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At last! Chapters 2-6 have been updated with all feedback so far. Gobs that was a lot of effort. No need to rereview. I'm too tired to look at them again (for now). I did, however, notice a bunch of non-applied reviews for chapter one. Grrr. That's today's task, and then I'm taking a vacation from writing to clean up my desk and clear a bunch of to-dos.

Minor change: The Shogun is once again named Kobayashi. I couldn't warm up to Shibrassi, since it's not a valid Japanese name. I'll find someplace else to slip Seabrass into the book. Any suggestions for where I could use him? Also, how would you render Don Chambers in Japanese?

In and out (unhomogenized) dairy.

Pere de France

Having gone another round with Google over the term governor, I'm going to use caps when it's a specfic governor (in place of his/her name) and there is no ambiguity (e.g., the Governor raced into the Command Center, followed by Apollo). It's not generally done, but it makes sense that an unelected planetary governor deserves a high title. Ajaw will also be capîtalized because it translates to King, even though it's only of a city-state. So, basically, I've capitalized every fricken title. I can die happy now. :-)

I see three Canadian ships. No such thing as canadian ships.

Are you saying not to capitalize because there's more than one of them? If my story had multiple crown princes, they'd still be capitalized, as long as they're not in the same room at the same time. My story only has two governors, who rarely appear together. I don't think I'm understanding you.

Thank you, Corra. I considered buying the print version but was thinking the online version probably allows searches on anything in the manual, although I doubt I need the regular updates. I'll check out the cost of the printed version. I have a very small office, so desk and shelf space are at a premium as well. :-)

Thanks again.
Dirk

You're not helping. Get in here and tell me what to do. (This is what you get for peaking in.) :-)

What's a league name? Wikipedia is one of the sources I used to decide between Imperial and imperial, although I've since seen some inconsistencies in their articles. If I use Imperial, that suggests to me that Imperator (like Emperor in Star Wars) should also be caps. If I use Imperator, then I probably should use Imperatrix and Imperial Heir. That leads to Royal Regent and Crown Prince, which leads to Princess. The regent rules an entire planet, but so do governors, but I've never seen governor capitalized. Etc. Let me know if I'm misunderstanding you. I prefer using caps for many of these, but it breaks down as you follow the chain of logic, above. President in caps is unique to the US. At least one of the style guides I referenced says not to capitalize it.

I adopted my own style, which is to lowercase informal use of titles and caps formal ones. So you get "Apollo is the imperial heir," but "Apollo is Heres Imperialis of the Imperium Romanum."

Um, ... huh?

Seabrass didn't recognize the name Shiburasu as his in spite of a number of hints in the chaper notes and chapter. K, brace yourself. I changed it to Shibrassu, figuring the Japanese language rules will relax over time. I'll probably change it again later to something less egregious.