"Focussed" looks wrong to me, too, as if the stress should be on the second syllable.
Hey, man, where are my pants? I have my hippo dignity!
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Susan W. - Nov 25, 2002 3:07:05 pm PST #393 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
John H - Nov 25, 2002 3:10:01 pm PST #394 of 10001
Yeah, we're getting an echo of "concussed", which tends to leave one unfocussed.
§ ita § - Nov 25, 2002 3:33:34 pm PST #395 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How do you feel about travelling with jewellery?
erikaj - Nov 25, 2002 3:47:25 pm PST #396 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
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.
John H - Nov 25, 2002 3:53:09 pm PST #397 of 10001
travelling with jewellery
Neither of those freaks me out much, certainly not as much as the f-word.
scrappy - Nov 25, 2002 4:21:12 pm PST #398 of 10001
Nobody
Yay, Erika!! That is so cool!
Susan W. - Nov 25, 2002 4:24:51 pm PST #399 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Go Erika!
Ms. Havisham - Nov 25, 2002 4:33:19 pm PST #400 of 10001
And we will call it... "This Land."
Congrats, Erika!
Theodosia - Nov 25, 2002 4:42:34 pm PST #401 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Hoo-hah, Erika!
Rebecca Lizard - Nov 25, 2002 4:44:38 pm PST #402 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I definitely think "focussed" looks weird. What's more interesting is that Rebecca thinks it looks weird, seeing as she's solidly American.
Yes, but I'm also just weird.
MS Word, with spelling set to American last time I checked, accepted "focussed". That's why I said "that's so odd" and not "you've got a typo".