Comic Book Plus Forum
Help And Support => Suggestions => Topic started by: kusunoki on October 02, 2008, 04:58:35 PM
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Just a thought here, but is there anyway that we could start up a sticky with a list of all the series that the site has complete runs of (apparently according to official rules, one can now end sentences with prepositions). It might be a help to those of us putting together archives.
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Hi K,
If you would like to start such a list I've created a new topic in the 'Comic Talk' section where you can save it.
I know we've got a few compete runs but just off the top of my head I can't recall them.
When I've noticed in the past I've added that info in the description of the title on the site.
A list of which titles are within an issue or so of being complete and which are needed would be a good thing as well.
-Yoc
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(apparently according to official rules, one can now end sentences with prepositions)
Not useful to the actual thread, but since this is one of the very few things I know that people sometimes find interesting, I should mention that the preposition "rule" is nothing more than a holdover from when Latin was the language of the learned (read aloud as "the learn-ed," obviously). The rule makes sense in Latin (as I understand it), because a preposition at the end sounds awkward, but it's artificial in English.
As a friend's linguistics professor told him when he was in college, though, "there's nothing in Latin that we should aspire to."
My friend tells me that nobody else in the room laughed at that. Oh, well.
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Then there was the little boy who complained to his father who had brought a book about Australia to read him his bedtime story ...
"Daddy why did you bring that book I didn't want to be read to out of from about Down Under up for?
managing 9 prepositions at the sentence end (though of course Down Under is a cheat)
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Thanks Yoc for making the thread, and thanks everyone else for linguistic entertainingness (I'm not shy about off-the-cuff neologisms, either.)