Just so you know...
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cosmolinguistI did get 'regular sized man' from a real sentence in a real book, the book I am reading, which is called Are YOU Dave Gorman? (It's about a guy called Dave Gorman who makes a drunken bet with his roommate that there aren't 'loads' of other people called Dave Gorman, so he finds other people with that name in places like Scotland and France and goes to meet them and take their picture.) It's a good sentence, it goes, It looked like a regular lawnmower with a tiny man on it, but I've dealt with perspective before so I quickly realised it must be a giant lawnmower with a regular sized man on it.
But really, it's not a book to get all excited about, grammatically speaking, because they do silly things like randomly italicize words like 'Tesco' and 'Whopper' and 'Rhône.'
But really, it's not a book to get all excited about, grammatically speaking, because they do silly things like randomly italicize words like 'Tesco' and 'Whopper' and 'Rhône.'
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Date: 2004-07-22 04:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-22 05:40 am (UTC)Definetly amongst my favourite (and certainly one of the funniest) non-fictions I've read.
What part are you at now?
The Italian Job
Date: 2004-07-22 05:47 am (UTC)Might be a spoiler if you're not at least halfway through the chapter...
Date: 2004-07-22 05:50 am (UTC)Classic.
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Date: 2004-07-23 06:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-23 09:00 am (UTC)I'm still a fan of meeting Dave #1. "No, I don't believe I know anybody else named Dave Gorman"
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Date: 2004-07-25 09:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-25 09:51 am (UTC)