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Tenth Anniversary Deathmatch, first round, part 3
Yesterday's winners: Anne Rice (interrogating the text from the wrong perspective), My ponies hate you now, Strikethrough 2: Electric Boogaloo (in which Aja yells "Fire!"), and Crystalwank.

Time for the next round! Links to all the contestants can be found here for your reading pleasure.

Poll #593
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Chancery Stone
165 (59.8%)

Frosting/icing wank
111 (40.2%)

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Perhaps I have a special anus?
210 (78.4%)

Cousinjean
58 (21.6%)

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Please Lord Voldemort, join my ratings community
68 (24.2%)

Laptopgate
213 (75.8%)

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Msscribe
257 (90.8%)

Kittenmommy signs her posts
26 (9.2%)

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ETA: This poll is closed as of 3/12/13, 9:50 a.m. EST. If you vote after that, it will not count.

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	mmanurere 2013-03-11 07:59 pm UTC (link)
	So, for those of us who don't speak German, what's the error? A mismatch in grammatical gender, poor agreement between adjective and noun (or should there have been...I don't know what it's called in German where what would be a phrase in, say, English or French is written smooshed together)? Not that it will help me, it'll just bug me if I don't know. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eevee 2013-03-11 10:20 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I only took, like, 15 hours of German, but "Die" and "Schwarze" look feminine to me, whereas "Engel" is masculine. Then again, maybe "die" is intended as an order! ("It's German for The Bart, The".) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bienegold 2013-03-11 10:25 pm UTC (link)
	Engel is masculine, but the plural doesn't change, so...but then it should be schwarzen, iirc, so still wrong. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lied_ohne_worte 2013-03-11 11:12 pm UTC (link)
	It appears to be a singular angel, judging from the summary (but who knows) - so "schwarze" is correct, but "die" isn't. You're right otherwise; if it was a plural, it should be "schwarzen". (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lied_ohne_worte 2013-03-11 11:14 pm UTC (link)
	"Schwarze" is masculine; it's an adjective, and adjective endings can look illogical. But "die" doesn't fit with it. It should be "Der schwarze Engel". Heh, your suggestion makes a lot of sense. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	eevee 2013-03-12 02:09 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, good to know! I forgot there were exceptions with the accordance of adjectives. Thanks for the correction. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lied_ohne_worte 2013-03-11 11:11 pm UTC (link)
	It's the gender - "Engel" is masculine, and the adjective fits that, but the article used is the feminine one. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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