1. RedHeadedFark

    RedHeadedFark New Member

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    Need help

    Discussion in 'Word Mechanics' started by RedHeadedFark, Apr 15, 2015.

    Can someone please give me a technique in the line: ''I guess in this society, being male and an asshole makes you worthy of our time.''

    This is a line from the movie ''10 Things I Hate About You''
     
  2. Lewdog

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    I think it looks right. I keep wanting to put a comma after asshole, but it doesn't sound as good as it is now. I'm not sure what technique you want.
     
  3. RedHeadedFark

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    Any sort of language technique
     
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    I don't understand what you mean.
     
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    "I guess, in this society, being male and an asshole makes you worthy of our time."

    The first comma is needed (I think it's what's called an Oxford comma) because the sub-clause "in this society" could be omitted without spoiling the grammatical correctness of the sentence, although it would change the sense of it.
     
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    Not sure what you're looking for. The line is what it is. It isn't even a particularly strong piece of dialogue. Apart from some gender bitterness, it doesn't really show much about the speaker, the person spoken to/about, or the relationship between them. It has little depth.

    But every scrap of dialogue need not be a gem of insight and subtlety. Some just set the stage.
     
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    Are you asking us to describe what techniques it uses? Are you asking us to tell you the name of a technique that you can use to improve it? Are you asking if it's grammatically correct? What are you asking?
     
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    No. The oxford comma is used after the word "and" in a list of things.
    fig. 1.1
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