analyse this sentence

 
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this is my new series of threads in which we will practice literary discernment

analyse this sentence:

Andrew made a noise like a flipping pancake, marmalade spinning in mobius strips, still, without a clear communication of intent, the idea remained... subliminal.


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this is my new series of threads in which we will practice literary discernment

analyse this sentence:

Andrew made a noise like a flipping pancake, marmalade spinning in mobius strips, still, without a clear communication of intent, the idea remained... subliminal.

I would change it to "Andrew made a noise like he was flipping a pancake, or marmalade spinning in mobius strips without clear intent, but the idea remained... subliminal."

the sentence is honestly really confusing when phrased the way it is


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Andrew sounds... special.


 
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The second comma was spliced in.


 
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I would change it to "Andrew made a noise like he was flipping a pancake, or marmalade spinning in mobius strips without clear intent, but the idea remained... subliminal."

the sentence is honestly really confusing when phrased the way it is
if you're an idiot

it's quite straightforward, and your revision is a grammatical mess


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I would change it to "Andrew made a noise like he was flipping a pancake, or marmalade spinning in mobius strips without clear intent, but the idea remained... subliminal."

the sentence is honestly really confusing when phrased the way it is
if you're an idiot

it's quite straightforward, and your revision is a grammatical mess

Well fuck you too bro


 
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good work, guys


 
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Andrew made a noise like a flipping pancake, with marmalade spinning in Möbius strips; still, without a clear communication of intent, the idea remained subliminal.
This is a more sensible revision.

- The word "with" is added for clarity's sake.
- The correct spelling of "Möbius" was applied.
- A semi-colon was added to purge the comma splice.
- The ellipsis was omitted.


 
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Andrew made a noise like a flipping pancake, with marmalade spinning in Möbius strips; still, without a clear communication of intent, the idea remained subliminal.
This is a more sensible revision.

- The word "with" is added for clarity's sake.
- The correct spelling of "Möbius" was applied.
- A semi-colon was added to purge the comma splice.
- The ellipsis was omitted.
I read so many comma splices in books and such that it hardly seems a standing rule, but this is a good revision.


 
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Andrew is a genius but lacks a way to express that to society


 
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Andrew made a noise like a flipping pancake, or marmalade spinning in mobius strips, still, without a clear communication of intent, the idea remained... subliminal.

i took it you were using two similes here but for gods sake the second one seemed weird as shit without clear indication that it too was one


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- The correct spelling of "Möbius" was applied.
on this topic, I was listening to the radio one day and heard that the Scandinavian heritage society in Minneapolis was getting all uppity about a statue dedicated to some Swede in the city didn't have all of those fancy casings and characters from other languages. to which a professor in linguistics (Hungarian, German, and Nordic languages) at the university responded with that if youre going to be writing something in english, use english characters, to try and splice languages together is ridiculous.


 
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Andrew made a noise like a flipping pancake, or marmalade spinning in mobius strips, still, without a clear communication of intent, the idea remained... subliminal.

i took it you were using two similes here but for gods sake the second one seemed weird as shit without clear indication that it too was one
no, it is how it is, but if that's your revision, that's cool


 
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Andrew needs to check his privilege


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Who is Andrew, and why should the audience care?