Talk:Ioan Kalinderu

Tut, tut
"...and even incited Ranetti by riding his horse to his office."

Firstly, I think -- indeed, I hope -- that whoever wrote this gobbledygook meant "incensed."

Secondly, in ungobbledied English "riding" implies a horse; so that "riding to his office" would have sufficed.

Thirdly (and most importantly), it is hard to credit that this very phrase was featured (gasp!) as "recently improved!" Right here, witness why Crappypedia is losing ground; and will keep doing so, as long as this is its lousy "standard."

Perhaps 8/11 sounds good enough to the Wikipediamicians; but really, on basic grammar it is excruciatingly bad -- and then to be featured is entirely laughable.

What dreadful writing! Poor show; for shame!

217.115.8.18 (talk) 23:44, 13 September 2016 (UTC)


 * There is nothing "featured" about this article, and there is nothing particularly ungrammatical even about that phrase -- your objections are more of the lexical nature, which, as you should be aware, is not the same as grammar. As such, they demonstrate preference, not rules; they are also contrived. For one: "riding his horse" refers to the fact that he rode that particular horse, the one Ranetti was laughing at. "To incite" and "to incense" have roughly the same meaning, especially in this context. Now of course the article may in theory be "excruciatingly bad" and riddled with errors, but one would have to wonder why you're the only one who picked up on that, and produced as evidence an inconclusive sample. Dahn (talk) 14:49, 15 September 2016 (UTC)