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04-16-2007, 01:50 AM
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Another fantabulous chapter! (it makes me annoyed that the chapter's finished and there aren't any more yet, so that must mean it's good eh? )

Oh, and I worked out what it was about that sentence that confused me.

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"While doing so isn’t necessary to ‘qualify’, most sligs who don’t usually struggle to get a job for the rest of their career - unless they prove themselves to be particularly talented in a particular field such as mechanics."
Changing the comma to a hyphen didn't really make much difference, but when you wrote it in the story you didn't put the comma after "qualify."
So now I see it was meant to be read like:
"While doing so isn't necessary to 'qualify,' most sligs who don't (do so) usually struggle to get a job for the rest of their career..."

Whereas before I was reading it like:
"While doing so isn't necessary to 'qualify' most sligs, who don't usually struggle to get a job for the rest of their career..."

If that makes sense. So yeah, it was just my reading that confuzzled it up.
So carry on; that's an order!
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