On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Anthony Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam, > > I did read what you said and understood what you said (as well as your > grammar would permit). The problem is, despite what you intended to say, > your words say something different. You made mistakes, and screwed your > statement. Perhaps you could have a fine career as a Japlish to Engrish > instruction manual interpreter. > > You began your paragraph on the subject of Olympus 's 4/3 cameras thus, > "So Oly IS stuck with a small format sensor when the market is moving > seriously towards larger sensors. m43 will be a different case, in that > market the primary competition will be the small sensor 'bridge' P&S's, not > DSLR's and m43 will have serious IQ advantages, particularly at high ISO's." > > If you mean to change the subject, then you need to begin a new paragraph, > that's why we use paragraphs. Your statement, on the tail of a > grammatically fault-ridden sentence, was that " m43 will have serious IQ > advantages, particularly at high ISO's." You didn't clearly and correctly > say what m43 had the advantage over, but a new paragraph wasn't begun so it > follows that the subject of the paragraph must still have been Olympus 4/3. > Even though you made a passing reference to bridge cameras as market > competitors to m43, the faulty structure of that sentence made it a > self-contained statement and apparently not part of the ensuing comparison. > The meaning might swing either way, but it was ambiguous and the only way to > decipher it was to follow the grammar. That was wrong so it all went to > hell in a handbasket. BTW, as I write this, 'MS Word' is flagging your > sentence, demanding that I revise it. > > Now that you've revisited your writings your intended meaning is clear > (maybe). > > Don't blame me for the misunderstanding. You need to write better. > > Regards, Anthony > > P.S. Now you've done it, you've turned me into a Grammar Nazi. > P.P.S. Bugger, now I've invoked Godwin's Law >
Hmm, I said that m43 would have serious IQ advantages, right after stating that m43 would be competing against bridge P&S's. Pretty damned clear. My grammer isn't the problem, your ignoring the previous phrase in the sentence in question is. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
