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I'll bet a penny you didn't even need to google that.
I'll be fine. I'll be your bounty, Jubal Early. And I'll just fade away.
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The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration
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By consensus, this thread is reopened specifically to discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It will be closed again once that discussion has run its course.
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Trudy Booth - Aug 24, 2007 7:27:46 am PDT #2624 of 3301
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
megan walker - Aug 24, 2007 7:32:06 am PDT #2625 of 3301
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
This one seems more complete: [link]
I never knew the British were so mad (that's crazy for you Yanks!) about hyphens.
But neither is the one I initially found which was went through at least the first three books.
Hil R. - Aug 24, 2007 7:32:11 am PDT #2626 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The whole "Bat-Bogey Hex" thing confused me until I read somewhere that bogey = booger. I think that was the only unchanged British word that I either didn't know or couldn't figure out.
Hil R. - Aug 24, 2007 7:35:00 am PDT #2627 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Huh. Looks like they also added the commas for compound sentences. And in at least one case, fixed the subjunctive. Are British rules for those things different?
Connie Neil - Aug 24, 2007 7:36:10 am PDT #2628 of 3301
brillig
The Skiving Snackbox has taken me years to figure out.
DavidS - Aug 24, 2007 7:39:23 am PDT #2629 of 3301
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I still reread my Elizabeth Enright on occasion, and they're still good. The Melendys were the family I wanted to be part of, instead of my own.
God yes, I loved the Gone Away Lake books. The second one was very dykealicioius too, as I recall.
Connie Neil - Aug 24, 2007 7:40:44 am PDT #2630 of 3301
brillig
The second one was very dykealicioius too, as I recall.
Dude, you read a whole different set of books than I did.
Hil R. - Aug 24, 2007 7:43:13 am PDT #2631 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
OK, this is just weird. They changed "'No post on Sundays,' he reminded them happily as he spread marmalade on his newspapers," to ""No post on Sundays," he reminded them cheerfully as he spread marmalade on his newspapers,". Most other places, they changed "post" to "mail." Here, they left it, but changed "happily" to "cheerfully"? Why?
megan walker - Aug 24, 2007 7:45:51 am PDT #2632 of 3301
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Are British rules for those things different?
Probably not. When I taught in Paris at a university where the English professors were fairly evenly divided between Brits and Americans, it was a commonplace that the Americans had "better" grammar.
Case in point, this edit from the British: "I have one myself above my left knee which is a perfect map of the London Underground."
to the American: "I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground."
Hil R. - Aug 24, 2007 7:46:57 am PDT #2633 of 3301
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
And they changed "mint humbugs" to "peppermint humbugs"? That doesn't make it any clearer to US readers -- I figured out that it's some sort of mint candy, but that's as far as either phrase will get me.