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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!tribune.usask.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!cyber102.cyberspc.mb.ca!user From: avi@cyberspc.mb.ca (Avi) Newsgroups: alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc,alt.binaries.warez.mac,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.acorn.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.machten,comp.unix.pc-clone.16bit,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.user-friendly Subject: Re: FIVE GOOD REASONS WHY IBM'S ARE BETTER THAN MACS Date: 22 Apr 1996 01:27:16 GMT Organization: The University of Manitoba Lines: 30 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <avi-2104962030150001@cyber102.cyberspc.mb.ca> References: <Cyclone-0504961737500001@dial24.trip.net> <31664662.1081143@153.2.170.10> <dke-0604960729360001@adnline68.adnc.com> <31678d59.1170056@nntp.ix.netcom.com> <dhassell-0704961828280001@m055-446-a-d1.tc.tufts.edu> <316F3E2D.1A54@ucla.edu> <avi-1604961933450001@cyber122.cyberspc.mb.ca> <4l6d3f$8cf@yama.mcc.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: cyber102.cyberspc.mb.ca X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.1.4 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc:35099 alt.binaries.warez.mac:3401 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46677 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:124795 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:22752 comp.os.msdos.misc:53841 comp.os.os2.advocacy:195665 comp.sys.acorn.advocacy:8651 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:101231 comp.sys.next.advocacy:34968 comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy:3019 comp.unix.advocacy:19869 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17886 comp.unix.bsd.misc:803 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3264 comp.unix.machten:2308 comp.unix.pc-clo ne.16bit:710 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9267 comp.unix.shell:31902 comp.unix.solaris:66688 comp.unix.user-friendly:3641 In article <4l6d3f$8cf@yama.mcc.ac.uk>, geoffw@jumper.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff) wrote: > Avi (avi@cyberspc.mb.ca) wrote: > : > Marathon is a joke in gameplay and looks like a joke compared to Quake. Ever > : > heard of EF2000? You'd be drenching your shirt with saliva!!! > > : doubt. BTW, don't use descriptive nopuns more than once in the same > : sentence, it makes you look like a joke, you joke. > > Don't use descriptive nouns more than once in the same sentence, > -except for effect or emphasis-. And that is exactly what he was doing. > > G. How? There's no emphasis implied by using joke twice. He either forgot he had already used the word, or coludn't think of another one. A way of phrasing it foremphasis might have been: Marathon looks like a joke compared to Quake, its gameplay looks like a joke, it is a joke. -- Avi Selk Historical Landmark #9678023 Windows 95: Five years ago, corporate software giant, Microsoft, spent millions of dollars, and put a team of hundreds of highly specialized programmers on an extensive and highly ambitious project to find another name for the Apple Menu.