'Never Leave Me'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
isn't it the colonial spelling
Er, define "colonial" -- are you putting America and Australia in that one basket? I don't think it's the "commonwealth" spelling.
It's one of those things where I now want to write the word ten times one way and ten times the other way, but then it'll just be leached of all meaning and it might as well say "flerk".
maybe they're speechless, you're so brilliant.
Bartender, a round for the house on me.
(flerk, flerk, flerk... the word has... oh, wait.)
I personally try to refer all questions of whether the S gets doubled or not to whatever spell-checker is available. The rules for whether you do or not seem so arbitrary to me that I don't even bother to try to remember them any more.
Sympathies, Ms. H. Might a chapter a day may just be too much for the group to absorb? I need a whole lot more time to read 'n think over a critique which is why my participation in critique groups has dropped to zip.
I don't think it's the "commonwealth" spelling.
I learnt to spell in Jamaica and Britain, and polished the skill in Canada. When Word first spat at travelled and focussed I was very traumatized. Or do I mean traumatised? Anyhoo, Word's US settings won't take it, but the Australian (and other commonwealth which is what I meant to mean since I always buy into the US's shucking of the label).
It's what I learnt.
commonwealth which is what I meant to mean since I always buy into the US's shucking of the label
My friend Kat and I like to refer to Americans as "cousins", à la John Le Carré
I definitely think "focussed" looks weird. What's more interesting is that Rebecca thinks it looks weird, seeing as she's solidly American.
"Focussed" looks wrong to me, too, as if the stress should be on the second syllable.
Yeah, we're getting an echo of "concussed", which tends to leave one unfocussed.
How do you feel about travelling with jewellery?
Hey, all. Woo Hoo! If I can make "Perfect" a bit more...perfect, The Disability Rag, which is like the savviest, hippest, cripmag in the country,(and one that pays, in like, cash, not karma points), wants to publish it. And no, the irony of a story with a flaw called "Perfect" is not lost on me.
travelling with jewellery
Neither of those freaks me out much, certainly not as much as the f-word.