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WileyCoyote7 t1_j69o414 wrote

Start it with “In the <year of birth>, <father’s name> was born. This made a lot of people very angry and was generally seen as having been a bad idea. We, his family and friends, more or less respectfully disagree…”

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cavillchallenger OP t1_j69py0p wrote

Bwhahahaha!

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willowhawk t1_j6ctk3e wrote

Middle part of the passage is wrong and, unsurprisingly, doesn’t read as well because of it.

It should be: “This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

If your Dad loved Douglas Adams it would be good to use the extract phrase seeing as that’s what your Dad loved, not some Redditors paraphrasing.

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cavillchallenger OP t1_j6dpj1e wrote

Any suggestions I've liked, I've been researching to make sure it's the correct wording. 😉

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willowhawk t1_j6dtx91 wrote

Good to hear. Douglas Adams is a fantastic writer, it’s painful seeing some Redditors add their own substandard version.

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OppositeofDeath t1_j6fbfzb wrote

The intent is what mattered in the comment, and he could still take that and correct it with the exact wording. The dude and his comment are still pretty great.

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lupadim t1_j6d264x wrote

That's not even the right quote.

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willowhawk t1_j6d2etv wrote

Trust a redditor to paraphrase an author for someone’s funeral and make it worse, and then be upvoted loads for it.

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