Re: [b] -- Best advert

[Subintellectual <subintellectual@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Mailer wrote:
> Subintellectual wrote:
>
> > > It would never be me enjoying an advert.
> >
> > How about with a comma? Because your enjoyment is essentially 
> > abstract, so hard to capture on video. Whereas you, I understand, are 
> > real.
>
> Well, if you put a comma there, then you have abused the nominative with 
> a naughty accusative, haven't you? So no cigar. When a gerund sounds 
> clumsy, then reform the phrase with a simpler, more direct construction.

It's sad that this still annoys me.


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Someone get that up on the tags, quick. 


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