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esl_prof

Joined: 30 Nov 2013 Posts: 2006 Location: peyi kote solèy frèt
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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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fluffyhamster wrote: |
Syntaxter: Crime writer Ethan Squawke moves into a creepy house to investigate the murders that were committed there, but becomes sidetracked by what to him appear to be grammatically anomalous sentences in various books left by the previous occupants, all the while stalked by an increasingly menacing pagan deity called Mr Chomksgie. |
Now, if you can just come up with a couple dozen scenarios where the solution to the mystery hinges on Detective Squawke's ability to extrapolate evidence from said grammar anomalies, you'll have an Emmy-winning prime time television show. |
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johnslat

Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 13859 Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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Needs more sex and violence - MUCH more.
Regards,
John |
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esl_prof

Joined: 30 Nov 2013 Posts: 2006 Location: peyi kote solèy frèt
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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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johnslat wrote: |
Needs more sex and violence - MUCH more.
Regards,
John |
Oh, yes, and that too! |
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fluffyhamster
Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 3292 Location: UK > China > Japan > UK again
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 7:30 am Post subject: |
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And there needs to be a recreational meth lab in the basement, and a rival ELT publishing firm shooting the place up occasionally. |
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Sashadroogie

Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 11061 Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 7:34 am Post subject: |
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And some tense moments with a present pervert... |
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fluffyhamster
Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 3292 Location: UK > China > Japan > UK again
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 11:06 am Post subject: |
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Was that just a crap joke, or a poor attempt at an insult, Sasha?
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Sashadroogie

Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 11061 Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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Too much fluff on the brain there, my furry friend. If you can parody the name Chomsky, why can't I work with present perfect tense? |
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fluffyhamster
Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 3292 Location: UK > China > Japan > UK again
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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You can do what you like Sasha, but there's clearly a difference between having some fun with Chomsky's name (he's hardly likely to be reading let alone replying on these forums), and conceivably trying your "best" to insult me (or was your reply aimed at somebody else, or nobody in particular, even though it comes hot on the heels of mine? ). Either way, answered or unanswered, your post was probably going to kill the mood if not the thread. I wonder if other people will call you out on your antics (but I wasn't holding my breath, hence my above reply).
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Sashadroogie

Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 11061 Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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There was nothing aimed at you. Not in the slightest. And Johnslat and I were happily enjoying the carefree mood prior to your contributions, and possibly will afterwards also. If you keep your fur on. |
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fluffyhamster
Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 3292 Location: UK > China > Japan > UK again
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 1:05 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry, but I'm disinclined to believe your protestations of innocence, Sasha (and this wouldn't be the first time you've tried to get a rise out me. Only the other day you were objecting to my use of the word 'instructions' in a context quite different to the one we had originally been "exchanging ideas" in). As for your carefee banter with Johnslat, that was a whole page and quite a number of intervening posts ago, so you weren't exactly replying still to him, were you?
Anyway, perhaps think more carefully about how your posts could possibly be construed next time would be my advice. That, or give people something funnier to play with (might be tough for a one-trick pony like you, I know, but please try harder!). Oh, look, and I even included a few brackets for you to go on about! How kind of me, eh? |
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Sashadroogie

Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 11061 Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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Have it your way then. |
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