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From: News admin <news@sco.COM>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 20:23:23 GMT
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From: jondr@sco.COM (Karen Silkwood's car)
Subject: Re: Dreaming credits
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:23:16 GMT
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Mary.Elisabeth.Whittington@um.cc.umich.edu writes:
>"This album is made to be played loud"
>Could it be?  Could Our Beloved, Queen of Literary Allusions, have made
>a grammatical error, or am I wrong in thinking that it SHOULD be "this 
>album is made to be played loudly"?

"loud" can function as an adjective and an adverb.  so sayeth both of the
dictionaries i bothered to check.

so, yes, you are wrong.

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Jon Drukman (God's personal DJ)                 uunet!sco!jondr   jondr@sco.com
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