Six's English Thread

[BlitzCometITU]

wtf iz diz thred xd lel

I shall respond in the morning, assuming a correct answer has been given. (I haven't looked at the above answers yet)

Here's the correct answer.

 

[Zeno]

Hardworking and always trying her best are serving as adjectives modifying the painting, not the girl. As of the last time I checked, paintings do not have a gender, and thus this sentence would be incorrect.

 

[ScrewYouGumby2]

Hardworking and always trying her best are serving as adjectives modifying the painting, not the girl. As of the last time I checked, paintings do not have a gender, and thus this sentence would be incorrect.

Is your IQ 500?

 

[Zeno]

Is your IQ 500?

It's about 607.

 

[G33ke]

Hardworking and always trying her best are serving as adjectives modifying the painting, not the girl. As of the last time I checked, paintings do not have a gender, and thus this sentence would be incorrect.

Ah, you got it. I looked at that sentence for a while after I answered, (I'll be honest - was a quick guess to ensure I was first if it was right.) can't believe I didn't catch that. Nice catch!

 

[MrJaskirat]

Hardworking and always trying her best are serving as adjectives modifying the painting, not the girl. As of the last time I checked, paintings do not have a gender, and thus this sentence would be incorrect.

Meh. I would give half marks XD

He said the painting is hard working and always trying her best. Firstly, a painting doesn't work for anything, its the artist who does the work. Also, he called the painting a her. I do understand in some languages nouns can be masculine and feminine (French is one of them), but I don't think that rule applies to the english language. You gave an answer first, but it felt a bit lacking to me.

EDIT: Actually, reading over your response, I caught a mistake. your explanation " Hardworking and always trying her best are serving as adjectives modifying the painting, not the girl." shows you think that adjectives can only be used on people, not things, which we know is not true. I don't know if you just stuffed up your explanation or what but you got a problem in your answer.

 

[Tacoface1234]

Meh. I would give half marks XD

He said the painting is hard working and always trying her best. Firstly, a painting doesn't work for anything, its the artist who does the work. Also, he called the painting a her. I do understand in some languages nouns can be masculine and feminine (French is one of them), but I don't think that rule applies to the english language. You gave an answer first, but it felt a bit lacking to me.

I think his answer was plenty detailed, especially considering you have to answer fast to win.

 

[MrJaskirat]

I think his answer was plenty detailed, especially considering you have to answer fast to win.

I wrote an edit that shows an error in her answer.

 

[Tacoface1234]

I wrote an edit that shows an error in her answer.

I think he meant that the sentence used feminine adjectives to describe a non-feminine object, IE:

Hardworking and always trying her best are serving as adjectives modifying the painting, not the girl. As of the last time I checked, paintings do not have a gender, and thus this sentence would be incorrect.

 

[G33ke]

EDIT: Actually, reading over your response, I caught a mistake. your explanation " Hardworking and always trying her best are serving as adjectives modifying the painting, not the girl." shows you think that adjectives can only be used on people, not things, which we know is not true. I don't know if you just stuffed up your explanation or what but you got a problem in your answer.

No, his answer is perfectly acceptable. It's not like Six is giving points based on the proper usage of words in your response or anything, lol.

In Zeno's response, he follows up that sentence with the reasoning behind why it matters it's referring to the painting. He didn't conclude his response with the adjectives referring to the paintings, he specifically stated afterwards why they couldn't refer to the paintings in a logical sense.


We don't need to pick apart each others sentences now; to be fair Zeno shouldn't have distanced his sentences the way he did with periods because it's "incorrect", but he's still correct in theory. The sentences we should really be picking apart are the ones provided to us by Six, not each others. When we're answering quickly, we don't have time to proofread our stuff.

 

[MrJaskirat]

I think he meant that the sentence used feminine adjectives to describe a non-feminine object, IE:

I also wrote in my response to Zenos answer that i dont think there are feminine and masculine adjectives. even if there were, a feminine adjective could be used on a male since it is simply describing him in a feminine way. Same thing with a object.

i would love to be on teamspeak discussing this so much fun talking about english.

 

[Zeno]

I wrote an edit that shows an error in her answer.

No, I know adjectives can be applied to objects, but the diction used would make no sense in the context of the sentence, as those specific characteristics could not realistically be applied to a painting. Additionally, those adjectives were clearly intended to modify a subject with a female gender (indicated by the "her"), and, as a painting is considered gender neutral, those adjectives could not apply to it. Grammatically, there is nothing in the sentence those adjectives are able to modify in a sensible manner, and thus the sentence is incorrect.

Also, I'm a guy. lol