10, by the way, is higher

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1582820]

Comments

[makyo.livejournal.com]

I think you should be at least a bit excited. This one is a photograph of a stone hill-fort called Dùn Eochla, on Inishmore (the largest of the three Aran Islands, off the west coast of Ireland). Somewhere I have a photograph of my own, taken back in March 2001, from pretty much exactly the same spot. I was quite excited when I recognised it and realised I'd been there.

[innerbrat]

I just... feel so much more than other people.

[andrewducker]

I'm curious - how can you tell?

[innerbrat]

I can't. i was being facetious.

[andrewducker]

Aaaah. My humour filter clearly missed that.

[innerbrat]

happens to the best of us, dude.

[andrewducker]

And of course you're skewing my otherwise perfect stats! Darn you to heck! :->

[innerbrat]

Oh no, my stats were an honest reporting.

[andrewducker]

Now I'm even more confused!

Hyphenation

[skington.livejournal.com]

There's no reason why the hyphenation should be consistent.

The first answer is "Not at all excited. (That's all that's needed.) The photos have to be of somewhere. (As an unnecessary adjunct.)"

The second answer is "A bit excited (wouldn't we all be to some degree?) - it's always nice to see places you know (a separated but related phrase that belongs with the first one)".

All perfectly reasonable. But the thing that's driving me slightly spare now that I've noticed it is that the second phrase doesn't end with a full stop. That is what's making my eye twitch metaphorically.

[broin.livejournal.com]

How emotional? Dude. On a scale of one to aubergine, I'm fairly flan.

[andrewducker]

But what _kind_ of flan?

[broin.livejournal.com]

A SHARK flan.

[andrewducker]

Good Lord!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I didn't notice until you said anything, at which point I immediately noticed that you used a hyphen where you might have used an m-dash after "a bit excited" :)