Polite On here again. It would be like me suggesting that you come on after a game and say " Well done to the lads - I think every one of you played wonderfully well. I am so proud, I cannot find any criticism in my heart for any of you. I even love Adam's hair".
Not if you really meant it. And you could paraphrase so it didn't sound quite so cringeworthy. We all know you're secretly envious of Lala's barnet anyway.
Those things are personal, and although I might do it differently, I'm no teacher and not in a position to correct anyone. Anything I say would necessarily come across as a criticism and I don't want to do that. Or give the other clowns on here something to bite on. All the FFS stuff on here is just a bit of banter, and easy to do, because correct spelling isn't personal. The only thing I will say is- perhaps it's down to the format you sent it in, but there don't seem to be any paragraphs. A solid A4 wall of type can be a bit daunting.
I've just remembered- I think you sent a .docx file and I'm too mean to give Microsoft my money for their bloated Office software. I converted it to .doc online, so something might have gone awry in the conversion.
He ought to know better. "Calms your skin" - Jesus. Next time my skin starts to panic I'll slap some on.
At least the shaving bit all makes sense.. Klopp being there makes sense (even though he's more hair than face) just don't see the logic in a small girl calling the LFC manager a loser, in an advert that is in partnership of Liverpool & Nivea
It's supposed to suggest that life is full of little irritations but the gunk can at least save you from the skin related ones. I think their desperation to shoe-horn the new darling Klopp into an advert for shaving products has led then to come up with something pretty bland. The fact that he obviously doesn't shave could have probably been put to good use and they could have come up with something wittier if they'd thought about it for a few minutes.
So we are all in agreement. It absolutely tanked as an ad and we won't be buying the ****. I've got two Vauxhall already due to Klopp... but no nivea face aches.
Have you ever read any Cormack Mcarthy? I think you'd find his style interesting. The flow of his writing is superb without the reliance of standard punctuation or over doing the punctuation. Below is a passage from Blood Meridian. The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning. The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others. http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/cormac-mccarthys-punctuation-rules.html Aside from his restrictive rationing of the colon, McCarthy declares his stylistic convictions with simplicity: “I believe in periods, in capitals, in the occasional comma, and that’s it.” It’s a discipline he learned first in a college English class, where he worked to simplify 18th century essays for a textbook the professor was editing. Early modern English is notoriously cluttered with confounding punctuation, which did not become standardized until comparatively recently. McCarthy, enamored of the prose style of the Neoclassical English writers but annoyed by their over-reliance on semicolons, remembers paring down an essay “by Swift or something” and hearing his professor say, “this is very good, this is exactly what’s needed.” Encouraged, he continued to simplify, working, he says to Oprah, “to make it easier, not to make it harder” to decipher his prose. For those who find McCarthy sometimes maddeningly opaque, this statement of intent may not help clarify things much. But lovers of his work may find renewed appreciation for his streamlined syntax.
