I was wondering if anyone knows someone who would be willing to help me translate some English words into Latin. I've tried an online forum but am getting inadequate results
, and professional translators are too expensive. I don't need a lot of help, although some of it is curse words used by my teenage characters.
Thanks
Dirk
Sol, if you could delete an orphan Review Reply (sent by Don Chambers) from my account, I would really appreciate it.
The Medieval Warming Period was a localized event. See the graphs here: http://www.skepticalscience.com/medieva … ediate.htm
Dirk,
Don't forget Canada's navy. It goes in and out of Bay of Fundi, catches a fish or two and rows back.
Canada's navy includes ice breakers (well, maybe just one) that allow you climate-polluting nature-destroying oil-guzzling world-dominating oligarchists to ... what was I talking about?
On that note, MIT released a study that talks about how much of the Middle East will become uninhabitable by humans by 2100. That'll make the Syrian refugees look like a gentle migration. Don't you just love the way we're ploughing full throttle toward extinction? Like Wile E. Coyote riding his ACME rocket into the side of a cliff. BAMM!
Hhm. Two guys comparing the length of something. What could that be about?
K, I think you meant cm. NJC, in your dreams.
I really should get back to writing...
Are you kidding, Amy? You can see Sarah Palin's house from the Yukon, flee from forest fires in Kelowna, go jogging in your shorts in January in Calgary, and freeze your testicals on Prince Edward Island , all on the same day. If you fly from one end of Canada to the other, you're practically 1/4 of the way around the world. Apologies to NJC for the rounding error.
Molson's Beer Commercial: Canada is the world's second largest land mass, the first nation in hockey, and the BEST part of North America! ... Thank you.
My patriotic spirit has been rekindled! En garde!
I'm allergic to dairy. 
Bottom line, can I eat my hotdog salad tonight or not?
Don't forget to also wear a white lab coat to the meeting with your publisher, Dr. Ess.
If one person in a million falls seriously ill after the vaccine, that does not mean the vaccine has a one-in-a-million risk. To find the actual risk, you must subtract from that one-in-a-million the risk of falling seriously ill without the vaccine, a risk that is surely at least one in a million. For true statistical accuracy you have to control for the likelihood that a person with a certain risk of illness will get the vaccine.
You're making my head hurt.
It's true that there are microgram doses of thiomersal, but that dose is far below the level known to be harmful.
Anyone old enough to remember thalidomide? Also thought to be harmless. Just sayin...
Crytezar!
(has almost all the same letters and you could follow LOTR and have his sneaky spy named "Crytemann")
What a great name. If no one else wants it, I can use it as the name of a future planet.
Charles has a point. There's a difference between deleting those words from narrative and from dialogue, which naturally includes them.
I write my narrative the way we would naturally tell a story. No words are banned, although I try to mix it up a little. Don't get me started on "stand up" and "sit down". I use them quite freely.
janet reid wrote:It pains me to admit this, but one of our Prime Ministers beat K to it in the ear wax inspiration category. Only difference is, he kills his ear wax by eating it. *ewwwww, can't believe I actually typed it* In any case, we seem to vote for winners, another one eats onions. Whole. With skin intact. I don't know which one is worse, please don't make me choose!
That really is gross. Ear wax is nasty-sauce bitter. I will give him bonus points for being bad to the bone.
Um, K, how do you know it's bitter? Just wondering...
JL Mo, have you tried submitting the erroneous review? Since we can do multiple reviews for any piece of work, it should disappear from your list when you submit. You can add a note at the top of the review telling the author to ignore it - that you're trying to clear a bug.
OCD 2.
I have a similar experience, but with movies & TV. My friend is an actor, so he's told me all about the process of making them. As a result, I now wonder about the making of something (e.g., counting extras, wondering if something is CGI), rather than becoming immersed in the story. One major exception is The West Wing. The characters and stories are so good, the only time I wonder about the making of that show is when I notice how long the camera stays on the actors as they walk/talk (usually quickly) inside the set without a cut. They walk through hallways, past cubicles, around corners, into rooms, out the other side, etc, passing any number of extras walking, talking on phones, making photocopies, chatting, delivering mail, etc., all of it perfectly timed.
Besides the added points for reading longer chapters, you also have to consider the quality of the reviews given versus received. I gladly read more from those authors whose reviews are the most helpful to me. I'll read two or three chapters of their work for each chapter of mine they read. It's not because they expect it, but great reviewers are in demand, and I want to hang onto mine. Usually, the best reviewers are also the best writers, so I learn from reading their work.
There is a discussion thread about this in Premium. The last update was Oct. 1. If you go to the forum, click on Show Your Posts, then on User Defined Search and enter the keywords "chapter length".
The search feature is a gem (there's even an advanced search), but it's too well hidden to be widely used.
njc, did the site seem sluggish while you were entering comments? Hammering the submit button when the site is taking too long to save the comments can cause the count to go way up. Double and triple-clicking is also very therapeutic. :-)
I just bought Lord of the Rings for Kindle. It's probably been two decades since I last read it. A chance to read it from the perspective of a writer.
I suggest contacting the editors listed in this thread (Janet, Laura, etc.) and see if they'll do a sample edit, as Vern suggested. If they don't, you'll have to decide whether to pay to try them out. I chose to pay two editors to edit my first few chapters and was happy with the result. I think I paid $50 for one of them to edit 10K words. The feedback, although encouraging, convinced me I had to start over. :-) I'm glad I tried them out. If you want to cast a wider net, do a few keyword searches online for editors. Also, post your request to Premium if you can. I'm not sure how many paying members are still a part of the Basic group and reading this thread.
In Calgary, the coldest winter in the past 25 years was -40 degrees. That doesn't account for how much colder it feels when there's high humidity. I was there over Christmas when that happened. I arrived with the remnants of the flu, shoveled two foot deep snow for my mother, and caught a cold. By then, I was no longer used to cold weather, so it felt even worse. Haven't been back for Christmas since then. Calgary in spring is much better.
I grew up in Calgary, so I lived there until I moved to Ottawa for work. It was August and hot as hell. The day after I got to Ottawa, I heard on the radio that Calgary had been hit with a freak snowstorm. :-)
However, Calgary can also be the hot spot in Canada in winter, with people jogging in shorts, while the maritime provinces are under three feet of snow.
I try to shoot for 10-12 double-spaced pages, which seems to be equal to my own attention span when reading. :-) Here on the site that's around 1.5 to 2.0 points for the reviewer. I dislike reading/reviewing very long chapters because I usually can't do it all in one sitting. Life intrudes.
I protest! The writing elite live in NJ. I even have my own copy of Writing Fiction for Dummies. I can already feel the royalties rolling in.
