Talk:What Shall We Do Now?

Latest comment: 11 years ago by Ben Culture in topic Terrible sentence: How not to write

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:26, 13 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

Faces screaming edit

By the way in the film, the 'Screaming Head/Face' is incorporated into the music, you can hear a scream as you see it. The screaming face: 100px--Editor510 drop us a line, mate 09:58, 21 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

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Flying creature edit

I don't think the winged creature in the animated What Shall We Do Now? sequence is the same creature presented in the Goodbye Blue Sky animation.

The former was more along the lines of a pterodactyl as opposed to the latter's hawk-like form. 205.250.102.212 (talk) 03:15, 19 November 2008 (UTC)Reply

The flying creature that the female flower turns into at the end of the intro has a long neck, and is sleek and black, very unlike a hawk. --Ben Culture (talk) 12:20, 23 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

Terrible sentence: How not to write edit

Please use this as an example of how not to write:

"Latter day, it would seem that as far as the band themselves are concerned, the two tracks have become, for all intents and purposes, conflated into one."

I'm proud to say I replaced all that nonsense with "The two tracks are easily confused."

The awkward sentence is made of five segments, and one of those segments could have been segmented into two, with a fifth comma! How much of this sentence is unnecessary? (Almost all of it!)

The writer fills space with empty phrases ("it would seem"; the dreary "for all intents and purposes"; couldn't he have fit "more or less" in there, too?) and the purpose of these empty phrases is to build momentum so he can slide by with this "conflated into one" bullshit. Like I said, the two tracks are easily confused, and that's all there is to it. To say anything more specific would demand a source.

I don't expect anyone to volunteer ("I wrote it!") but please look at all that's wrong with it, and take it as an example. Even if you did write it. And please, never use homespun filler like "for all intents and purposes", "more or less", and go easy on "it would seem", because that's often used as cover for an unsourced claim that needs a citation. There's all sorts of ways of covering up bullshit, with empty phrases like "it is often considered", but all of them raise red flags with editors such as myself.

--Ben Culture (talk) 12:35, 23 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

What an ass-awful sentence! They shall surely experience a brown surprise very soon!