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Which guideline am I violating?
Hello,
I am trying to correct a supposed goof in the film Casablanca, which is actually not a goof. I tried to reclassify it as "incorrectly regarded", as well as to edit the text.
I tried it twice: in the second time, I strived to keep it simple and go to the point. Still, it was declined without any meaningful explanation.
Can you please explain which guideline am I violating, if any? (see below)
Contribution number: #250311-233107-016000
GoofEdit
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(at around 34 mins) When Rick breaks his rule of never drinking with customers, Renault states "Well, a precedent is being broken." Later on when Rick picks up the tab, he says "Another precedent gone". This grammatically incorrect in that precedents are not broken but "set."Character error
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When Rick breaks his rule of never drinking with customers, Renault states "Well, a precedent is being broken." Later on, when Rick pays for the bill, Renault says "Another precedent gone". Although these sentences may sound unnatural in English (which can be justified by Renault being a Frenchman), they are correct: those two precedents (patterns), set by Rick in the past, have not been followed by him on this occasion.Incorrectly regarded as goof
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I am retrying a (previously declined) contribution: I am now writing it in a simpler pattern, going to the point. If you decline this again, it would help that you point which guideline I am violating (because I do not find it). The original goof report claims that there is a grammar error, but we can find several webs that justify that there is actually no language mistake. See, for example: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/01/precedent.html
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