Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost

Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by morganvachon on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @06:57PM (#16227500)

It's no more difficult than Tolkien. Prose from that era was practically poetry.

Of course, I grew up reading a lot of books and short stories from that era, so maybe it's easier for my old brain, like riding a bicycle.

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Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by hashkb on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @07:31PM (#16227705)

Like reading a bicycle.

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Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by alkonaut on Thursday January 25, 2018 @04:15AM (#16229729)

That's what I should have responded when my fifth grade teacher always wrote "NEW SENTENCE!" in the margin, if you stacked that many sentence commas.

I should have said "it's practically poetry" :)

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Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by taneq on Thursday January 25, 2018 @06:39AM (#16230206)

Basically everything they teach you in school is ignored by successful authors at times, but you've got to know the rules before you can know when to break them.

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Re:Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In Th... by rsynnott on Thursday January 25, 2018 @07:58AM (#16230482)

I think this particular quote is _considerably_ more over-the-top than Tolkien, certainly.

Though I do like "crushing the frantic penguins".

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