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May. 9th, 2003 03:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kbkI know I shouldn't be criticising professionals. But I'm sitting reading my way through scripts for Sports Night.
And there's this teeny bit of word choice which I don't like at all. And hey, I'm editing this for spoilers even though it's for the middle of the first season of a defunct show. So. Y'know.
REMINDER: THIS EPISODE WILL AIR WELL BEFORE
THE "___" EPISODE, IN WHICH male A, male B AND female C
HAVE ALL SLEPT TOGETHER IN VARIOUS COMBINATIONS.
The word "various" is my problem here, because all the combinations I'm seeing are AB, AC, BC, and ABC. Now, in my world, four doesn't really amount to various. But since this is the kind of show it is, the only valid pairings are AC and BC. Two possible combinations. Two is in no way denoted by various. Various, to me at least, has the same sort of connotations as several. Definitely more than two.
It was just that I looked at it and I immediately caught that the slash pairing was inherently wrong. So. Oops.
It's just that I'd been a little busy with the Aaron-Sorkin-worship and that jolted me out of it and into hysterical laughter.
And I'm just gonna go keep reading now.
And there's this teeny bit of word choice which I don't like at all. And hey, I'm editing this for spoilers even though it's for the middle of the first season of a defunct show. So. Y'know.
REMINDER: THIS EPISODE WILL AIR WELL BEFORE
THE "___" EPISODE, IN WHICH male A, male B AND female C
HAVE ALL SLEPT TOGETHER IN VARIOUS COMBINATIONS.
The word "various" is my problem here, because all the combinations I'm seeing are AB, AC, BC, and ABC. Now, in my world, four doesn't really amount to various. But since this is the kind of show it is, the only valid pairings are AC and BC. Two possible combinations. Two is in no way denoted by various. Various, to me at least, has the same sort of connotations as several. Definitely more than two.
It was just that I looked at it and I immediately caught that the slash pairing was inherently wrong. So. Oops.
It's just that I'd been a little busy with the Aaron-Sorkin-worship and that jolted me out of it and into hysterical laughter.
And I'm just gonna go keep reading now.
