If Alda looks under the mar's tail, she should end up grossed out and a little confused. Not all critters are put together in quite the same way. Cats. Snakes. Birds. And (I have read) pigs.
You don't actually have to tell us what Alda sees there 
I'm actually a little afraid of your imagination here.
I'm doing inline reviews now and it looks like the algorithms for deciding what to capture in the highlighting operation have gone from perverse to outright scatalogical. It's almost impossible to capture the two words crossing the end of a text line (NOT paragraph break; that's an existing problem). The thing wants to NOT capture the last word on a line, and insists on capturing an extra word after the start of the line. Is the DOM thing that rebarbative?
Shame. Never mind that this isn't actually about TomB, Tolkien said that the chapters with TomB were some of the most important in the book.
Here's the verse: http://m.poemhunter.com/poem/troll-sat- … -of-stone/
Probably not. You're almost certainly reading with the best eye. The reason I have to force the switch for music is because I'm not well-practiced and music doesn''t yet look like language to my left eye.
The same thing may be happening with shlorthand. I'll have to pay attention to it to see.
Samwise's song ... also appears in =The Adventures of Tom Bombadil=.
Oh, come on! In this group, that should be as obscure as Aasgard.
Sigh. Another obscure reference missed. "Up came Tom with his big boots on./Said he to Troll, 'Pray, what is yon? ...'"
I don't think it would be a full 12 years, and even if the price was a loss in accuracy or range the ability to fire after the dominant muscles tired might be useful.
Amy, optometrists seem to think of mixed dominance in terms of near and far, but the far test is individual letters (geometric form) and the near test is a reading card (language). I can read simple music at singing speed (okay, I'm rusty) but only if I force a switch to my right eye and process it with the high-speed language part of my brain.
These fault lines are sharper in southpaws than in dexters, but southpaws have faster average reaction times, according to both MLB and the US Air Force. Back when it was the Army Air Force, they tested Babe Ruth and found that he had the fastest reactions they had yet tested.
As if I missed a clue. I go back and reread for content rather than placement. That is why I might seem bewildered.
Who knows, it might be a cleww! But at least one reader glided over something, and ran into the other side of it later.
I think I'll make those low rafters. I can spare an adjective for a poor old reader.
That's it! Thank you, Janet. I couldn't figure out how to frame a query without at least one of the words.
I don't know the story, but there is, I was told, a precise phrase, 'from ... to ...', where the start and end points are nonce words. I'm looking for that nonce word phrase.
Oh, archeologists can identify trained longbow archers by changes both in arm bones and in the spine, which takes on a permanent bend in the direction to which it is so long twisted and in which it is so long stressed.
If he can switch for the camera, he should be able to learn to switch for the bow. It used to be a standard technique when using a microscope.
... if any would be kind enough to help.
Somewhere in the Thurber canon there is a description 'from Xxx to Yyy', for someone gutted open from nethers to neck. Would one of you educated folk please give me the full expression here?
I find it hard to believe that fully a third of the population is left-eyed, given that SLR manufacturers have never made cameras designed for this segment. Especially before the advent of the (relatively) inexpensive motor drive, left-eye operation of an SLR was a very clumsy business.
You shoot according to you dominant eye. As most people (about 2/3 of the population) are right eyed, they would lean to shoot right handed. People who are lefted eyed would have to learn left handed which would be difficult if they were right handed.
I suspect that most left-eyed people are left-handed. I'm a southpaw and my eye dominance is mixed: right for reading, left for everything else. I suspect a lot of lefties have such mixed dominance, and that this contributes greatly to the poor handwriting southpaws are famous for. We have to learn twice, once with the left eye for the letterforms, and again with the right eye for writing from language.
(Since I started learning shorthand later in life, I was able to observe the process while learning to write all over again. See my book covers.)
Mmmm, now if this was the main forum, it would've been personal with a capital P! LOL
Well, to quote what I wrote on another thread, never argue with anything bigger than you can lift ...
To put it another way, I prefer repartee to rapiers. and double-entendre to daggers..
Oooh! You called him a backguard! I've got shivers up my spine.
Don't worry. Our disagreements on style aren't (I hope!) personal. It's not politics. Heck, even Wagner admitted, sorta, kinda, that he was influenced by Liszt.
I do wonder, though, whether I'm keeping your attention when you miss the part about Merran being five feet behind. Not so much the detail of the rafters and the eaves.
Hey, ever think of doing a thread just on what you've learned from the SCA?
I'm pretty sure I've done that with both Chrome and IE. Could you state in detail just what won't work?
You don't have to limit your comments ... but didn't you hit that one?
You're miffed because you said that I hadn't said Merran was falling behind, when I'd said it four sentences back ... or was it because I told you how low the roof was when Erevain entered, and you forgot when he cut a piece off the ham?
Google can find it. I'm not sure it's quite what you want.
Minor edits to Chapter 6, Dianen.
It is said that =The Minstrels Sing of an English King= is the dirtiest song in the English language. I can't actually judge that, not being well-studied in that area. But nearly the cleanest line in the thing is "G*d d*mn the dirty old b*st*rd king of England!"
Anyway, the description of the monarch's ... nether anatomy ... would no doubt inspire Kajo.
I would not cut. You've got a good story with good flow, and your prose is so spare that there's nothing to prune away. My choice would be to see if part of 18 could be moved back to 17, and then to join the bulk of 18 with 19. If that won't work, then let it be.
