Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/July 20, 2016
Latest comment: 8 years ago by Dweller
- "Sesame Street's format combines Jim Henson's Muppets with animation and short films" OK, I'm a pedant, but the muppets don't appear in many/most of the animations and short films, as implied by "combine". It's more that short skits involving the muppets are combined with animations [which should be plural, btw] [or possibly "animated"] and short films. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 13:40, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
- "animations" is fine in AmEng, but "animation" is more common. Per AHD: "Images or special effects created through animation". Be back in a few minutes ... I want to check the BrEng dictionaries. I could change "combines" to "uses", but I'm not a fan of the word, I'll try to think of something else. - Dank (push to talk) 15:07, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
- "Sesame Street's format includes skits featuring Jim Henson's Muppets as well as animation and short films"? --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 15:27, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
- Done. - Dank (push to talk) 16:16, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
- "Sesame Street's format includes skits featuring Jim Henson's Muppets as well as animation and short films"? --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 15:27, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
- "animations" is fine in AmEng, but "animation" is more common. Per AHD: "Images or special effects created through animation". Be back in a few minutes ... I want to check the BrEng dictionaries. I could change "combines" to "uses", but I'm not a fan of the word, I'll try to think of something else. - Dank (push to talk) 15:07, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
- "it was the first television show" pedantically again, the subject is the format, not the show, so "it" is incorrect --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 13:41, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
- "When Anne's dog ran after the car, she called it back." Is that sentence hard to understand? Is it grammatically faulty, because the referent of "she" is the woman rather than the dog? - Dank (push to talk) 14:53, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
- Ignore me. I missed sentence two, which makes everything clear and leaves me looking foolish. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 15:19, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
- Well, I thought it was a useful question about possessive antecedents, but it's a question that I think is effectively answered in The Sense of Style on p. 218. - Dank (push to talk) 16:16, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
- Laughed out loud! Thanks for your responses here and elsewhere, as ever. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 16:32, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
- Well, I thought it was a useful question about possessive antecedents, but it's a question that I think is effectively answered in The Sense of Style on p. 218. - Dank (push to talk) 16:16, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
- Ignore me. I missed sentence two, which makes everything clear and leaves me looking foolish. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 15:19, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
- "When Anne's dog ran after the car, she called it back." Is that sentence hard to understand? Is it grammatically faulty, because the referent of "she" is the woman rather than the dog? - Dank (push to talk) 14:53, 4 July 2016 (UTC)