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    - Formal logic,
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    - Reading Sir Terry Pratchett & Brandon Sanderson novels,
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  1. THEY’RE REPLACING THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM!!!

     How dare they! It’s like saying LIGHT is obsolete!

     Pah! In favor of a grouping classification! Such a... a.. Dangling Gerund! (P.s: tell me what that is, plz...) Admittedly, its likely only this one branch out here but... the connotations perturb & pervert!

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      Duality

      Oh, they've been talking about doing that for decades. For whatever reason, it turns out that libraries don't generally seem to want to reshelve their entire stock of books over a system that offers arguable improvements at best. There are still a good few tens of thousands of libraries who still use Dewey, so I don't think it'll be dying out any time soon.

      As for dangling gerunds, they're a terrible grammatical error involving the misassociation of nouns with a gerund. For example, in the sentence "While drinking our coffee, the lions approached our camp", the word 'drinking' is a gerund, and is mistakenly positioned in the sentence in a way that makes it look like the lions are the ones drinking the coffee. The sentence should read something like "While drinking our coffee, we saw the lions approaching our camp", where the gerund 'drinking' is correctly assigned to the noun 'we'. It's a messy business that often trips up padawan authors.

      Also, I have another smol dragon for you:

      Tea Party by sandara

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