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Today I found myself discussing the classic beanbag chair. There was a time that I thought the coolest chair that could possibly be found was a beanbag chair, at one point I finally got a lime green one. It was the most uncomfortable and awkward thing to sit in, but I didn’t mind one bit. Now as an adult my neck hurts just looking at one, however, these Maxlounge chairs offer support and comfort in all the right ways as well as a bit of a techy twist.
These days a chair is not a chair until it has been wired with speakers. The chairs are filled with air, meaning, they are inflatable. I’m hesitant to trust any chair that needs blown up, however, since it does have a pair of high definition speakers I might be willing to overlook it.
The speakers can be hooked up to your MP3 player or iPod and even has a pocket to hold it in. It is made of durable PVC material and in the center features softer fabric for comfort. The chair is being sold for $60.
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One Response to “The Maxlounge Bossa the modern day inflatable chair”
Mike Boomshadow March 3, 2008
It’s an interesting piece of furniture. However, I hate to nitpick–okay, that’s not true; I love to nitpick–your writing mechanics could use a little work.
Examples:
The comma above should really be a semicolon, but the sentence also has other issues. Normally “when I thought” is a better conjunctive phrase to use than “that I thought” following the object “time.”
However, consider instead:
“At one time, I though the beanbag was the coolest chair one could possibly find; at one point I even got a lime green one myself.”
This corrects the conjunctive phrase and punctuation issue, and also discards the word “finally,” which doesn’t seem to have any connection, since there’s no discussion of how long it actually took you to make up your mind and get the lime green beanbag chair after deciding it was your favorite.
Next:
The rules on whether to use a colon, semicolon, or comma to tie together phrases and clauses are simple.
1) If the clause (or phrase) after the punctuation illustrates the point made by the one before the punctuation, use a colon. This includes the punctuation at the start of a numbered list;
2) If the clause after the punctuation could form a sentence on its own, use a semicolon. This includes items in a list.
3) If the clause is a simple list item, or if the clause could not stand on its own as a sentence, use a comma.
4) Exception to rule 3: if the first clause is conditional–that is, if it sets conditions for the clauses that follow, use a comma anyway.
Applying those rules to your sentence, and editing for flow, we get this:
“Now that I’ve reached adulthood, my neck hurts just looking at one; however, these Maxlounge chairs offer support and comfort in all the right ways, as well as a bit of a techy twist.”
Next:
“Needs blown up” is a broken verb phrase. It should be “…needs to be blown up… ,” or, for more effective phrasing, “…relies on air…”.
Here’s how I’d rewrite:
“I’m hesitant to trust any chair that relies on air for structure; however, since it does have a pair of high-definition speakers I might be willing to overlook it.”
I hope you find these suggestions more helpful than insulting.
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