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 Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 3:36 am
Reading small parts of his novels, I have found, with the help of a friend, more faulty grammar, bad use of language and misuse of words then any other book I ever read. I saw combinations of two words with 3 different mistakes and an amazing amount of stupid clichés which were written badly (in syntax mostly).
I am going to find a copy of his "Da Vinci Code" and write some of his worst mistakes later.
What do you think about my statements and about his awful books?
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:25 am
I actually quite like his books.
Can you write down some examples of when he butchers words?
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:58 am
I read the prologue and found 3 mistakes but this was my favorite:
"On his hands and knees, the curator froze, turning his head slowly."
Its not exactly a syntax mistake. more like really bad judgment to my opinion. the others were purly grammarical ones which are less interesting and funny.
I'll post my favorites from chapter one and two later.
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:16 am
I liked the book as well. The movie, too.
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:20 am
I had to delete the book.
Can anyone give more examples? (I'll try to get the book again)
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Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:29 pm
Liquid_Len "On his hands and knees, the curator froze, turning his head slowly." Isn't that like, implying that his body froze (i.e. he stopped running etc) but his head turned? I dunno, maybe it's not worded in the best possible way, but I would blame the editors for that more than the author. (JK Rowling is a good author but in my 1st edition copy of the 6th book I noticed at least 2 typos. It happens)
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 12:51 pm
Editors are to blame when there are one or two mistakes in a book not hundreds. I when through chapter one and two with a friend who found more then one mistake per page. That isn't insignificant.
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 9:24 am
Proudly_Jewish Liquid_Len "On his hands and knees, the curator froze, turning his head slowly." Isn't that like, implying that his body froze (i.e. he stopped running etc) but his head turned? I dunno, maybe it's not worded in the best possible way, but I would blame the editors for that more than the author. (JK Rowling is a good author but in my 1st edition copy of the 6th book I noticed at least 2 typos. It happens)
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Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:28 pm
I noticed some mistakes when I read The Da Vinci Code, but I don't remember any of them. It was still a spectacular book.
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Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:36 pm
Polyphonic Twilight Proudly_Jewish Liquid_Len "On his hands and knees, the curator froze, turning his head slowly." Isn't that like, implying that his body froze (i.e. he stopped running etc) but his head turned? I dunno, maybe it's not worded in the best possible way, but I would blame the editors for that more than the author. (JK Rowling is a good author but in my 1st edition copy of the 6th book I noticed at least 2 typos. It happens) Actually, yes. She's right. That isn't bad judgement. If he was shocked, he probably needed a second to collect himself before making another movement. confused Sounds realistic enough.
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:34 am
There's this thing I hate about Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code: at some point, he says english is the last good languange in Europe because all the others are derivated from latin, wich is the church's language.
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Two things I'd like to say about that:
1-Hey, what about hungarian/finnish and scandinavian languages? What about german? What about russian? What about greek? What about Irish ?
2-He should know that the church didn't create that language, they adopted it from the romans who were not christian but rather polytheist. Constantin just imposed that religion to the Empire to avoid wars.
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:40 pm
And.. Last time I checked... Wasn't English derived from Latin as well?
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 7:52 pm
JackSparrowAsksYaSavvy And.. Last time I checked... Wasn't English derived from Latin as well? English is derived from a Proto-Germanic language; the large influx of Latinate vocabulary came later.
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:15 am
If anything will be the bane of the English language, it is chatspeak. That will cause the language, most likely, to deteriorate into a language that has very little use of vowels. Maybe that'll be my new conlang... a prediction of what English wil look like after "The Great Vowel Drop."
I support the Save the Vowels movement! domokun
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Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:05 pm
Stupid book, Stupid movie. Don't care to read or see it. There's my opinion. And that many mistakes in one book? He clearly wasn't made to write.
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