Grammar Auntie Strikes Again...
Friday, April 2nd, 2010 08:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
auntbijouYou know, I've been doing my share of snickering and moaning at the snippets of Epically Bad Fic that folks like shocolate and brumeux77 have been posting, but when I read bad fics, I usually hit the back button and do my best to forget it.
*adds "brain-bleach" to shopping list*
However, just now, I clicked on something... well, not interesting, but I thought it was worth a skim.
I should have known at "Shacklebot Kingsley was only too happy to oblige his best Auror..." that this was not going to go well. And no, that's not a typo on my part. Apparently, Kingsley is a Shacklebot. Does this mean he goes around, locking people into cuffs?
*moves on*
This is what made me stop and decide not to read any further.
"He was startled again, when out of nowhere came a gust of epigrammatic wind and his invisibility cloak, his most prized possession, had dropped onto the dewy grounds."
O_o
Epigrammatic wind???
"Epigrammatic - (adjective) Of the nature or in the style of an epigram; concise, clever, and amusing: an epigrammatic style."
And in case you are wondering, an epigram is a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way. It can also be a short poem, especially a satirical one, having a witty or ingenious ending.
So....... is this writer saying the wind is amusing and witty? or concise? perhaps satirical?
*flails*
Heavens, what are they teaching the children in school these days???
shocolate and brumeux77 have been posting, but when I read bad fics, I usually hit the back button and do my best to forget it.*adds "brain-bleach" to shopping list*
However, just now, I clicked on something... well, not interesting, but I thought it was worth a skim.
I should have known at "Shacklebot Kingsley was only too happy to oblige his best Auror..." that this was not going to go well. And no, that's not a typo on my part. Apparently, Kingsley is a Shacklebot. Does this mean he goes around, locking people into cuffs?
*moves on*
This is what made me stop and decide not to read any further.
"He was startled again, when out of nowhere came a gust of epigrammatic wind and his invisibility cloak, his most prized possession, had dropped onto the dewy grounds."
O_o
Epigrammatic wind???
"Epigrammatic - (adjective) Of the nature or in the style of an epigram; concise, clever, and amusing: an epigrammatic style."
And in case you are wondering, an epigram is a pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way. It can also be a short poem, especially a satirical one, having a witty or ingenious ending.
So....... is this writer saying the wind is amusing and witty? or concise? perhaps satirical?
*flails*
Heavens, what are they teaching the children in school these days???
