The board title is just wrong. 'The Road to Zanzibar' is fine and so is 'The Road to Wigan Pier'. 'The Long Road to Become an ISA Millionaire' would be better.
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Re: The Long Road To ISA Millionaires
It's not a board title, it's merely the subject of a topic that someone has posted.ReformedCharacter wrote:The board title is just wrong. 'The Road to Zanzibar' is fine and so is 'The Road to Wigan Pier'. 'The Long Road to Become an ISA Millionaire' would be better.
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Re: The Long Road To ISA Millionaires
'a topic which ...' sounds better.
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Re: The Long Road To ISA Millionaires
To whom?quelquod wrote:'a topic which ...' sounds better.
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Re: The Long Road To ISA Millionaires
I'm actually the poster of the thread in question and am a tad peeved!!ReformedCharacter wrote:The board title is just wrong. 'The Road to Zanzibar' is fine and so is 'The Road to Wigan Pier'. 'The Long Road to Become an ISA Millionaire' would be better.
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As mentioned above, it was a thread not a board name.
To break down the phrase, we would be 'ISA Millionaires' because there are two of us, my wife and I. Your suggestion therefore doesn't apply.
I don't see an issue with the title in general. 'ISA Millionaires' is a status, so can be worked to the same way 'happiness', 'wealth' or 'freedom' could be, without the requirement for a verb. Similar examples of this convention are not rare, the most obvious being the title of Mandela's autobiography 'Long Walk To Freedom'. This example clearly contains the verb 'walk', but would not break with convention if it were instead 'Long Path To Freedom' or 'Long Road To Freedom'. As an aside, 'Long Road To Ruin' is apparently a Foo Fighters song...
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Re: The Long Road To ISA Millionaires
'ISA Millionaires' is a status'will89 wrote:I'm actually the poster of the thread in question and am a tad peeved!!ReformedCharacter wrote:The board title is just wrong. 'The Road to Zanzibar' is fine and so is 'The Road to Wigan Pier'. 'The Long Road to Become an ISA Millionaire' would be better.![]()
I don't see an issue with the title in general. 'ISA Millionaires' is a status
No it isn't, it's the plural of 'ISA Millionaire'. Peeved or not, what you wrote is grammatically wrong whether in the singular or plural.
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