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Fantastic word game

Sorry, Quad, I don't believe that is a complete sentence.
Actually, it isn't a complete sentence, but, of course, it isn't up to me to regulate y'alls game. ;)
 
Seems perfectly fine to me.

sKenJenningssummers is one of those words that prove difficult when attempting to write a simple declarative sentence.
 
Ssummers said:
Sorry, Quad, I don't believe that is a complete sentence.
Actually, it isn't a complete sentence, but, of course, it isn't up to me to regulate y'alls game. ;)
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It wasn't a completely complete sentence, bearing both subject AND verb expressly.
But the subject, in this case, "the media," was implied by the previous sentence.
So to avoid banal repetition, I carried the subject to the next sentence by implication.
I would say it might have been hard to follow, given that my reply started on a whole new page (BTW #535! Sall-oot!)

It's your game too man, ya Thunderdome liker. Don't be bashful when you're parsing with me, just remember, as always when you're parsing with quadraphonic, you're wrong. :D

Sentence sKenJenningssummers to a demerit and subsequent loss of privileges and a timeout for a period not to exceed 3 hours is what I have to do, because that, my friends, is the verdict!
 
The verdict does not take into account that the offending sentence was written in a conversational style.
 
quadraphonic said:
Ssummers said:
Sorry, Quad, I don't believe that is a complete sentence.
Actually, it isn't a complete sentence, but, of course, it isn't up to me to regulate y'alls game. ;)
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It wasn't a completely complete sentence, bearing both subject AND verb expressly.
But the subject, in this case, "the media," was implied by the previous sentence.
So to avoid banal repetition, I carried the subject to the next sentence by implication.
I would say it might have been hard to follow, given that my reply started on a whole new page (BTW #535! Sall-oot!)

It's your game too man, ya Thunderdome liker. Don't be bashful when you're parsing with me, just remember, as always when you're parsing with quadraphonic, you're wrong. :D

Sentence sKenJenningssummers to a demerit and subsequent loss of privileges and a timeout for a period not to exceed 3 hours is what I have to do, because that, my friends, is the verdict!
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That's exactly what I was referring to, my friend. Although I realize that each game participant's sentences do occasionally relate to previous sentences, I was under the impression that each of the game sentence offerings themselves have to be complete "stand alone" sentences without regard to any other sentence submitted as an entry into said game. I stand corrected. However, I must admit another truth...that is the first time I was ever incorrect in my life and even that incorrectness was due to lack of pertinent information.
Having said that, Let me also say:
Style is in the eyes of the beholder.
 
Beholder of style is not something in which I will ever hold a career.



(The sentence in question seemed fine to me too. And, if it's fine by me, then it's fine for the game. ;D )
 
WMC2006 said:
Beholder of style is not something in which I will ever hold a career.



(The sentence in question seemed fine to me too. And, if it's fine by me, then it's fine for the game. ;D )
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A career is meaningless without a job.

By itself, as I stated and as Quad admitted, it was an incorrect sentence. No verb. However, if the sentence is, in fact following the previous sentence offering, contentwise, it could be construed as correct in some circles because some might consider the verb implied from the previous sentence. I was unaware that a sentence didn't have to "stand alone" as a grammatically and structurally complete sentence on its own.
Still, there are some professorial English Jedi types that would have an aneurysm.
 
Job by job and paycheck by paycheck is how some people survive day by day.



Raptus might have had an aneurysm with that sentence but he doesn't show up anymore. We need to find him. We need to find Stuart too. Andrea, next time you've got all your boys in one basket, form a search committee and go look for them, ok? ;)
 
Day by day, time marches on and on and on and on and on.


I think I said "incomplete" sKenJenningssummers, not "incorrect." The sentence lacked an explicit subject, but was still "correct" in the sense that it said what it was intended to say. I would check, but I'm too lazy errrrr busy and gogogogo hectic to scroll back through now. Several people have gotten their TPS Reports in early this week so I have a pile of paperwork already. But it's all good, less to do tomorrow, maybe I can spend it figuring out this new $15,000 home-buyers' tax credit and whatnot.
 
"On and On" was a song by Stephen Bishop.

Damn, I was gonna give you a pass, Quad. If the sentence is, as you say, "incomplete", then according to your rules, it is an invalid entry in the game because, if I'm not mistaken, your rules require complete sentences. Check if you want, but the sentence in question, by itself and with no relation to any previous sentence in the game, is incorrect. Some would say, however, that when the sentence is used in context with a previous sentence in the game, then it would be marginally correct(which is what I considered your entry once I realized that sentences in the game can relate to previous sentences contentwise)...with the emphasis on "correct". Put another way, the sentence was not truly correct written English. In essence, it amounts to writing the way we talk, which, by its nature, doesn't mirror correct written English. Well, gotta work on more TPS reports...back to the grind.
 
Stephen Bishop's light pop style garnered him a small amount of success as a solo artist in the late 1970s.
 
1970s light pop stations also played a lot of Elton John and Eric Carmen.

I might explain more later. There are some supermodel volleyball chicks we hired as temps for the TPS Reports during the TFWG PowerWorld Volleyball Tournament. They need to be shown around.
 
Elton John and Eric Carmen are two people I've never seen in a room or picture together, therefore they could be the same person.

(I think Quad and Ssummers are a couple of wanna-be lawyers. Their elaborate assessment regarding the merits of a particular post in question is almost as amusing as a Perry Mason rerun.)
 
The same person who is/was one of the top dj's in the US recorded Disco Duck.

(Travel Tip: I read today that some people consider the Spanish Steps in Rome a disappointing tourist attraction, which means they don't know how to use those steps. It is, for example, adjacent to the American Express office, and therefore, a comfortable place to sit and count your money. It is also, not a bad place to sit in the sun and people watch on the Piazza di Spagna. If that's not exciting enough for you, climb to the top of the steps to a church (there's a church every 50 feet in Rome but this one is the famous Trinità dei Monti.)
 


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