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Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Sep 25th, 2006 at 05:43:43 PM EST
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It's the best I could do with the words you gave me ;-)

If I understood it I could do wonders with it by a rewrite.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Sep 25th, 2006 at 05:48:26 PM EST
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I'm in the same position. I just haven't been tortured enough to make me talk yet.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Sep 25th, 2006 at 05:49:52 PM EST
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This is presented as a declaration of fact, when it is a debatable, and far from generally accepted, proposition, as the various attempts by Member States to bring about the creation of "national champions" have demonstrated recently.
Here's another sentence that doesn't quite ring right.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Sep 25th, 2006 at 05:57:34 PM EST
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"If at first you don't succeed" divide up into shorter sentences.

I am not averse to tinkling out the commas myself in ET, as I am not allowed to do it in professional writing. But the above sentence is a comma too far; especially after 'accepted'

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Sep 25th, 2006 at 06:24:00 PM EST
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Yes, too many staccato clauses and too many commas. The question is where to cut to make two separate sentences.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Sep 25th, 2006 at 06:25:40 PM EST
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This is presented as a declaration of fact, when it is a debatable, and far from generally accepted, proposition. This was demonstrated recently in the form of various attempts by Member States to bring about the creation of "national champions".

BTW, check the comments at the writeboard.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Mon Sep 25th, 2006 at 06:26:20 PM EST
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when it is a debatable, and a far from generally accepted proposition.

You can't be me, I'm taken
by Sven Triloqvist on Mon Sep 25th, 2006 at 06:29:54 PM EST
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