[projectaon] Re: Mass Errata Listing
- From: Ingo Kloecker <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:03:33 +0100
On Thursday 11 February 2010, Benjamin I Krefetz wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Simon Osborne wrote:
> > Also, while we're on the subject, the above fix would also fix the
> > following:
> >
> > BOOK 25:
> > (er) The Story So Far: which comprise of -> which comprise OR
which
> > are comprised of
> > ["Rimoah informed you that Gazad Helkona is occupied by Xaol and
> > his cohorts, which comprise of Hammerland bandits and remnants of
> > the army of Darklord Chlanzor, the former ruler of this
> > city-fortress."]
>
> I'd say this is a different situation because, semantics aside,
> "which comprise of" is straight out grammatically incorrect. Also,
> in this case, either "which comprise" or "which are composed of"
> don't look awkward (at least to me), so I don't think we need to be
> going to the thesaurus here :)
"which are composed of" sounds weird to my (German) ears. I wouldn't use
"composed of" in combination with groups of people or animals. I'd only
use it for things. So, I vote for using "which comprise".
Regards,
Ingo
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