[projectaon] Re: Editor's Companion Submission
- From: Thomas Wolmer <angantyr@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:17:51 +0100
2010/11/17 Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 17/11/2010 15:31, Thomas Wolmer wrote:
>> 2010/11/17 Simon Osborne<outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> On 16/11/2010 08:31, pamail.cgi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The following was sent from the Editor's Companion form
>>>> From: Jan Charvát<ch.honza@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Date: 08:31:38 on Tuesday, November 16, 2010
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> (??) 05sots 155: To the north, a road stretches across the causeway to
>>>> the
>>>> town of Chula, just visible on the horizon. -> To the east, a road
>>>> stretches across the causeway to the town of Chula, just visible on the
>>>> horizon. [jc: As your are looking from the south wall, you simply won't
>>>> be
>>>> able to look to the north. (Compare with the Map)]
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Surely, "To the south..." would be more appropriate, in view of the line
>>> of
>>> the road crossing the dry salt bed?
>>
>> No, Chula lies to the east, and the road to Chula crosses (in a
>> slightly twist manner) the northern part of Lake Inrahim on said
>> causeway.
>
> No, I don't think so. According to the map
> (<http://www.projectaon.org/en/xhtml/lw/05sots/maplarge.htm>) the roadway
> skirts the northern 'shore' of Lake Inrahim; the causeway seems to run from
> NNW to SSE across the eastern edge of the lake. (You can see a strip of the
> lake to the right of this roadway on the map.)
Yes, the causeway leads NNW-SSE, but it doesn't do so from the point
from which LW is gazing! The NNW start of the causeway lies straight
to the east from Barrakeesh, and the road as a whole is definitely to
the east/ESE.
About the causeway article - now that I look at the sentence again,
maybe it shall be read
To the xyz,
a road stretches across
the causeway to the town of Chula,
just visible on the horizon.
Then "the causeway" makes sense, but it still looks like bad English
to me, because Joe probably intends to say that it's Chula and not the
road (or the causeway) that's just visible on the horizon.
--
Thomas
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