[ SECRET POST #2752 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2752 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Fargo]


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03.
[Orange is the New Black]


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04.
[Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton]


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05.
[DS9, Far Beyond the Stars]


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06.
[Starsky & Hutch]


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07.
[Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails]


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08.
[Captain America: The Winter Soldier]


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09.
[Galerians]


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10.
[Penny Dreadful]


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11.
[The Wolf Among us/Enslaved]


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12.
[Wes Craven's Scream franchise]


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13.
[One Piece]












Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 029 secrets from Secret Submission Post #393.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Do Americans really say "great *of* an actor"?

Where foes the of come from?

[(Anonymous)]

Random American anon - everyone I know usually says it with an of. I've heard it both ways though, and neither sounds wrong but it does sound a little awkward without it (unlike, say, "in hospital" which sounds very, very wrong without the the. That needs to be in *the* hospital).

[(Anonymous)]

I drop the "of" when talking about actors, but Southern speech tends to be different than most of the rest of the US.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you talking... about the grammar? Not OP, but I definitely do.

It wasn't that good of a movie.

It wasn't that great of a book.

etc.

[(Anonymous)]

I used to do this a lot in highschool. One day the English class teacher pulled me aside because I'd written a piece where the character *should of* done this thing or *could of* done this thing. Grammatically of course it should have been the contractions *should've* and *could've* but those never occurred to me because spoken aloud the *'ve* sounds just like the word *of*. Maybe this same confusion/lazy way of speaking has just transferred/evolved to be used in other circumstances.

[(Anonymous)]

Anon, that's a completely different mistake and your teacher was right to correct you. You are replacing 'have' with 'of.

"That good of an actor" isn't replacing any word with of, it's just inserting it.