# It's Monday Somewhere - a pointless MMP

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-a-pointless-mmp/568745>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Tags:** mmp\
**Created:** [January 24, 2011, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-a-pointless-mmp/568745 "2011-01-24T05:18:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-a-pointless-mmp/568745/201 "2011-01-31T04:20:33Z")

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> [@anyrose](#):
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> Confession, maybe - but for Absolution, you have to be ashamed of the goings on that are being confessed. I seriously doubt either **swampy** or **db** (or you or **VBob** , for that matter) are ashamed of anything in the fun/party/“appreciation” category

I do feel bad that the squid needed therapy after that Easter weekend at the beach…😉

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-a-pointless-mmp/568745/202 "2011-01-31T08:05:57Z")

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> [@Lissla\_Lissar](#):
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> A good friend who turns out to have _terrible_ taste in books (and thinks LotR is boring and derivative) insisted we read the _Dragonlance_ books because they’re the best thing Evar!!! and I promised to read the first one although the cover made me die inside.

Ah, one of those who read LotR after DnD and who can’t understand that time is more-or-less linear 😛 You know, like my sister in law complaining that certain bits of Stagecoach “have been done to death!” and Dad grabbing the armchair’s arms until his knuckles went white, and explaining in a calm voice that “they have done it to death copying this movie. This movie did it first.”

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> Dear lord, it’s crap. It’s all _written in passive_!

That’s one case where translating something improves it immensely 🙂 The Spanish version is in the active voice, in impersonals, in… Spanish has a general allergy to the passive voice, you see, partly thanks to having many other ways to impersonalize and partly because of a general hate of repetition. They still ramble like nobody’s business and there are still several characters I wanted to bitchslap from here to eternity at the tender age of 14, but it’s much more readable. Maybe the French versions will also be an improvement?

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**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-monday-somewhere-a-pointless-mmp/568745/203 "2011-01-31T11:25:16Z")

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[New MMP over heah!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=595267)

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