Comments on: These Are My Confessions #1: I Secretly Enjoyed…

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:10:46 +0000

@Kasper No assumption whatsoever, more curiosity as I’d never really thought about it before.

Though I did find it really weird with my entry form to Canada when I had to put my date of birth with the year first.

The British do seem to find bitching and moaning about this stuff a national pastime, especially when it comes to phrasing.

By: Kasper

Kasper — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:38:55 +0000

@Reed & Charlotte, gotta crawl to the cross and make a confession here, I just do what my spell-checker tells me to. I’ve always used “rumored” and have simply assumed that “rumoured” was a sort of misspelling. I guess it’s just the brit way of doing things, and not exactly a wrong way. My mistake!

But beyond that, why should someone from Denmark adopt the British way of spelling something as opposed to the American way? What’s the difference? Because England is located in Europe, we should use British English over American English? I don’t get that. Denmark has no ties to England what-so-ever.

By: DeedeeRio

DeedeeRio — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:22:24 +0000

HI from Australia (where we spell with the “u” as well)!

Ok, I didn’t think the movie was quite that bad either. And yes, I read the book and enjoyed it – it was probably the one of the best science fiction books I’ve ever read. It is simply a great story that takes over 1000 pages to play out and probably should not have been attempted as a movie at all, let alone by John (Stayin’ Alive anyone) Travolta!

As to its faithfulness to the book, it really wasn’t, they’ve just pulled out a bit here, a bit there, chucked it together, grabbed part of the ending, thrown that in too and hoped for the best. If you really want to know how the movie should have been then grab a copy and have a read, if you’re a Science Fiction fan you might actually enjoy it!

cheers
Dee

By: Somnium

Somnium — Fri, 21 May 2010 04:11:29 +0000

Why are people so obsessed over grammar? Why just not read and enjoy? Grammar nazis, why do you let it effect you? tee hee. http://www.xkcd./326/

By: Slix

Slix — Fri, 21 May 2010 02:17:55 +0000

I’d be curious to see how faithful this movie was to the source material. No one really talks much about that. This could be the greatest adaptation of a horrible book(s) ever, yet we pan the movie.

Any Junkies out there read “Battlefield Earth”? I’d love to hear some opinions about this.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Thu, 20 May 2010 22:58:59 +0000

@Kasper: You’re from Denmark and you spell rumoured without a ‘u’? When did Europeans start using American spelling?

By: Reed Farrington

Reed Farrington — Thu, 20 May 2010 22:34:20 +0000

@Kasper: Officially, Canadians have adopted the British style of spelling, so we write “rumoured.” Some Canadians have adopted the American way of spelling because most of the world has adopted the American way. Actually, I don’t even know which way Sean and Jay have adopted.

@Matt: I don’t think your spelling is bad. I’m assuming you use a spell-checker. It’s your use of punctuation that is the main problem. If you really want to improve your writing, then I suggest you consult some grammar books.

By: kyriacos

kyriacos — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:26:37 +0000

Matt I really like your oldschool style man..

Fuck Grammar..

Grammar is for pussies..

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 20 May 2010 20:45:40 +0000

Hmmm ok thanks for the tips, I’ll keep it in mind for my next article

By: Kasper F. Nielsen

Kasper F. Nielsen — Thu, 20 May 2010 20:20:13 +0000

Well, first off you overuse punctuations instead of using commas in a lot of your sentences. It’s not a big deal or anything, but it’s slightly annoying to read everything like as if it was a letter that was telegraphed in.

Like mentioned earlier, you also seem unsure about when to use “to” and “too”. I’m wondering if it’s just a mistake, or if you aren’t too sure when to use “its” and “it’s” either? In any case, “it’s” is “it is” pulled together and should only be used when saying “it is” are appropriate. It isn’t appropriate here; If it’s scores didn’t make things bad enough it also completely bombed at the box office making only 30 million when it was rumoured to have cost 75 million.

It’s also “rumored” and not “rumoured”. There’s more stuff, but never mind about that.

All in all, it’s nothing horrific or anything, my main problem lies with the overuse of punctuations instead of commas and the “to”/”too” issue. We can all make mistakes, I make a lot too, but those two things just annoyed me

By: Jonny Ashley

Jonny Ashley — Thu, 20 May 2010 20:04:14 +0000

Those costumes look really hilarious. I wouldn’t mind giving this movie a shot, at least for comedy’s sake.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:07:59 +0000

@ Kasper F. Nielsen Like I said I wrote this at 2am so I was exhausted, just for future reference though can you point out some of the spelling and grammar mistakes I missed just so I know for next time.