User talk:RecycledPixels

Four Award for Paradise Airlines Flight 901A
Thank you today for the article, "about an airline flight from Oakland to South Lake Tahoe that never reached its destination. The article describes the flight, the aircraft, and the aftermath of the investigations that were launched when the aircraft crashed into a mountain"! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:37, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Precious
You are recipient no. 2917 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:03, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Parallelism and compounds
You reverted my edit to Paradise Airlines Flight 901A to read: "That crew said that they had encountered icing conditions at 12000 ft, snow showers over Lake Tahoe, and that clouds had obscured the tops of mountains in the vicinity." That sentence contains a misuse of parallelism, arising from a compound object within a compound object. The crew "encountered" "icing" and "snow showers" and "reported" this encounter and also that "clouds had obscured the tops of mountains". The three objects are thus not all equal (parallel). Displayed hierarchically, you get:

"That crew said
 * [1] that they had encountered
 * [a] icing conditions at 12000 ft,
 * [b] snow showers over Lake Tahoe,
 * [2] and that clouds had obscured the tops of mountains in the vicinity."

Because [a] and [b] are the only two parts of the compound object of "encountered", they should be connected by an "and". A second "and" is needed to connect [1] and [2], the two parts of the compound object of "said". The alternative would be to rewrite the sentence to read something like: "That crew said that they had encountered icing conditions at 12000 ft, that there were snow showers over Lake Tahoe, and that clouds had obscured the tops of mountains in the vicinity."

Compound-compounds and the related parallelism are among the hardest things to learn about English. My students got 'em wrong all the time. Minturn (talk) 17:06, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Good suggestion. I have changed it to the wording you suggested.  RecycledPixels (talk) 18:06, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
 * A victory for the English language! Well done. Minturn (talk) 20:12, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

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