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On June 3, 2009 at 14:45, OTAHD said...
Since when is "ain't" appropriate language to use in a publication?
Dude, I'm gonna tell ya now: we're edgy, not iggrant.
Take a look at this -- it's worse:
On June 3, 2009 at 14:26, cmckenney said...
When you’re connecting your receiver to two or four surround speakers, or maybe front LCR speakers, on the other side of the room depending on where your equipment rack is, it can be tough to conceal all of that wiring. Especially if you don’t have the luxury, or tools, to route everything inside walls or within a drop ceiling or down below to the basement and back up again.
"Especially" is used to connect two phrases. That paragraph, as written, should have been one sentence! He wrote a sentence that's great in a conversation but is horrible writing. Then he decided that he'd divide it into two parts because that would be easier to read. He thus created a long sentence fragment. It should have been:
When you’re connecting your receiver to two or four surround speakers, or maybe front LCR speakers, on the other side of the room depending on where your equipment rack is, it can be tough to conceal all of that wiring, especially if you don’t have the luxury, or tools, to route everything inside walls or within a drop ceiling or down below to the basement and back up again.
Even better, stop already with the long phrases and write readable sentences:
When you’re connecting your receiver, it can be tough to conceal all of that wiring. You may be connecting to two or four surround speakers, or maybe front LCR speakers. The speakers won't all be where your equipment rack is (duh), so you'll have to run wires. Concealment is especially difficult if you don’t have the luxury or tools to route everything inside walls or within a drop ceiling or down below to the basement and back up again.
I'd then question the sense of using the word "luxury." Then I'd point out that it's "the luxury of routing everything" but it's "the tools to route everything" and I'd ask him to drop the word "luxury" altogether.
But that's just me. He always seems sincere and seems to want to help. Copy editors apparently do not abound over there.
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