Illogical Sentence of the Day
Courtesty of news.com.au (as of 8/22/06)
Excerpt of article: "Jolie flees Pitt to luxury hotel"
"The pillow-lipped Jolie is said to be buckling under the pressure of postnatal depression, the fact that her mother is battling a serious illness, and the relentless attention of being one half of Hollywood's golden couple.
Strikingly skinny, she has become trapped in the goldfish bowl.
Jolie is said by friends to be desperate to quit Hollywood for good to set up a nomadic existence in Africa -- all of which has put her distinctly at odds with Pitt, who wants to bring up their young family in California."
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Looking back at the source of the article I finally realized that "postnatal" must be the Australian version of "postpartum." For a while there, I was wondering why the sentence sounded slightly off. But no matter, on to the Illogical Sentence of the Day, which you can clearly see bolded and separted from the rest of the article.
Usually introductory clauses bear some relation to the rest of the sentence, be it casual, descriptive, etc.
For example, EX: "Typically gregarious, Margaret displayed a new armour of reserve after her pet rock was accidentally cemented into the fireplace."
In mathematical terms you could say, EX: "A -> B" or some sort of "A(b) = B*
So knowing that Angelina Jolie is now strikingly skinny should help us understand her golfish bowl imprisionment. Yet, it doesn't. Perhaps if the sentence if the introduction phrase had been modified in an appropriate manner, we could have reveled a logical, grammatically correct sentence like the ones I shall now show you.
Ex: Strikingly shrunken to the size of small goldfish and standing much too close to the fish flakes, she has become trapped in the goldfish bowl.
or
Ex: Strikingly skinny, she has fallen through a grate in the sidewalk, been washed into the sewer system, and set free in the ocean, where she will not become trapped in the (or any) goldfish bowl.
* I completely made up that second mathematical example. What is it that? A function of some sort? Whatever.
Excerpt of article: "Jolie flees Pitt to luxury hotel"
"The pillow-lipped Jolie is said to be buckling under the pressure of postnatal depression, the fact that her mother is battling a serious illness, and the relentless attention of being one half of Hollywood's golden couple.
Strikingly skinny, she has become trapped in the goldfish bowl.
Jolie is said by friends to be desperate to quit Hollywood for good to set up a nomadic existence in Africa -- all of which has put her distinctly at odds with Pitt, who wants to bring up their young family in California."
-----
Looking back at the source of the article I finally realized that "postnatal" must be the Australian version of "postpartum." For a while there, I was wondering why the sentence sounded slightly off. But no matter, on to the Illogical Sentence of the Day, which you can clearly see bolded and separted from the rest of the article.
Usually introductory clauses bear some relation to the rest of the sentence, be it casual, descriptive, etc.
For example, EX: "Typically gregarious, Margaret displayed a new armour of reserve after her pet rock was accidentally cemented into the fireplace."
In mathematical terms you could say, EX: "A -> B" or some sort of "A(b) = B*
So knowing that Angelina Jolie is now strikingly skinny should help us understand her golfish bowl imprisionment. Yet, it doesn't. Perhaps if the sentence if the introduction phrase had been modified in an appropriate manner, we could have reveled a logical, grammatically correct sentence like the ones I shall now show you.
Ex: Strikingly shrunken to the size of small goldfish and standing much too close to the fish flakes, she has become trapped in the goldfish bowl.
or
Ex: Strikingly skinny, she has fallen through a grate in the sidewalk, been washed into the sewer system, and set free in the ocean, where she will not become trapped in the (or any) goldfish bowl.
* I completely made up that second mathematical example. What is it that? A function of some sort? Whatever.
posted by etre_productif at 5:47 PM
1 Comments:
"* I completely made up that second mathematical example. What is it that? A function of some sort? Whatever."
That's pretty good,but I think a better way to handle A--->B, if by this you mean "A causes B," is to say f(a) = b, where a is an action and causes b, a being in the set A of all possible actions and b being a member of the set B which is all possible outcomes. f, then, gives you the relationship between the cause and effect. So, the pertinent question is, does f(strikingly skinny) = trapped in a goldfish bowl ? I think not, because being strikingly skinny, as you mention, would sort of imply being less trapped if anything, UNLESS one could get so strikingly fat as to either grow over the top or smash out of the goldfish bowl?
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