Not just the great ones
So, my father ordered a set of DVDs about rail journeys, and in the box was a free DVD - "America's Greatest Eighteen" (or something like that, I've lost my notes and am back at home). We watched a bit of it; it was a television program from The Fine Arts Channel (? never heard of it) that was essentially a commercial for eighteen resorts disguised as a virtual course built out of the greatest eighteen holes from public courses. This is by way of being background to this comment, by the course supervisor of Bethel Page on Long Island, referring to the Black Course:
It's a very difficult course, a very challenging course not only for the pros, the great golfers, but for the average golfer as well.Is it just me, or is there something deeply weird about his coordination in that sentence?
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At 12:01 AM, January 18, 2008
fev had this to say...
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At 5:54 AM, January 18, 2008
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->That's really cool. Something just falls out of the second part of the correlate, right? (Sorry, been teaching diagramming tonight.)
There's nothing grammatically wrong with it. It's semantically weird. He has selected the wrong coordinate conjunctions. The only way to understand his construction is to assume that what is difficult and challenging for the great golfers is not necessarily so - in fact, the implication is that it's rarely so - for the average one.
If he wanted "the great" to be first, then he should have used "for the great as well as for the average" - no "not only" and no "but".
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