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Mad Swede replied to the thread Anyone else on here into vintage computing?.And now I'm going to be awkward and ask which version of the TRS 80? Because if the dragon is using a TRS 80 Color Computer then what... -
Mad Swede reacted to A. E. Lowan's post in the thread Anyone else on here into vintage computing? with
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Mad Swede replied to the thread How do you name your Faerie/Little People ?.You mean the low fantasy book series by Mary Norton: The Borrowers, The Borrowers Afield, The Borrowers Afloat, The Borrowers Aloft, The...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread How would one describe this Anime exclusive bit of physical comedy in prose?.I'm not sure you can delay making the choice, at least not if you want to include visual or even physical jokes as part of the story...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread So about my 'style' of writing....No, I can't. I am severely dyslexic and I am not reading or writing in my first language. There are other non-English speakers in this...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread So about my 'style' of writing....I've said this to you before, I'm sure. This is not about your style of writiing. This is about your writing routines, your method if...
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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...
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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 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 Like.
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...
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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...