Is it bad to say, “All of them?”

Giles Hoover , June 26, 2003 10:11 PM (#)

Amanda, that’s pretty strong language for you!

Karen , June 27, 2003 9:38 AM (#)

You’re right. I should be more careful.

Books-turned-movies which are lousy seems less powerful though.

BTW, should it be which are lousy or that are lousy?

Amanda , June 27, 2003 10:50 AM (#)

Per the Columbia Guide to Standard English (which I love), it should be “Books-turned-movies that are lousy.”

Best advice: use that or which or nothing, depending on what your ear tells you. Then, when writing for certain publications, know that you may have to replace a good many whiches with thats, and perhaps a that or two with a which, to conform to the “rule” almost no one follows perfectly in other than Edited English and few can follow perfectly even there.

Rachel , June 27, 2003 11:23 AM (#)

Rachel! Thank you so much!

Amanda , June 27, 2003 12:01 PM (#)

Giles is correct… I don’t think any book I have read was ever upstaged by the movie. Just the opposite.
Is “lousy” still considered slang?

Cheryl , June 29, 2003 11:55 AM (#)

There are a few that can be considered just as good or better, I think.

lousy

adj 1: very bad; “a lousy play”; “it’s a stinking world” [syn: icky, crappy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky] 2: infested with lice; “burned their lousy clothes” 3: vile; despicable; “a dirty (or lousy) trick”; “a filthy traitor” [syn: dirty, filthy]

I don’t think it’s slang. This is from the wonderful Dictionary.com

Sckiye , March 22, 2005 12:26 PM (#)

There are a few that can be considered just as good or better, I think.

lousy

adj 1: very bad; “a lousy play”; “it’s a stinking world” [syn: icky, crappy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky] 2: infested with lice; “burned their lousy clothes” 3: vile; despicable; “a dirty (or lousy) trick”; “a filthy traitor” [syn: dirty, filthy]

I don’t think it’s slang. This is from the wonderful Dictionary.com

Sckiye , March 22, 2005 12:26 PM (#)

hey..
people..are u discussing which adaptations were lousy or the word lousy itself?…please refrain from changing the topic..and discuss whats neccesary.

withheld , August 5, 2005 3:47 AM (#)