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Mad Swede replied to the thread How would one describe this Anime exclusive bit of physical comedy in prose?.I wonder if this is the basic problem with what you're trying to do. You're trying to convey a visual form of storytelling in prose... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread How would one describe this Anime exclusive bit of physical comedy in prose?.I wonder if you understand the comment Penpilot made? What you are trying to do is describe a visual joke in prose (text) form. That is...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Ask, you may be surprised.Having now dug out my digital copy of Pliny's Natural History, I find that the reference to pegasi is in Book VIII Chapter 21. Pliny...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Technology and Eras in Fantasy.I think I would phrase it as change is gradual because it depends on change in people and people are complicated. I sometimes hear...
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Yay, Mom! Yeah, I can totally agree with her. I think the thought that somehow got lost in my post was "it depends because people are...
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Mad Swede reacted to The Dark One's post in the thread Purple Prose and playing with words with
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Purple prose doesn't have to be bad prose. Done well, in the right context, it can be fun and even quite literary but it requires the... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread Ask, you may be surprised.If you're using Greek words, yes. :) But Pliny the Elder was writing in Latin, so the plural is pegasi, and British English follows...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Ask, you may be surprised.Pegasus is both a proper noun (as in Greek mythology) and a common noun (as in Roman bestiaries). So yes, as a common noun pegasus has a...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Technology and Eras in Fantasy.One example of gradual transition is the Nordic countries. Here, the Iron Age is regarded as stretching into the Viking period, and in...
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On the subject of transition periods being somehow gradual... that's not how real life works. So, homework. Search 536 AD. Geographics...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Technology and Eras in Fantasy.Petrarch first used the term "dark ages" in the 1330s, criticising what he percieved to be the poor standards of literature in Italy at...
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There's a whole thing in the book I'm writing now about how the Pegasi (yes, I know that's not the proper conjugation but I've been...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Ask, you may be surprised.Pegasi is the correct plural form of the common noun pegasus, at least in British English, as the word pegasus originates in Latin...
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Also, never underestimate what you can learn from an expert in their field over a couple of baskets of wings and a pitcher of beer. I...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread A quote from the late Sir Terry Pratchett....We might also see Pratchett's comment as a reply to the criticism some people make of fantasy stories, that they somehow frighten...