<p>It’s totally about the EMOTIONS, surely you agree with that?</p>
<p>If she wanted more space she could have just picked up another piece of floral paper(it was never mentioned that she was running out of floral paper!).</p>
<p>but, she didn’t want just more room, she wanted more room to convey her EMOTIONS!
Writing on a bigger sheet of paper does not help her convey her emotions more easily.</p>
<p>[cramp</a> one`s style](<a href=“http://esl.about.com/library/glossary/bldef_261.htm]cramp”>Introducing Phrasal Verbs to ESL Students), END OF THIS, lol</p>
<p>Except the floral paper is small and bleeds through…
That’s why “skimpy” and “8x11” are mentioned</p>
<p>the grandmother throughout the passage, expressed very little right???</p>
<p>i love lordfarquaad, thanks, please continue my side of the debate, im bout to go</p>
<p>the passage only talks bout the grandmother’s lack of emotions, how do flowers convey a lack of emotion, if anything they would convey more emotions</p>
<p>You guys are missing the point. It’s not about the space, it’s about the EMOTION.</p>
<p>If she needed more SPACE, she could have just whipped out another sheet of floral paper.</p>
<p>She didn’t need more space. She needed something to show her EMOTION.</p>
<p>[Urban</a> Dictionary: cramping my style](<a href=“http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cramping%20my%20style]Urban”>Urban Dictionary: cramping my style)</p>
<p>“when somebody/something is just in the way of your stylistic expression of freshness; the individual is putting a damper on the mood”</p>
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<p>I never said they conveyed lack of emotion. They conveyed the WRONG emotion- which is even worse.</p>
<p>If you were writing a letter to someone, would you use pretty-floral paper? No. That’s not the emotion you want to convey. </p>
<p>SPACE is not an issue here. She had an unlimited supply of both floral and plain paper. SAT does stuff like this all the time. You have to look into the meaning of the passage. It’s about emotion, not space!</p>
<p>eh I’m going to. I think enough has been said.</p>
<p>I think your argument speaks for itself if you have to use urbandictionary as evidence.</p>
<p>Ugh, if you don’t like urban dictionary- use the link etennis posted:
I bet you’re one of those people who thinks Wikipedia is a bad source of info too.</p>
<p>[cramp</a> one`s style](<a href=“http://esl.about.com/library/glossary/bldef_261.htm]cramp”>Introducing Phrasal Verbs to ESL Students)</p>
<p>“limit someone; not let someone be free in their actions”</p>
<p>The floral pattern cramps her style, it doesnt let her be free of the emotion she wants to convey!! The question was seeing whether or not you had the reasoning to put the EMOTION as part of this concept. That’s what elevates this question from a level 1 difficulty to a level 4.</p>
<p>SPACE is not an issue! She has an unlimited supply of floral paper, but she wanted the plain paper to convey an emotion free from the emotions conveyed by the floral paper.</p>
<p>Why does everyone concentrate on the phrase “cramping my style”? The key word, imo, is “skimpy floral paper”. Look up the definition of skimpy and it’ll be clear that the answer is, she needed more space.</p>
<p>There was a consensus on this many many posts ago.</p>
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<p>Because, the <em>original question</em> asked for what cramped the girls style.</p>
<p>If it said “cramped the girls text”, then the answer would be space.</p>
<p>but it said “cramped the girls style”.</p>
<p>text is to space, as style is to emotion.</p>
<p>SPACE is not an issue here. I repeat, SPACE is not an issue here.</p>
<p>was the passage about the physicist playing 20 questions experimental?</p>
<p>@CH3COOH. Yes, that was experimental. </p>
<p>What is being counted?
Tribulations
Baseball Age
Grandmother Writing Letters
Pain </p>
<p>^^As for the debate about “cramping style,” she needed more space. You are overanalyzing.</p>
<p>In case anyone was wondering, I had an experimental on.</p>
<p>Add these to the list.
Alaska, Chloropyll, Ecotourism (Paired)</p>
<p>I dont think alaska or ecotourism was experiemntal?</p>
<p>Sorry, I meant to say add those to the list of the ones that counted. Sorry…</p>
<p>I’m going to jump into this debate about the “cramping my style” passage.</p>
<p>I think you are all overlooking that the fact that the passage was written in 1999 by an accomplished author. Who knows if “cramping my style” was even a popular idiom back then? Also, no where else in the passage does she talk so colloquially, so I find it hard to believe that she suddenly decides to use a statement of such ambiguous meaning unless she was actually using it literally. I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned this already, but I hope that you take this into consideration.</p>
<p>I argued that it was because she did not have enough space (along with the other “skimpy” vs. 8x11 paper argument, etc…)</p>
<p>How about the Broadcast question in the Tribulations passage? Is it displayed openly or distributed widely?</p>