Board:   [DoveNet] Pro-Audio Discussion
Subject: Re: Linn LM-1 With A.M.S.
From:    Nightfox
Date:    Thu Sep 10, 2020 09:12

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  Re: Re: Linn LM-1 With A.M.S.
  By: calcmandan to Nightfox on Thu Sep 10 2020 06:42 am

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

 ca> Has anyone used this drum machine?

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

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

Yep.  Also, in the above example, I don't think it really even sounds bad to have "ever" or "before" in there.  I thinkit's still grammatically correct to have "ever" (as in "Has anyone ever used this drum machine?").  I'm not sure if having "before" at the end is grammatically correct, but I still think the meaning is fairly clear.  I don't think it's of much use to nitpick over that.

Nightfox

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