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Tin-Chicken
09-24-2009, 08:00 PM
The Tesla Roadster is mentioned on page 352 of The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. I think this is the first mention in a novel ...
Fame!
Lisa.
Can you post an extract? I think that should be ok copyright wise?
Tin-Chicken
09-25-2009, 10:21 AM
Can you post an extract? I think that should be ok copyright wise?
Here's the extract:
The half dozen cars parked haphazardly in the driveway looked nothing like the police cars and emergency vehicles Langdon had imagined they were.
A Mercedes? . . . a Hummer? ...a Tesla Roadster?
Not terribly exciting!
Lisa.
efusco
09-25-2009, 11:20 AM
I'm usually not the grammar police, but this one bugged me a bit.
The word is excerpt.
Sorry.
Arnold Panz
09-25-2009, 11:27 AM
Here's the extract:
The half dozen cars parked haphazardly in the driveway looked nothing like the police cars and emergency vehicles Langdon had imagined they were.
A Mercedes? . . . a Hummer? ...a Tesla Roadster?
Not terribly exciting!
Lisa.
Well, it's nice that Brown (or his editor) thought to gratuitously add in the Roadster to a book that will get read by millions. I particularly like the juxtaposition of the Hummer and the Roadster. :cool:
raymond
09-25-2009, 12:17 PM
Here's the extract:
A Mercedes? . . . a Hummer? ...a Tesla Roadster?
That should have read: A Mercedes? . . . a Hummer? . . . a Tesla?
Now it's brand, brand, model. But I guess just "Tesla" wouldn't be understood by a larger audience.
Tin-Chicken
09-25-2009, 07:11 PM
I'm usually not the grammar police, but this one bugged me a bit.
The word is excerpt.
Sorry.
Ahem.
Extract Definition | Definition of Extract at Dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/extract)
10. a passage taken from a book, article, etc.; excerpt; quotation. \
Lisa, former editor, Tesla Motors Blog.:wink:
When I first saw the thread title of this topic, I half expected to see something like this:
http://pacejmiller.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/lost-symbol.jpg
efusco
09-25-2009, 07:31 PM
Ahem.
Extract Definition | Definition of Extract at Dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/extract)
10. a passage taken from a book, article, etc.; excerpt; quotation. \
Lisa, former editor, Tesla Motors Blog.:wink:
Fair enough...hadn't memorized down to the 10th definition of extract...:frown:
Frequency of usage may differ across the pond.