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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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"I'm writing songs, scripts, and post's for a zine."
"I'm writing songs, scripts, and post's for a zine."
To ME this in infering that the writer is writing songs, sripts, and post's all for a particular magazine.
What the writer is trying to imply is that he writes songs, and scripts on his own time but he also writes post's for this particular magazine.
How should this be written to imply that? And if you could explain why it should be written a particular way to imply that.
Thank you for your help!
To ME this in infering that the writer is writing songs, sripts, and post's all for a particular magazine.
What the writer is trying to imply is that he writes songs, and scripts on his own time but he also writes post's for this particular magazine.
How should this be written to imply that? And if you could explain why it should be written a particular way to imply that.
Thank you for your help!
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org/wiki/Zine , according to wiki. With this definition (zine being a specific type of publication), the sentence is direct and makes perfect sense. There is no inference or interpretation necessary.
- org/wiki/Zine , according to wiki.
- With this definition (zine being a specific type of publication), the sentence is direct and makes perfect sense.
- There is no inference or interpretation necessary.
- Regards, A- s
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"I'm writing songs, scripts, and posts for a zine." (post's is incorrect)
Here is the definition of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine, according to wiki.
With this definition (zine being a specific type of publication), the sentence is direct
Here is the definition of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine, according to wiki.
With this definition (zine being a specific type of publication), the sentence is direct
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In that case. How should it be written if the writer was saying that he wrote all three things for the magazine? I'm just trying to tell the difference. Thanks.
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The writer said that he wrote all three things - A, B, and C - all of these for a zine. It is written correctly. The only way it could be much clearer is to name the specific publication and specific media.
I'm writing songs and uploading MP3 files, posting every week in the blog section, and composing text scripts for the on-line zine "The Idiosyncratic Mother Goose"
I'm writing songs and uploading MP3 files, posting every week in the blog section, and composing text scripts for the on-line zine "The Idiosyncratic Mother Goose"
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Yes, the original sentence says that the songs, scripts, and posts are all being written for the zine.
If you want to indicate that the zine posts are independent from the songs and scripts, you could simply change the order: "I'm writing posts for a zine, songs, and scripts."
If you want to indicate that the zine posts are independent from the songs and scripts, you could simply change the order: "I'm writing posts for a zine, songs, and scripts."
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You can also use "but" as the contrasting conjunction: "I'm writing my own songs and scripts, but writing posts for a zine."
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Thanks for the timely answers. Both of your inputs are much appriciated!
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