackets and other such nonsense as though they're writing an aside and it makes it very confusing to understand what they're saying as a whole, but they just keep on going without giving the reader a chance to take a break).
Lol
Still enjoy those two, but that's certainly true.
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Date Posted:
9/11/11 6:06pm
Subject:
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Apt usage. I think it threw you because she/he led off with it before relating the characters thoughts fully.
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