I was just reading a book that talked about "programmes" that are parts of "organizations" -- Canadian, right? With the UK/US combo dealie?
Raise your hand if 'ew.'
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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Jesse - Mar 09, 2006 6:31:36 pm PST #922 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sue - Mar 10, 2006 4:16:01 am PST #923 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I was just reading a book that talked about "programmes" that are parts of "organizations" -- Canadian, right? With the UK/US combo dealie?
Um, we contains multitudes?
Jessica - Mar 10, 2006 4:50:26 am PST #924 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
[edit: Nevermind. To drink coffee makes our reading English possible.]
Nutty - Mar 10, 2006 6:12:39 am PST #925 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
This movement, incidentally, being why the Red Sox are spelled with an "x."
Technically, two different movements. Noah Webster, way back, is the guy who dropped the U from color, on basis of the New American Awesomeness And Rightness (and Not-Britishness) after the revolutionary war. There was another movement of "spelling simplification" in the 1830s-40s, which would be why Melville Dewey spent his latter years signing his name Melvil Dui. And then there was Teddy Roosevelt, 50 years after that, who tried to ram a standardized simplification plan through the federal government, and caused an uproar. The Red Sox are a part of that last movement.
Kathy A - Mar 10, 2006 7:09:19 am PST #926 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Don't forget Robert McCormick, who ran the Chicago Tribune and imposed his obsession with simplified language on the paper's approved style bible. This is where "catalog" instead of "catalogue" came from, and he came pretty close to getting "thru" instead of "through" accepted.
§ ita § - Mar 10, 2006 7:14:24 am PST #927 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
tommyrot - Mar 10, 2006 7:57:04 am PST #928 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Ron Perlman told SCI FI Wire that the Hellboy sequel has a working title Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, and he's hopeful it will go into production later this year.
§ ita § - Mar 10, 2006 8:04:12 am PST #929 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Two Ask The Dust reviews:
The NY Times calls the Farrell character the alter ego of the novel's author, but I don't get the impression he's actually based on a real person other than that.
Jessica - Mar 10, 2006 8:06:55 am PST #930 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
and he's hopeful it will go into production later this year.
Sweet!
Nutty - Mar 10, 2006 8:20:34 am PST #931 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
but I don't get the impression he's actually based on a real person other than that.
I guess I was under a misimpression, but the point is, the author John Fante was Italian (and seemed kind of pissed about it), and the main character is Italian because it's a quasi-autobiographical novel.