Book Burning: The Ancient Solitary Reign Part 1 (ft. Shammy) 

Here's an explanation I got from Google just now: _"The past perfect tense relates to an action that was completed at a time relative to another timed event. For example, 'By 2000 they had married.' The imperfect tense, refers to an action that continued for some time. An example might be 'I was living there before 2005.' "_ ("Differences Between Past & Imperfect Tense", Pen & the Pad) So *perfect past tense* would be "He had asked". "He asked" would be *simple past tense.* So I did make a mistake as to the specific categorisation of the examples I used, and that appears to be quite common given how many elements there are to verb tense in English. I called "He asked" perfect because, in the context of the scene, I interpreted the action as completed even though the verb was written in simple tense. So technically the "perfect" label doesn't apply even though it's describing a completed action. The nature of the action doesn't change the tense, so that was an error on my part. However, I believe that I was correct in the rule that _perfect_ refers to *completed actions,* while _imperfect_ refers to *incompleted actions.* I believe that it's still correct to call "He was asking" imperfect tense because I had simply omitted mentioning verb aspect because that wasn't the focus of what I was talking about. Any other confusion might be the consequence of me first being exposed to tense and aspect through Latin classes and confusing a couple of rules in Latin grammar with rules in English grammar.

I definitely agree with you on the difference of complete and incomplete actions and the corresponding tense. The part of your video was just a bit confusing for me as I‘m not a native english speaker and my grammar books explain it the way I put it above (I started thinking it had something to do with the different types of english). Thank you very much for your in-depth answer ^-^

@@Toonl97 Im so sorry English is a language you have to learn. But you seem to have an incredible grasp on it.

Trying to learn English is like trying to re-grow a penis

Shit mate school didn't prepare me for this

Whoa, it's you.

Holy hell It's him

EmperorTigerstar, commenting on a CCC video, about Shammy. Holy shit this has to be a sign of the apocalypses

Funny enough I believe both Shammy and EmperorTigerstar shouted this channel out.

Swordsmans Chagrin I did nat hit her, it's bullshit. I did not hit her. I naaaat. Oh hai, Mark

grumpychris - Can you hear me groaning? I kind of wish the author used it, just so CCC could tear it apart.

I think the pun would have been better than the word he actually used. And I HATE puns.

Fullfeathered owlchemist

It should have been used. It's a lot less bland than Owlology. Would have given it a bit of charm.

I think the author is making fun of the feminist movement.

In birds also, unlike mammals, the reproductive burden is distributed more equally between males and females

That does not matter. Females always get preferential treatment. In species where males are stronger females are kept somewhat in check but are still treated with special regard. In species where females are stronger, like spiders and grasshoppers, females outright kill the males while the males line up for it. If men were not smarter and stronger than women than at the best men would commonly be wounded from the abuse of women and at worst women would frequently kill men. We would probably have a society where, for example, married women would common marry another man and then kill their previous man at the wedding.

Yeah, that’s why I always assumed societies consisting of sentient birds of prey would be matriarchal.

@@dr.c2195 thats the most batshit insane thing ive read in a WHILE, i will not lie

I believe my comment what we in academia call: "sick b8"

CloudCuckooCountry alright there’s no need to be hurtful here. I just wanted to watch a bird talk about how not to write a book. I didn’t want that same bird to destroy my childhood.

Scatterbrain oh hi Marc.

I believe you mean Tommy Wisowl.

It's not true, it's bullshit!

I have failed

As a catholic, I can say that this book is the sort of thing we'd burn for Ash Wednesday Ashes

It’s good to know that this will be my legacy.

Yes

I read this in Tommy's voice

Tell never show, showings for the gays

CHANGE THE LINK TO /C/SHAMMYTV OH MY GOD I GIVE YOU MY VOICE AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME

RU-vid won't let me edit the comment, so sorry, I guess. It was nice knowing you.

Shammy Respect triple C you little owl.

I liked the laughter; it sounded very tortured, which certainly fits most of what you were laughing at.

The very same.

Strange things go on in the world of birds.

Just chalk that up to Shammy really wanting to die.

MrJamacianBob You don't have to wait long. It's having the finishing touches done right now.

Thank you very much!

Thank you very much. Hope you stick around.

It was written by an English teacher who graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in London and has worked as a Senior Language Consultant for European companies.

Good to know it's not just the American Education System that has failed spectacularly.

Wasn’t it written by an Italian guy ?

Pinkie Pie Hey, editor here. I won't lie to you, that was actually a total accident. It just happened while with a friend of mine, and it was so good I HAD to keep it in. Glad you had a laugh!

Oops

CloudCuckooCountry Still, I've got to hand it to you, pretty great video

I'm extremely sensitive to writing style, I'll admit, so a poorly conceived or executed writing style can severely hurt the experience of a novel for me. Admittedly, I didn't continue reading after book 1, so I'm fully willing to accept that it might get better in the subsequent books.

CloudCuckooCountry That's only fair. The writing style, I regret to say, doesn't change that much in the rest of the books. It's the lore and characters that save the series for me. P.S. Thanks for not biting my head off for asking a question like a lot of people would do in your position!

Characters are generally of middling priority to me in books. Lore is usually always low priority, unless it's somehow central to the experience. No worries. Thanks for asking.

CloudCuckooCountry No, thank you for having a civilized discussion! You're a good guy, don't forget that.

CloudCuckooCountry Okay, I'm sorry if I'm bothering you or anything, but do you know what would be a great video idea? A Book Burning of the first Guardians of Ga'hoole book. You could discuss how to make the dialogue and narration more natural. This will be my last comment, just wanted to share a thought.

I want to know what Bryan Reynolds was smoking.

There's always room for more good xenofiction, for sure

It’s no longer available due to it containing catastrophic errors. It’s also not up to the standards that I hold for this channel nowadays, so I have no desire to remake it or make it available again

Guardians of Ga'hoole was high art in comparison to this story