[projectaon] Re: Editor's Companion Submission
- From: Timothy Pederick <pederick@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:42:24 +0800
On 15 February 2010 15:34, Sam Seaver <samseaver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:14 AM, <pamail.cgi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The following was sent from the Editor's Companion form
> > From: Timothy Pederick <pederick@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: 07:14:37 on Monday, February 15, 2010
> >
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> >
> > (er) 04wotw 282: his lean, haggard, and dangerous blue eyes -> his lean,
> haggard face and dangerous blue eyes [tp: unless someone can tell me how
> eyes can be lean and haggard?]
> >
>
> I'd accept haggard for eyes, but lean is pushing it in my opinion
>
Yeah, I was being a bit hyperbolic -- 'lean' or 'haggard' could be
poetically applied to eyes, just like 'dangerous' is -- but stringing all
three together read really wrongly to me. But 'face' fits both adjectives,
and the context, perfectly well. It looks even more like a simple missing
word when you drop the serial comma that PA added. :-)
--
Tim Pederick
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