It’s getting better! The following demonstrates some of the remaining gaps:
She knew she should feel sorry for him, but she couldn’t help feeling a bit of shaudenfreude (sp?) over his latest gaffe. Any serious math student who can’t recite pi beyond 3.14 is bound for some shaming, correct? That he could quote long passages from J.R.R. Tolkein, G.R.R. Martin, etc. doesn’t come close to making up for it. Knowing that he had been trying to impress her made it… awkward. Still she wished she hadn’t laughed about it when… None of that! She had nothing to be ashamed of. But should she talk to him about it? Perhaps not. After all “discretion is the better part of valor” were good words to live by. “What are you thinking?” he asked. Flustered, she could only mumble, “Oh, nothing.”
Your code gets these sentences:
- She knew she should feel sorry for him, but she couldn’t help feeling a bit of shaudenfreude (sp?) over his latest gaffe.
- Any serious math student who can’t recite pi beyond 3.14 is bound for some shaming, correct?
- That he could quote long passages from J.
- R.
- R. Tolkein, G.
- R.
- R. Martin, etc. doesn’t come close to making up for it.
- Knowing that he had been trying to impress her made it… awkward.
- Still she wished she hadn’t laughed about it when… None of that!
- She had nothing to be ashamed of.
- But should she talk to him about it?
- Perhaps not.
- After all “discretion is the better part of valor” were good words to live by.
- “What are you thinking?” he asked.
- Flustered, she could only mumble, "Oh, nothing.
- ".
Where I would expect:
- She knew she should feel sorry for him, but she couldn’t help feeling a bit of shaudenfreude (sp?) over his latest gaffe.
- Any serious math student who can’t recite pi beyond 3.14 is bound for some shaming, correct?
- That he could quote long passages from J.R.R. Tolkein, G.R.R. Martin, etc. doesn’t come close to making up for it.
- Knowing that he had been trying to impress her made it… awkward.
- Still she wished she hadn’t laughed about it when…
- None of that!
- She had nothing to be ashamed of.
- But should she talk to him about it?
- Perhaps not.
- After all “discretion is the better part of valor” were good words to live by.
- “What are you thinking?” he asked.
- Flustered, she could only mumble, “Oh, nothing.”