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Discussion Groups / English Usage / June 2009A bad reputation is better than getting totally forgotten?
Please correct me, if i am wrong! Thanks in advance, ferdl On Jun 29, 12:03 pm, "Ferdinand Moosgruber" <fe...@dachau-mail.de> wrote: > Please correct me, if i am wrong! > > Thanks in advance, > > ferdl Well it depends on the reputation. Or if you mean the English A good reputation is better than being totally forgotten. John Kane, Kingston ON Canada [A bad reputation is better than getting totally forgotten] > Please correct me, if i am wrong! That's fine in conversation or informal writing. In strictly formal English, I would prefer something like "It is better to have a bad reputation than to be entirely forgotten." Quoth "CDB" <bellemarec@sympatico.ca>, and I quote: >[A bad reputation is better than getting totally forgotten] > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >English, I would prefer something like "It is better to have a bad >reputation than to be entirely forgotten." It's reminiscent of the saying: "It's better to be disliked than not liked at all."  SignatureJames > It's reminiscent of the saying: > "It's better to be disliked than not liked at all." A little bit different, in my opinion. If you are not liked at all, so you are well known at least. greetings, ferdl near munich > Please correct me, if i am wrong! > > Thanks in advance, "I don't care what they say about me as long as they spell my name right." --Phineas T. Barnum SignatureThe comfort of the wealthy has always depended upon an abundant supply of the poor. --Voltaire > Please correct me, if i am wrong! Not so much incorrect as clumsy. Parallelism would help: "*Having* a bad reputation is better than *getting* totally forgotten." Better yet (because more nearly parallel): "*Having* a bad reputation is better than *being* totally forgotten." SignatureCordially, Eric Walker, Owlcroft House http://owlcroft.com/english/ >> Please correct me, if i am wrong! > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >"*Having* a bad reputation is better than *being* totally forgotten." Sort of like? "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar." SignatureIan |
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