<p>Anyone got our big cumulative list recently?</p>
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Haha, yes I realized. I guess I was hoping we had somehow reached a consensus of No Error. :p</p>
<p>purplepotato/ACTTester - Are both of you saying that, while “Best” was wrong, “Better” isn’t a… “better” option? I think I understand that (And I’m perfectly fine with that explanation, as long as “Best” was wrong :P)</p>
<p>There’s nothing wrong with “best-known.” The better/best rule doesn’t apply here. It’s being used as a descriptive term to compare with all her other works.</p>
<p>[best-known</a> - definition of best-known by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.](<a href=“Best-known]best-known - definition of best-known]best-known by The Free Dictionary”>Best-known - definition of best-known by The Free Dictionary)</p>
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<p>Again, I don’t know that we should assume that. You could be right, sure, it just doesn’t seem like the proper thing to do (to assume that we’re meant to consider her other popular achievements, if they exist, since they weren’t mentioned in the sentence).</p>
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<p>No, I’m not saying that at all. Again, the sentence </p>
<p>“Although most people know her for her voice-over work in Japanese cartoons, Kyoko Kishida also starred in the landmark 1964 film Woman in the Dunes” </p>
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<p>“Although best known for her work in Japanese voice-over cartoons, Kyoko Kishida also starred in the landmark [or some other adjective] 1964 film Woman in the Dunes.”,</p>
<p>right? If not, what’s the error?</p>
<p>Ooh, I think since cartoons/work is plural, it can stay best known, since there are many works. POSSIBLE REVELATION??!?!?!?</p>
<p>The problem here is that I personally chose no error but cannot fully discount iwantthis’s argument that only 2 works were stated. Many of my friends also chose no error but some of them were uncertain about the better/best thing.</p>
<p>@MaSaysImSpecial: I can’t remember if the sentence referenced a particular cartoon series or not.</p>
<p>I didn’t even realize the “better/best thing” until I got on CC…</p>
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<p>Nobody’s saying we should assume that her voice-over work is being compared to all her other works. However, what you seem to be saying is that we should assume it isn’t—otherwise there would be no reason to replace “best” with “better”.</p>
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<p>You could be right. It would be nice to have the exact sentence though (or the answers :p).</p>
<p>i myself put down no error because she did work in multiple voice overs in cartoonS so…i considered that to be more than one work therefore at least 3…?</p>
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<p>I do think we should assume that it is not comparing to/considering her other work, because it isn’t discussed in the sentence. </p>
<p>My argument, of course, is an assumption itself. I’m simply going by my thought that we judge sentence errors by the sentence’s content and structure, not by possible inferences/assumptions, though they may be logical.</p>
<p>Again, just offering my input. You guys could definitely be right (you probably are :p).</p>
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<p>“Although best known for her work in Japanese voice-over cartoons, Kyoko Kishida also starred in the landmark [or some other adjective] 1964 film Woman in the Dunes.”</p>
<p>Don’t try to overthink the sentence too much. In the first segment of the sentence, it explains that Kyoko is best-known for her work in Japanese cartoons rather than her work in other things. Better-known would also be grammatically correct, but it would change the meaning of the sentence. Since both are correct, you’d just have to leave it in the original form (best-known).</p>
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<a href=“Best-known[/url] - definition of best-known[/url] by The Free Dictionary”>Best-known</a></p> - definition of best-known</a></p> by The Free Dictionary;
<p>“Stevenson’s best-known work is probably `Treasure Island’”
It is implied that the work is being compared to other works, just like in Kyoko’s case. Kyoko is best known for her work in Japanese cartoons compared to her work in other areas.</p>
<p>@Susie, it doesn’t have to reference them, we just know she voiced many roles in Japanese Cartoons, so you can keep best…right?</p>
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<p>Valid point, but how exactly would “Better known” change the meaning?</p>
<p>OKAY! Here’s my 2 cents. That question was about in the middle of the spot the error section. That means it probably isn’t meant to be that tricky (?) and that we’re all just overthinking it. The point about the works seems valid as well, so maybe it really was no error.</p>
<p>BTW, it wouldn’t be wrong to assume if the sentence originally uses “best.” It’s just like saying, “I’m the best.” In the sentence, it’s implied that “I’m the best [among other people].”</p>
<p>For Kyoko, it would be “Although best-known for her work in Japanese cartoons [as compared to her work in other areas]…”</p>
<p>EDIT: Better-known alters it so that the it seems like you’re comparing her being best known for her work in Japanese cartoons to her being known for her starring in the movie.</p>
<p>The cartoons being plural doesn’t affect the fact that “better” should be used. It’s like saying oranges are better known than papayas, or that she was better known for her roles in these movies than for her roles in these other movies. It’s still essentially comparing two things: these movies and these other movies/other movie (singular).</p>
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<p>That’s how I interpreted the sentence. By saying she was “best known” for the cartoons although she had done the movie, I thought that the sentence was meant to show, essentially, that the cartoons were more well-known than the movie. I changed the sentence to reflect the comparison of those two singular works/performances in her life, using better (between) instead of best (among).</p>