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Most stories could fit in more than one genre to some degree. Why not just consider it "Commercial Fiction" (broad category) and let any future agent/editor/publisher place it in another if they think it belongs elsewhere. Take care. Vern

That really clears it up, LOL. Argue with yourself; you just might win. Take care. Vern

Who said that? Really? Are you now denying you think language, to include written, is set in concrete? For some strange reason I doubt it, but if so, then case closed.

Just in case you wish to continue the concrete delusion and speaking of your straw-man argument - LOL, that's another good one - you've been shown how language has definitely changed over the past 5000 years since cuneiform is generally accepted as the first written language found to date and all the rest have evolved or changed from that (even going out of general use is change as is a whole new language); so now, you must wait 5000 years with no change to sustain your argument that language ( I think we're talking English, but pick any you wish) is set in concrete.

BTW, if you can find another language from any other place from the same time period which has not changed - good luck with that - I'll accept that and even give you a few millennia to boot in order to find the always and forever language as I'm not adverse to considering valid evidence within a broad framework.

Just in case you want to grasp at more straws, you might bake your straw into bricks as straw used to be used for added strength, but alas even that has changed over the years for most of the world though there are still some holdouts - far from the norm - as you might note to stay entrenched in your straw-man never changing world. Take care. Vern

Just dropped in to see if any cuneiform has been presented. I don't see any so I reckon the concretist doesn't know any. Can't say I'm surprised. I'll be back. Take care. Vern

To anyone who thinks language and writing are set in concrete, I challenge you to present your next argument in cuneiform and see exactly how many folks understand you. After all, if it's all set in concrete we should have no trouble reading how things were written 5000 years ago. But alas, language and writing has been evolving since the first intelligent grunt and the first cave drawing.

Even if one believed that rules are set in concrete, that still would not preclude them from changing since the hardest concrete still crumbles with use and abuse over time - and a jackhammer works wonders. Words change spelling and meaning over time. Rules adapt over time. There is an exception to every rule and with enough exceptional uses, the exception becomes the norm. But, hey, show me your cuneiform and let's go from there. Take care. Vern

Edited to add this excerpt on knowledge:
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Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years. Today things are not as simple as different types of knowledge have different rates of growth. For example, nanotechnology knowledge is doubling every two years and clinical knowledge every 18 months. But on average human knowledge is doubling every 13 months.  According to IBM, the build out of  the “internet of things” will lead to the doubling of knowledge every 12 hours.
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With this vast increase in human knowledge, does anyone think language has remained or will remain static?

"Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!"  Well, it's one word when Shirley and Laverne say it, lol. Or, you can just use the first one. Take care. Vern

I'm not saying a "broken" glass doesn't fit the story, just that the glass depicted isn't broken as seen and to me personally, it would fit even better with the title if it were actually broken where the observer could see it. Just an observation and personal view on my part and I may well be the only one who would see it that way on a store shelf. Good artwork regardless. Take care. Vern

lol, yeah, that was by design. Actually have omitted it on very rare occasions before - though I don't think on this new site - to enhance the image presented. Take care. Vern

00: Women and then 007

This is all there was:

I wouldn't say any of those things, but I might say:
A bottle of wine from the cooler and two glasses, please
An ice cold beer
A hot bowl of soup or a cold watermelon or just, Food, I'm hungry
A crowded room or the room is too crowded
The church puts on a good steeple chase
A door-bell or the door has/had an antique knocker

Take care. Vern