I'm watching Life after People

[Mr. Pedantic]

The most annoying thing about the show is the incessant dramatisation of even the most mundane things. Want to say snakes rise up? Can't say "the snake population grows". Oh no. You have to say "65 million years after the age of the dinosaurs, snakes, the eternal symbol of evil, once again STAGE A COMEBACK".

I mean, wtf?

The second most annoying thing is the stupid American habit of omitting random words. It's two hundred AND fifty years, people. Two hundred AND fifty.

Overall, it's a pretty cool show. Nice premise, decent special effects for 4 years ago. But for Christ's sake, this show would be 100 times better with David Attenborough instead of the idiot narrator it has now.

 

[feralkid]

Nope, it's two hundred fifty.

But they should have said "Sixty and Five" million years.

Yes, I'm joking about the latter, however regarding the former:

"Be aware that some grammar purists (particularly in America) state that and is only used when writing numbers to denote a decimal point.

In other words, if you wrote one hundred and one, they would take this to mean 100.1 and not 101.
Read more at http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/numbers_how_to_write_in_full.htm#H0FzCIPCyiyGOkGR.99"

How's that for pedantic?






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[Jeff7]

The most annoying thing about the show is the incessant dramatisation of even the most mundane things. Want to say snakes rise up? Can't say "the snake population grows". Oh no. You have to say "65 million years after the age of the dinosaurs, snakes, the eternal symbol of evil, once again STAGE A COMEBACK".

I mean, wtf?

The second most annoying thing is the stupid American habit of omitting random words. It's two hundred AND fifty years, people. Two hundred AND fifty.

Yeah...a comeback? They live on every continent except Antarctica, and are generally quite abundant.

Overall, it's a pretty cool show. Nice premise, decent special effects for 4 years ago. But for Christ's sake, this show would be 100 times better with David Attenborough instead of the idiot narrator it has now.

David Attenborough. :thumbsup:

I love the BBC documentaries with him narrating.

I also got the Planet Earth set with his voiceover. One thing I didn't notice in his version, present in the Sigourney Weaver-voiced US version, was what I thought to be branding. "blah blah planet Earth blah blah." Constantly.

US-produced nature documentaries also do the "dramatize everything." They'd take a dandelion's life and turn it into some terrifying life-or-death struggle against the terrible ravages of caterpillars, lawnmowers, and Roundup.

This program sponsored by Roundup® Ready-To-Use Extended Control Weed & Grass Killer Plus Weed Preventer II.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Yeah...a comeback? They live on every continent except Antarctica, and are generally quite abundant.


David Attenborough. :thumbsup:

I love the BBC documentaries with him narrating.

I also got the Planet Earth set with his voiceover. One thing I didn't notice in his version, present in the Sigourney Weaver-voiced US version, was what I thought to be branding. "blah blah planet Earth blah blah." Constantly.

US-produced nature documentaries also do the "dramatize everything." They'd take a dandelion's life and turn it into some terrifying life-or-death struggle against the terrible ravages of caterpillars, lawnmowers, and Roundup.

This program sponsored by Roundup® Ready-To-Use Extended Control Weed & Grass Killer Plus Weed Preventer II.

It's really weird. Is it some attention span fear, or do producers think people just aren't interested if it isn't turned into a soap opera?

Nope, it's two hundred fifty.

But they should have said "Sixty and Five" million years.

Yes, I'm joking about the latter, however regarding the former:

"Be aware that some grammar purists (particularly in America) state that and is only used when writing numbers to denote a decimal point.

In other words, if you wrote one hundred and one, they would take this to mean 100.1 and not 101.
Read more at http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/numbers_how_to_write_in_full.htm#H0FzCIPCyiyGOkGR.99"

How's that for pedantic?






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Well, the assumption for something like two hundred is that the two is a multiplicative modifier of the hundred. So going by this reasoning, two hundred fifty would be 10,000.

Also, FWIW I'd be fine with sixty and five.