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Sermons of Dean Swift
Just a quick note to say that I just spotted Sermons of Dean Swift, which seems to be all your work, and thought I'd just drop a quick note to say that it's a great article. Elegantly written and comprehensively referenced, I immediately assessed it as B-class, but I'm sure that it would fly through a good article assessment if you chose to submit it, and it is probably v close to featured article standard. Good work! --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:40, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
- "In these sermons, Swift attempted to impart tradition Church of Ireland values upon his listeners in a simplistic manner."? "Tradition Church of Ireland values?" Would one perhaps mean "traditional?" Would one perhaps know what these "traditional" values are? Can one perhaps be sure that they were intended to be "simplistic?" To be "simple," of course. To be "simplistic?" To intentionally deny their subtlety and to be reductive? That's quite a claim, and I wonder if "2" says so. Do try to be fair to the Dean, if at all possible. Never mind, I see that #2 is Temple Scott of 1903. Does the name Macaulay ring a bell? Geogre (talk) 19:55, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
- Unless you are saying that a few typos that came before others have come to the page to make sure that there weren't any is being unfair to Swift, then, well... But seeing as how you claimed that "because" can't be used to connect two independent clauses even though the dictionary clearly says that its a conjunction that does just those things and uses two independent clauses as an example... Ottava Rima (talk) 03:19, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
- Furthermore, the phrase is "simplistic manner", not "simplistic values", hence the use of "simplistic" as an adjective that modifies a noun. Ottava Rima (talk) 03:39, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
- "In these sermons, Swift attempted to impart tradition Church of Ireland values upon his listeners in a simplistic manner."? "Tradition Church of Ireland values?" Would one perhaps mean "traditional?" Would one perhaps know what these "traditional" values are? Can one perhaps be sure that they were intended to be "simplistic?" To be "simple," of course. To be "simplistic?" To intentionally deny their subtlety and to be reductive? That's quite a claim, and I wonder if "2" says so. Do try to be fair to the Dean, if at all possible. Never mind, I see that #2 is Temple Scott of 1903. Does the name Macaulay ring a bell? Geogre (talk) 19:55, 14 April 2008 (UTC)