[projectaon] Re: Wolf's Bane Outstanding Issues
- From: Benjamin I Krefetz <krefetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:02:09 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Simon Osborne wrote:
(er) 30: what the dangers -> what dangers
[jb: correct as-is]
"...vow that you will never lose hope, no matter what the dangers you may
have yet to face."
It definitely seems to me that this should be altered.
Cf. "I will do it no matter what the cost."
Which is a not a sentence structure I can say is used much where I live. ;-)
Also, the phrase "...no matter what the cost." contains an implicit "may be":
I will do it no matter what the cost [may be [to myself]].
The sentence in this section doesn't leave it implicit: "You offer up a
prayer to them to watch over you during the coming trial of strength, and vow
that you will never lose hope, no matter what the dangers you may have yet to
face."
If the sentence had ended "...what the dangers." I could agree with you to an
extent, but by adding on the "...you may yet have to face.", it changes the
structure of the sentence so that "the" before "dangers" isn't just
unnecessary, it actually breaks the flow of the sentence. IMHO, of course.
I agree that "what the dangers" is awkward in this context. If Joe had
written "no matter what the dangers you have yet to face may be", that would
sound fine, at least on my side of the Pond, since there are definitely
going to be future dangers. But since from Joe's phrasing it's unclear
whether there actually will be any dangers, a definite article seems out of
place.
Ben
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