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If anyone reading this has even a faint clue about good writing, what is wrong with this sentence?
Although primarily carrying passengers, a gypsum mine served by the railway is a source of freight traffic.
That this made it through the FAC process with this in place is nothing short of scandalous. That it appeared on the Main Page in this condition says nothing at all for our supposed quality control. Embarrassing. -- John ( talk) 18:37, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
This book looks interesting: Gorfein, David S. (2012-12-06). Resolving Semantic Ambiguity. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781461235965. Retrieved 16 October 2015. And this website provides some more examples. “I rode a black horse in red pajamas” is my favourite.-- John ( talk) 21:09, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
I agree that "Although primarily carrying passengers, a gypsum mine" is terribly substandard English. Thanks to whoever fixed it. Dicklyon ( talk) 23:11, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
Is the endpoint Tunbridge Wells? Or Tonbridge? Both appear in sources; the map shows the line going past Tunbridge Wells to Tonbridge, which is not otherwise mentioned in the article (oh, nevermind, somehow my search didn't find it but it's there).
This book and
this book it the Tonbridge–Hastings line (with en dash). And very few sources capitalize line, however they choose to refer to it. See
[1] and
[2]. And spellings of both places seem to vary in the vowel.
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If anyone reading this has even a faint clue about good writing, what is wrong with this sentence?
Although primarily carrying passengers, a gypsum mine served by the railway is a source of freight traffic.
That this made it through the FAC process with this in place is nothing short of scandalous. That it appeared on the Main Page in this condition says nothing at all for our supposed quality control. Embarrassing. -- John ( talk) 18:37, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
This book looks interesting: Gorfein, David S. (2012-12-06). Resolving Semantic Ambiguity. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9781461235965. Retrieved 16 October 2015. And this website provides some more examples. “I rode a black horse in red pajamas” is my favourite.-- John ( talk) 21:09, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
I agree that "Although primarily carrying passengers, a gypsum mine" is terribly substandard English. Thanks to whoever fixed it. Dicklyon ( talk) 23:11, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
Is the endpoint Tunbridge Wells? Or Tonbridge? Both appear in sources; the map shows the line going past Tunbridge Wells to Tonbridge, which is not otherwise mentioned in the article (oh, nevermind, somehow my search didn't find it but it's there).
This book and
this book it the Tonbridge–Hastings line (with en dash). And very few sources capitalize line, however they choose to refer to it. See
[1] and
[2]. And spellings of both places seem to vary in the vowel.
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23:11, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
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