Gee Whillickers
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Kind of attacking them with their own rhetoric, I like it. They cry "religious freedom" and we can show them how that particular claim flies both ways.
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Nice to see our kids' role models are living up to expected standards...
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xkcd is one of my absolute favorite web comics. It is often very clever and usually makes
keen observations. Or maybe that's just the techno-geek side of me. But, yeah, I read it
quite regularly.
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I think Canadiens are all hockey players from Montreal, where they all speak some bastardized version of French, so they don't really count. Regular Canadians all speak funny and can't pronounce words rhyming with 'shout' for a damn. I don't know what version of English they're taught in schools there, or if they teach it at all. I think mainly the kids are taught hockey and a strange sort of football on an odd-sized field with too few downs to get a first down and some weird punting rules, and that states should be called providences or something like that. Oh, and how to spell words wrong, especially ones that only need an 'o' and they make it 'ou', as though they had a surfeit of vowels up their in the chilly North.
Just sayin'.
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Actually, this is pretty accurate....
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I don't know, however, whether readers would get tired of reading about baseball.
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Ok, here's what you do. Logan quits baseball in disgust after his dad sells his glove to make rent after being canned by the school board - little did he know that Coach Tasker was married to the Mayor's daughter. Then, Logan realizes that his true passion lies in another game. A better game. A truly wonderful game. A game that combines skill, speed, toughness, and emotion.
Hockey.
Since everyone here will see the wisdom in this, you should be able to get another two or three dozen chapters out of the story.
Looking forward to it...
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But although English grammar has a very large set of rules to follow, spelling seems to be without rules, at least in our times. I learned to spell it 'theatre' instead of 'theater.' Now I can accept that theatre is a place where they stage plays and a theater is where they show movies, but that is not what I originally learned.
The change was forced by American schools and the teachers who kept telling me I was wrong. I bent to the rules to achieve a better grade, but it felt wrong. I used odd words found in English speech for years, that would be British English, and I had an accent until my first years of high school. So I am not one to accept changes gracefully, but I often have to choose my words carefully.
Ah, yes. The wonderful differences between American spelling and British spelling, and the sometimes third version of Canadian spelling of words.
theatre/theater
centre/center
metre/meter
colour/color
behaviour/behavior
light/lite
doughnut/donut
and on and on....
I suppose it's just a matter of which audience something is intended for, in those cases.
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Is it just me? I've heard of and used 'You've got another thing coming' but not think. Is this a s typo inside a thread about typos? :-)
The way I used it is in the context, "Charlie, if you think we're gong to let you borrow the car tonight, then you have another think coming." Think makes sense in that context, not thing. But yes, thing has been used often and could be correct in the right context.
The other thing we all need to remember is that language is fluid and ever changing. What was correct hundreds of years ago (more orally, since written language then was extremely fluid) is now gibberish to all except linguists. Even a couple of decades is enough to drastically change the meaning of a word, or the accepted correct grammatical use of it. Take the two words, "a lot" which are, more and more frequently, used as one word, "alot." This has come to the point where it is accepted in certain circles as correct, and very likely will be considered widely correct everywhere within a hundred years.
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I concur. I couldn't have said it better.
I honestly don't know how Cole produces so many worthwhile and well written stories. At one point I thought he had a shed full of those rather ubiquitous typewriter tapping monkees, but after reading and [url=" I've changed my mind.
Now I've decided that Cole must be an acronym. C.O.L.E = Continual Output of Luscious Entertainment. It's obvious when you think about it. After all, who could afford to feed all those monkees?
You forgot the rest of it: "Continual Output of Luscious Entertainment: Programmable ARay of a Kaleidoscope of Entertaining Reading."
I wonder who the software engineers are? Obviously not affiliated with Microsoft. Or Apple.
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..."Also sadly, the church members and bystanders did not lift a finger to help the couple or to stop church leaders from perpetrating the crime."
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nuking firefox and reinstalling did the trick. I did a backup of my bookmarks first, and restoring was simple.
this all started with the upgrade to 7.01, but obviously something else found it's way onto my computer.......maybe it's time to start paying for antivirus software
Glad to hear you got it working.
Don't pay for anti-virus s/w though. Most of it infests your system so badly it might as well be called a virus, not anti-virus software. I'm assuming
you're running some version of windows? Pretty much the best option right now for anti-virus is to simply install the free, fully integrated, and surpisingly
good Microsoft Security Essentials A/V software.
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What continually upsets me is when I write 'your' for 'you're' or 'its' for 'it's' or make other similar types of errors and then find them in my stories after they're posted. I know how the words should be used--as we who write are all aware, these things simply occur because we're busy thinking ahead as we write and our fingers have a mind of their own--but I always feel that anyone reading this sort of thing immediately thinks, 'what a dumbass; my six-year-old knows better than this jerk.'
I've realized there's nothing I can do about it, and if they have those thoughts, perhaps they'll at least be happy, knowing they're smarter than I am.
It's so terribly hard, even with multiple and very fine editors, to turn out a mistake-free opus. I doubt I've done it yet. But at least I find I'm not alone. I can't remember the last errorless story I've read on the net.
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I've noticed a strange effect when one of my stories gets posted. I can have it edited, read it through dozens of times, check it carefully, and think that it's good to go.
Then, once it's posted, the VERY FIRST time I read it through on the site, I notice errors. Usually several. Something about the act of posting, or maybe about the differing venue, I don't know. But it seems to have the effect of making errors stand out so glaringly that I can see them (at least my own) practically before the story finishes rendering on the screen. As I sit there shaking my head and feeling like a fool I can't help wonder how so many books get published all the time, and when reading them I rarely see these kinds of errors. The power of many, many multiple rounds of professional editing I guess.
