Board:   [DoveNet] Pro-Audio Discussion
Subject: Re: Linn LM-1 With A.M.S.
From:    calcmandan
Date:    Thu Sep 10, 2020 07:42

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-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ni>   Re: Re: Linn LM-1 With A.M.S.
 Ni>   By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Sat Sep 05 2020 09:37 pm

 TM>>> Has anyone ever used this drum machine before?

 Ga>> Before *what*?

 Ni>> Seriously?   It's fairly common to use "before" this way.  As in,
 Ni>> at any time in the past.

 Ga> I'd have to disagree in this particular example. The "Has anyone
 Ga> ever used" part of the sentence makes the "before" redundant and
 Ga> unnecessary.

 Ni> I've heard people say this all the time though..

While, Ga is right in saying it's redundant, our utilization of the English
language isn't perfect. As such, like Nightfox said, it's common parlance to
use
the word 'before' in this context. You could probably remove the redundancy by
removing the word 'ever.' If I were writing a paper to be graded in a college
class or a memo for work, it would read like this:

Has anyone used this drum machine?

My college comp professor would always beat the drum about removing excess
words
from sentences that don't carry extra meaning but are simply filler to meet a
word-count requirement.

This is a BBS echo and hardly an environment to be intensely nitpicky with
grammar. May as well criticize every thread if you're going to go there.

Daniel Traechin

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