Dill, you do realize that you're defending the use of a word by Charles, don't you?
1,252 2016-10-15 01:34:32
Re: FUCCCCCKKKKK!!!!!! (27 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Don't do that then!
1,253 2016-10-15 01:32:56
Re: Snuck vs Sneaked (186 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Is that 'live up to' or 'live down to'?
1,254 2016-10-15 01:30:33
Re: Burrito Rage (10 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
I suggest you, Dagnee, read Mark Twain's short story Political Economy. Rants are an old form of humor.
1,255 2016-10-15 00:34:09
Re: Snuck vs Sneaked (186 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
'Pussy' is mildly offensive. 'tw*t' is patently offensive. That's a term from US jurisprudence, BTW.
1,256 2016-10-15 00:18:37
Re: Snuck vs Sneaked (186 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Dill Carver wrote:
njc wrote:Does it enhance the discourse, or just make you feel better to say 'tw*t'? Does it make you feel better for saying it?
It's not that bad. A kind of watered down expletive, very much the British equivalent of the American slang use of the word pussy.
It's one more line crossed. How many are left? Shouldn't we leave a few uncrossed?
1,257 2016-10-14 23:43:44
Re: Snuck vs Sneaked (186 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Does it enhance the discourse, or just make you feel better to say 'tw*t'? Does it make you feel better for saying it?
1,258 2016-10-14 23:18:58
Re: Snuck vs Sneaked (186 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
I believe it's a vulgar term for clitoris and is considered obscene and indecent. Is a discussion of the word 'snuck' and those who use that word enhanced by obscenity?
1,259 2016-10-14 23:12:54
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Airport taxis are a classic ripoff. Maybe you could get a cheaper ride on a hotel 'limo' and rake a taxi from there?
1,260 2016-10-14 11:04:34
Re: Snuck vs Sneaked (186 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
... (3) evoking sensations... etc. is something a pretentious tw*t says.
This word is not appropriate here. Let's please not use it again ... and let's not point fingers or belabor the point.
1,261 2016-10-14 10:53:19
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Norm d'Plume wrote:
Elisheva, if it helps, I just spent a week in and out of the hospital, helping my mother who has two ulcers on her leg. Aside from the ER, there were multiple trips to the antibiotic clinic, and now, 2-3 months in and out of the wound clinic. Each in a different location. Things I did not know about the Alberta healthcare system. I don't know how they expect you to manage if you're sick and on your own.
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At least in the US they tend to cluster around the hospitals.
1,262 2016-10-14 03:36:52
Re: Snuck vs Sneaked (186 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Always dogpile the peacemaker!
1,263 2016-10-14 02:29:38
Re: Snuck vs Sneaked (186 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
I don't agree with all of Charles's conclusions, and he certainly has a way of being abrasive with them. But it is a mistake to regard someone you think mistaken as an imbecile or idiot. Disagree with Charles if you wish or must; I often do. But he has shown me that he can handle sophisticated ideas. I urge you to respect his gifts, even when you believe he misuses them.
We live in an age of what Berkeley Breathed (Bloom County) years ago labelled 'offensensitivity'. Indeed, offensensitivity is considered a virtue by those who trumpet microaggressions and attribute any disagreement to bias. This is a recipe for chain-reaction conflict.
There comes a time to say 'I disagree, but we're not going to convince each other,' to admit that no matter how wrong someone's opinions, that someone has a right to them. Anything else perpetuates and amplifies the conflict.
(To have the right to do a thing is not the same as being right in doing it, as Chesterton pointed out.)
The alternatives to civility in online forums are flamewar and contempt. I learned this back in the early 1980's, when usenet spread across the world, and offer that experience to you.
1,264 2016-10-14 00:18:52
Re: The Galaxy Tales - Dirk B. (1,217 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Except when you get your buddies to write it for you 
1,265 2016-10-14 00:16:39
Re: Snuck vs Sneaked (186 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Dill Carver wrote:
'latte' and 'mochacino' Arrrgh!! My pet hate is that all over the UK 'espresso' is routinely misspelled and mispronounced 'expresso'. I don't know why it bothers me so, but it never fails to enrage the bigot within me. A case of a principle masquerading as a principal could fuel an extremely bigoted attack by me against the perpetrator.
I pronounce it 'demi-tasse' (final 'e' silent).
Dill Carver wrote:
If Bell wants to take that tone with me and the Josey Wales, then bring it on. I'll have no one say that I snuck out.
In the spirit of reviews, may I suggest 'slunk out'?
1,266 2016-10-13 23:08:52
Re: FUCCCCCKKKKK!!!!!! (27 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
Keeping spares for your wiper blades is a good idea, too. The $3 ga station cheapies will dry out in the trunk, but the expensive blades won't.
1,267 2016-10-13 23:06:50
Re: Snuck vs Sneaked (186 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Well, if you insist on pulling the Bell chain, you're going to get gonged.
Let it drop already.
1,268 2016-10-13 23:04:38
Re: Burrito Rage (10 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Unroll, rotate 90 degrees, re-roll. Granted, you shouldn't have to do it, but the situation shouldn't be beyond recovery.
1,269 2016-10-13 23:02:15
Re: Snuck vs Sneaked (186 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Well, it may not be fully compatible with 'latte' and 'mochacino' (have I spelled that right?) but it works just fine with 'gimee'. And 'hoot and holler line' was telco slang for a phone that rang the other end as soon as you picked it up.
1,270 2016-10-13 22:57:01
Re: The Sorcerer's Progress (1,528 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
That's ... ghoulish.
1,271 2016-10-13 22:22:28
Re: Snuck vs Sneaked (186 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Well, that's not particularly regional. But when you talk about living down in the hollers where you have to pipe in the sunlight, then you're getting regional.
1,272 2016-10-13 20:01:39
Re: Snuck vs Sneaked (186 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
Dill Carver wrote:
njc wrote:These word 'belong' to different communities, but they have been borrowed. Moreover, their meanings differ. 'cuss' as a verb does not have the same meaning as the noun in "He's a sour old cuss."
Exactly. My point was (that from within my European perspective), the type of character who would say 'snuck' would be the type of character who would also use words and expressions like; hound dawg, afeared, cuss, high-falutin, mom, gal, nohow, holler, yeehaw etc.
I thought that the word 'cuss' in the USA is a substitute for the word, 'curse' used elsewhere. It is confusing on an international front, because 'cuss' in the more celtic parts of Scotland and Ireland is how 'kiss' is pronounced. In those places, "He's a sour old cuss." would translate to "He's an old sourpuss." He may, or may not be cursed.
A 'sour old cuss' is a bit more sour than a mere sourpuss.
As to 'holler', do you mean it as 'bellow' or as as regional pronunciation of 'hollow' (used in the geographic sense)? "His hollering filled the holler."
1,273 2016-10-13 18:41:26
Re: The Galaxy Tales - Dirk B. (1,217 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
I suggest moving 'with his half-brothers' after 'sat'.
1,274 2016-10-13 17:25:43
Re: The Galaxy Tales - Dirk B. (1,217 replies, posted in Fantasy/Magic & Sci-Fi)
In general I agree with the rule but you sometimes need scene-setting. The example I gave moves toward him and settles on him in the context around him--critical information that tells us why the character is important.
1,275 2016-10-13 16:22:35
Re: Imagine... (11 replies, posted in TheNextBigWriter Premium)
I'm not going to pretend I understood that.