Either that, or the real pros don't make mistakes.
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As far as I know there's no issues like you describe being reported for any recent releases of firefox. I'm not having
difficulty, though I've been using Chrome more than firefox these days since it's faster.
A guess, from what you describe, is that possibly some piece of malware has changed your connection settings. Possibly to try
and route your connection through a proxy so they can spy on you / steal passwords / incite mayhem.
When you say that the sites won't load properly, do you mean they won't load at all? Or will they load but look wrong? Or
some other kind of issue maybe? That could be a malfunctioning plugin or extension in firefox.
First two things I would do would be to check the connection settings in the firefox preferences to make sure they haven't
been messed with, and disable extensions/plugins one by one to see if one of them is causing a problem.
Uninstalling and reinstalling firefox may not fix the problem unless you completely wipe your profile too. If you do this though you
will lose all your bookmarks, saved passwords, etc.
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A few of my favorites that seem to crop up more and more often:
past / passed
lose / loose
affect / effect
their / they're / there
to / too / two
then / than
its / it's
accept / except
...and more. Though I don't claim to never make those mistakes myself. Tired fingers do strange things.
Also, mangled turns of phrases or idioms seem to be turning up more and more often these days. I suspect the people who type
these have never really thought about the meaning, else they would stop short and check their accuracy.
Such as: "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes" or "use to" instead of "used to" or "suppose to" instead of "supposed to" or "close" instead of "clothes"
or "you have another thing coming" instead of "you have another think coming" or "on tender hooks" instead of "on tenterhooks"
There's more, but you get the picture.
I once saw "put him on a pedestal" written as "put him on a paddle stool"
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“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
--Mahatma Gandhi
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One of his last blog posts read: “I always say how bullied I am, but no one listens. What do I have to do so people will listen to me?”
Just over one week later, Jamey was found dead outside his home of an apparent suicide.
I'm actually having trouble with this one. Too much bad news today I think...
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Very intriguing.
Just the kind of story I like. One foot set in the here and now, one foot in the unknown. Well done.
If you ever end up writing more of this, I'll be in line to read it.
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WTF?!?!?!
Seriously, just WTF????!!!
That is all.
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Very sad news. I enjoyed his writing. This is truly a loss to the world.
Rest in Peace Richie.
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I've been following Orson Scott Card's continuous slide into homophobia and bigotry for quite a few years.
I was one of those people that discovered Ender's Game as a teen, and absolutely fell in love with it. I thought the writer
of such a work could do no wrong. He had some other good novels too, but then something quickly became noticeable.
Every book was a bit more obvious in how it pushed OSC's mormon religion. Every book was a bit more fundamentalist. A bit more bigoted,
and a bit more homophobic.
Then, some of his essays and speeches were even worse. Especially some of the stuff against gay marriage and other gay rights.
It truly is sad. Such a talented writer. Such a creative story teller. And more and more he is showing himself to be intolerant on so
many issues.
It's hard to fathom. And sad.
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Wow. Just....wow!
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My thanks for all the viable suggestions, but my real concern is that I cannot click on an author link here on the site and send mail to one of the persons writing a story. Like many of you I know the importance of feedback from a reader and how it inspires. But now as I read things here and there, think to reach out to the author with my praise, I cannot. How terribly frustrating.
My default mail client is not properly installed and so I can say nothing to those of you I admire. I guess you will just have to take my word for that...
Well, the next best thing then would be to use a gmail account, or yahoo or hotmail, or some such. A web based account. They're generally easy to set up an account and simple to use. Then, to email me about how I really need to work on my dialogue in my stories, you can just copy and paste the email address into the web mail page and send away.
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Take a look at this article.
An interesting take on the subject, especially considering some of the recent debate coming out of the United States, especially Texas, concerning sex ed and the failure of the "abstinence only" approach.
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I could really use some editing help folks. One of my editors has had to bail recently due to job and family commitments. (The nerve of him! Really, what should come first?!
) The other doesn't have much time these days, so I've been doing what no writer should ever do, trying to edit my own work.Job benefits are as follows:
Horrible hours. No pay at all. High expectations. The drudgery of combing through tangled sentences and attempting to figure out what the heck they're supposed to say before gently telling me that they're completely unreadable mush and I might consider re-doing the whole paragraph. Or chapter.
Any victims...errr....interested takers?
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Seriously if Microsoft was an author on AD, we'd all kick him out. Their hilariously useless error messages are not only almost always inaccurate, but also cryptic beyond belief.
However, when you work with computers long enough, you get to kind of learn how to read the error messages like an old sage reads wind and clouds and can magically predict the coming storm. (Yeah, I read Marathon Gold. Awesome story!)
Everyone above me pretty much answered this already. That message is saying A) Your browser (well, your OS, since your browser asks your OS the answer to this question) doesn't know what email client you want to use or B) you don't have any email program installed, or C) both.
Like EJ, Hoskins, and Camy said, you need to open your email program (or install it, and then open it) and then find the preferences for it and make sure, somewhere in the preferences, that it's checked as the default mail program for windows. Then when you click an email link it should pop up with that address already in the To: field.
) The other doesn't have much time these days, so I've been doing what no writer should ever do, trying to edit my own work.Scan to donate
Dinner at Eight.
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This was excellent. Very well done. Entertaining and skillfully written. A real gem! Thanks Camy.