27-05-2006, 05:08 PM | #11 | ||
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Sorry for this, but I think it falls a little short of being a true humorist column - as it is, it just seems like anti-Afghanistan propaganda (which it probably is). I guess I wasn't really sure what your point in writing the article was, other than trying to to make Afghanistan look bad. I kept waiting for the bottom line, and never seemed to come to it (I'm not even really sure if it was supposed to be a humorist column)
You can take that or leave it, obviously - I used to be an editorial staff writer for my uni newspaper, but I realize that not everyone will get the point of everything you write. If you think it fulfilled its purpose, and your editor accepted it, I suppose that's good enough. |
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27-05-2006, 05:09 PM | #12 | ||
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Look it up Tai; Its a real sport. And its almost exactly at he described it, too.
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27-05-2006, 05:21 PM | #13 | ||
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Danny252 @ May 27 2006, 05:09 PM) [snapback]232579[/snapback]</div>
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After reading it, I was just kinda like, "Yeah? ...and?" I mean, it's weird, sure, but I think pie eating contests are weird. Meaning, I don't think I ever got to the "why" of the bashing. I could only assume that the "why" was just to write something "bad" about Afghanistan, since it wasn't clearly stated. |
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27-05-2006, 05:54 PM | #14 | ||
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Good point about the why. I disagree on the rest. The point of the article/column/whatever was to make fun of a sport widely acclaimed in a country. He didn't say all those people in Afghanistan are crazy, he just said all those people who are playing it were. After all, a nation doesn't make a sport its national sport, all the people playing it do. And by the way - who do you mean when you say Afghanistan? The government? The people? The terrorists? Ooops, I guess I went over the top with the last one. Let's start discussing wether or not there's terrorists in Afghanistan.
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27-05-2006, 06:59 PM | #15 | ||
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Grinder @ May 27 2006, 05:54 PM) [snapback]232590[/snapback]</div>
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The point of an editorial is to take a stance, and there isn't a clear one in this article - why don't you ask TGM why he wrote about an Afghanistan sport, and whether he had any intention of alluding to the government or terrorists? I was just pointing out that I'm not really sure if that was his purpose in writing it. |
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27-05-2006, 07:07 PM | #16 | ||
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27-05-2006, 09:16 PM | #18 | ||
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I do not now. Read again. The use of the verb 'think' indicates that the opinion stated is not necessarily true.
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27-05-2006, 09:37 PM | #19 | ||
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It's okay, I don't take it personally :P
And thanks... I've just been trying to say that my problem with it is that we don't know what his stance is, or what he's trying to get across. Because it's an editorial, we probably should. |
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27-05-2006, 10:10 PM | #20 | ||
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I miss the part where he said it's an editorial.
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