GrammarBot wrote:
Usain for the win!! wrote:To the guy who keeps saying Gatlin will run 9.4X: Are we really supposed to believe that?
It's ironic there are such a plethora of people that think he will even run under 9.6X. That kind of outlandish prediction is just insubstantiated rumor and hearsay.
This begs the question of what Gatlin will really run come the end of the month. For all instensive purposes I allege he will run no faster than 9.8. You heard it here first!
OP, I'm awestruck by how badly you misused the English language, and by your arrogance while attempting (but failing) to use elevated language.
Failures:
1.) misuse of "misnomer" - A misnomer is an incorrect naming of something, or refers to the use of the incorrect name. Neither occurred in your sentence. The best word beginning with "mis-" that might apply to the 9.4x prediction would be "misguided." It might end up being a "mistake." However, it can never be a misnomer.
2.) misuse of "ironic" - There's nothing ironic about it at all. It may be difficult to believe, but that doesn't make it ironic.
3.) misuse of "plethora" - If you truly knew the word, you'd know it's singular, not plural, and, as a result, you wouldn't have used "are" 3 words prior.
4.) misuse of "prediction" - "Prediction" is a noun that can have discrete quantities, unlike, say, "water." So your sentence should read, "an outlandish prediction...."
5.) misuse of "outlandish" - "outlandish prediction" is intended to be a superlative construct, so qualifying it by saying, "That kind of" makes no sense. Instead, you simply mean to refer to an outlandish prediction such as that, which can be efficiently accomplished by writing, "Such an outlandish prediction...."
6.) misspelling of "unsubstantiated" - "insubstantiated" is not a word.
7.) misuse of "unsubstantiated" - A prediction is already unsubstantiated, because the action predicted hasn't happened yet. So "unsubstantiated" is redundant.
8.) misuse of "rumor" and "hearsay" - These words refer to talk of an action that has happened or may have happened, whereas a prediction refers to an action that hasn't happened, so temporally you're in the wrong to use them here.
* It should be evident by now that your entire "outlandish" sentence was bad. You should have simply said, "Such a prediction is outlandish."
9.) misuse of the phrase "begs the question" - Just because you now wonder what the result will be, doesn't mean that the question has been begged semantically. If anything, the fact that a prediction has been made has already answered a begged question that may have existed. I know what you were trying to do. You were trying to disprove the validity of the 9.4x prediction, and, by virtue of its impossibility, state that a vacuum now exists where the previous prediction had existed; so therefore we must now fill it, begging the re-asking of the question, "What will he run?" Unfortunately, you did such a poor job of challenging that prediction that no further question could be begged.
10.) misuse of "intensive" - The phrase you're looking for is, "intents and purposes."
11.) misuse of "intents and purposes" - Now that I've established that this is what you meant to write, I'll treat the fact that you shouldn't have written it anything of the sort. The phrase "intents and purposes" is used with real or semantic dependency or causality, in a situation where something is behaving as the true form of something else, without actually being that something else. Example: For all intents and purposes, Asbel Kiprop's 2015 Monaco run should be considered the world record because it's the fastest clean time. I'm not saying I necessarily agree with that sentence, but it's a sentence that one might see on this site, and it's proper use of "intents and purposes." So, in my example sentence, Kiprop's time behaves as the true world record time without officially being it, and determination of the world record depends on cleanliness. Unfortunately, nothing depends on your 9.8x prediction, nor does your prediction depend on anything, nor does it cause anything to happen. More importantly, your prediction is in no way behaving as the 'real' or 'true' prediction; it's simply another prediction.
12.) misuse of "allege" - Once again, you used a word that refers to actions that have happened or may have happened, but either way are in the past. However, since you're speaking of your prediction, you can't use allege here. You mean to say that you predict that he will run 9.8x