I used to study Esperanto by mail. Spanish is better.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
§ ita § - Jan 10, 2008 8:52:35 am PST #4670 of 28611
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2008 8:53:43 am PST #4671 of 28611
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Dude, I'm reading about Esperanto, and then I discovered Riism. It's like a language patch!! Now I want to see the one that turns all nouns into strippers.
Jesse - Jan 10, 2008 9:18:50 am PST #4672 of 28611
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I used to study Esperanto by mail.
OMG, I think I did too. Or, at least, I once mailed away for something about Esperanto.
§ ita § - Jan 10, 2008 9:31:20 am PST #4673 of 28611
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We had study sheets, and we'd do exercises, and then we'd mail them back in, and get new stuff. Such keeners.
Miracleman - Jan 10, 2008 9:34:05 am PST #4674 of 28611
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Now I want to see the one that turns all nouns into strippers.
"Funny...Joe never has a second noun at home..."
Dana - Jan 10, 2008 11:38:08 am PST #4675 of 28611
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2008 11:39:57 am PST #4676 of 28611
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
As a writer, a reader and a victim of plagiarism, I feel very strongly on this issue.
She does not appear to feel very strongly on THE SERIAL COMMA.
Dana - Jan 10, 2008 11:41:01 am PST #4677 of 28611
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
She's probably used to AP style, which eschews the serial comma.
Edit: Or possibly what I meant to say is that the article's in AP style. I don't know how they handle direct quotes from e-mail.
lisah - Jan 10, 2008 11:45:01 am PST #4678 of 28611
Punishingly Intricate
"When you write historical romances, you're not asked to do that," Edwards said, speaking from her home in Mattoon, Illinois.
god. Dumbass.
Volans - Jan 10, 2008 11:45:55 am PST #4679 of 28611
move out and draw fire
And coincidentally, I was just listening to an interview with William Gibson, in which he said "Now there's a metanovel hovering over my work, the idea that readers can, and will, go google everything in the book."
I suppose Cassie Edwards didn't think her reader base would google.