Western the genre, or western the adjective?
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Tom Scola - Nov 13, 2009 12:57:29 pm PST #4932 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
tommyrot - Nov 13, 2009 12:59:34 pm PST #4933 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Or do you mean west-ern?
megan walker - Nov 13, 2009 1:05:05 pm PST #4934 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The genre, i.e., "classic genres such as the gangster film, romantic comedies, horror films, or the Western."
§ ita § - Nov 13, 2009 1:13:07 pm PST #4935 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hmm. I think that those movies are about the West, so I've always thought of them as Westerns.
megan walker - Nov 13, 2009 1:16:33 pm PST #4936 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It's the non-symmetry with other categories that bothers me.
There's a distinction to be made between "the west" and "the West" so the cap makes sense. Is there another "the western" we might confuse "the Western" with?
-t - Nov 13, 2009 1:18:58 pm PST #4937 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'd just be capitalizing every other genre, as well, so I'm no help.
§ ita § - Nov 13, 2009 1:24:23 pm PST #4938 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If westerns were about the west, then I wouldn't capitalise them. But it's an extension of the West to me, so I keep what's there. It's more important to me than paralleling the other genres--if a genre was named after a country, I'd keep it capitalised too.
megan walker - Nov 13, 2009 1:31:52 pm PST #4939 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
He also uses Frisco, which is on a whole 'nother level of wrong.
javachik - Nov 13, 2009 1:47:50 pm PST #4940 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
He also uses Frisco, which is on a whole 'nother level of wrong.
He needs to have his Authorship card Revok-ed.
juliana - Nov 13, 2009 10:21:08 pm PST #4941 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
He also uses Frisco, which is on a whole 'nother level of wrong.
BURN THE HERETIC NOW!! Ahem.