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[Kvikk Lunsj]

53 minutes ago, DAR said:

Oh and went with Predator 

Never seen it. 

[That One Girl]

1 hour ago, That One Guy said:

Watching When We First Met on netflix.  This has broken the record for most times I’ve cringed at a comedy and we’re only 30 minutes in

 

Finished.  Worst film of the year

[DAJK]

quick guys please, is it

 

''physical geography and its implications on early civilizations''

 

or

 

''physical geography and its implications upon early civilizations''

 

[aabattery]

23 minutes ago, DAJK said:

quick guys please, is it

 

''physical geography and its implications on early civilizations''

 

or

 

''physical geography and its implications upon early civilizations''

 

 

Top one reads better to me. That or change implications to effects.

[Cap]

25 minutes ago, DAJK said:

quick guys please, is it

 

''physical geography and its implications on early civilizations''

 

or

 

''physical geography and its implications upon early civilizations''

 

Summary: Using upon or on depends on the context. If you want or need to sound more formal (or, as Follett says, “bookish”) use upon. It also is acceptable to use upon when the sense in which it is used is “on the occasion of” or “when (something) occurs.” Garner, Modern American Usage 808.Apr 3, 2012 ( link) 

[Chewy]

Just never use upon in your writing, honestly. On will always be correct, upon won't

[aabattery]

Yeah, I generally go for the simplest word possible in cases like that especially when writing for geography and stuff. They don't want flashy words in my experience, they just want you to get to the point.

 

Bit of a stretch to call upon a flashy word after thinking about it for more than two seconds but it is kinda awkward in most cases. Best to just do what Chewy said.

 

[DAJK]

15 minutes ago, aabattery said:

 

Top one reads better to me. That or change implications to effects.

It crossed my mind but I had just used effects a few lines up. Went to go change that one to something else but I kept running in circles 

 

14 minutes ago, captainwondyful said:

Summary: Using upon or on depends on the context. If you want or need to sound more formal (or, as Follett says, “bookish”) use upon. It also is acceptable to use upon when the sense in which it is used is “on the occasion of” or “when (something) occurs.” Garner, Modern American Usage 808.Apr 3, 2012 ( link) 

Okay interesting, I went with on, but I also altered the sentence structure a bit so that it would read better

 

9 minutes ago, Chewy said:

Just never use upon in your writing, honestly. On will always be correct, upon won't

Didn't end up using it but good to know

[DAJK]

1 minute ago, aabattery said:

Yeah, I generally go for the simplest word possible in cases like that especially when writing for geography and stuff. They don't want flashy words in my experience, they just want you to get to the point.

 

Bit of a stretch to call upon a flashy word after thinking about it for more than two seconds but it is kinda awkward in most cases. Best to just do what Chewy said.

 

Exactly, I don't like my writing to read as too flashy, it's not like I'm writing some kind of prose for high school English. I try not to make all my sentences sound the same either so I try to add some variation but yea nothing too flashy

[aabattery]

Twilight Zone: The Movie is interesting. First two segments are pretty bad but I quite liked the last  two. We'll call it mixed.

[That One Girl]

6 minutes ago, aabattery said:

Twilight Zone: The Movie is interesting. First two segments are pretty bad but I quite liked the last  two. We'll call it mixed.

 

*insert Popstar gif here*

[Avatree]

27 minutes ago, aabattery said:

Twilight Zone: The Movie is interesting. First two segments are pretty bad but I quite liked the last  two. We'll call it mixed.

so you're saying Joe Dante is better than THE BERG?

 

[TwoMisfits]

8 hours ago, DAJK said:

quick guys please, is it

 

''physical geography and its implications on early civilizations''

 

or

 

''physical geography and its implications upon early civilizations''

 

Saw this too late, but I hope you fully switched out implications entirely - no idea what the rest of the sentence says, but "the conclusion drawn" or "the state of being involved" probably isn't quite the meaning you are going for...

 

"Influence on the development of" was probably what you were going for (if you couldn't use effects again)...

Edited April 5, 2018 by TwoMisfits

[baumer]

Salman Khan sentenced to 5 years in prison for poaching.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/05/asia/salman-khan-verdict-intl/index.html

[grim22]

22 minutes ago, baumer said:

Salman Khan sentenced to 5 years in prison for poaching.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/05/asia/salman-khan-verdict-intl/index.html

He deserved it for killing people instead of for poaching but well deserved. He will of course be out on bail tomorrow and appeal to a higher court.

[AJG]

53 minutes ago, baumer said:

Salman Khan sentenced to 5 years in prison for poaching.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/05/asia/salman-khan-verdict-intl/index.html

 

Didnt he kill an actual person a couple years ago? He goes down for poaching?

[manny1234]

1 hour ago, baumer said:

Salman Khan sentenced to 5 years in prison for poaching.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/05/asia/salman-khan-verdict-intl/index.html

Man that Fucking Bastard deserved jail time for what he did.

[Cmasterclay]

 

Deciding whether to keep growing for a couple weeks and go with this look. Would it be more huge douchebag or sexy fuckboi?

[Dementeleus]

Will Ferrell interviews Joaquin Phoenix. It’s very funny.  

 

https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/joaquin-phoenix-april-2018-cover-story-will-ferrell

[WrathOfHan]

I just had to work with about 60 five year olds as part of my class.

 

I am fine with never being a parent.