I think erinaceous just wants to put us in a lab and do experiments on us.
Which, on the whole, I'm in favor of.
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victor infante - Jan 26, 2004 12:15:32 pm PST #3389 of 10289
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
erinaceous - Jan 26, 2004 12:23:30 pm PST #3390 of 10289
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
I think erinaceous just wants to put us in a lab and do experiments on us.
the nice thing about being a linguist is that the whole world is your lab! Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha.
I am not sure whether the anonymization is total (all user names revert to USER NAME) or whether it's USER 42. I'll ask.
Betsy HP - Jan 26, 2004 12:25:29 pm PST #3391 of 10289
If I only had a brain...
As erinaceous sets off another fierce round of numberslutting...
Susan W. - Jan 26, 2004 12:30:38 pm PST #3392 of 10289
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Is there any chance that our quotes would end up in a publication of any kind, like an academic journal of linguistics or anything? I ask because it'd make a difference whether I opt in or not. I'm fine with one or a dozen random researchers reading about how my relationship history influences my reading of Buffy's in the show threads, or all my gripes about work in Natter. I'm not sure I'd feel the same about my posts being quoted in a journal and read by lots of people in the field.
Which is stupid of me, because of course ANYBODY could find this completely public forum and who knows how many lurkers know all about me, but there it is.
Laura - Jan 26, 2004 12:31:57 pm PST #3393 of 10289
Our wings are not tired.
I think erinaceous just wants to put us in a lab and do experiments on us.
She does have a rather Fred vibe. Do the AtS writers know her?
I'm verra fond of my user number so that would be shiny.
amych - Jan 26, 2004 12:35:11 pm PST #3394 of 10289
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
who knows how many lurkers know all about me
Knowing the world of academic journal publishing, probably far more than would ever read about you through journal articles.
erinaceous - Jan 26, 2004 12:38:37 pm PST #3395 of 10289
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
Is there any chance that our quotes would end up in a publication of any kind, like an academic journal of linguistics or anything?
This is possible, although not incredibly likely. It would be probably a computational or corpus linguistics journal, and would most likely show up as a Key Word In Context, or KWIC. So if the word was 'foamy,' for example, 'foamy' would show up in the middle of fewer than twenty words, like this:
and Legolas is incredibly foamy, and now PERSONAL NAME's going to kill me with her pinky finger
I can't imagine that there would be any more context than that. There would probably be at least five and maybe as many as thirty OTHER 'foamy' quotes around yours, as well.
edited to show anonymizing ...
Jon B. - Jan 26, 2004 12:41:05 pm PST #3396 of 10289
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Would Legolas need to opt in?
Susan W. - Jan 26, 2004 12:41:34 pm PST #3397 of 10289
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Knowing the world of academic journal publishing, probably far more than would ever read about you through journal articles.
Yeah, true.
And thanks, erin.
§ ita § - Jan 26, 2004 12:45:12 pm PST #3398 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
erinaceous, that's the ONE context you can keep my name in for.
eta: though now I'm trying to imagine true anonymity, which would require MARTIAL ART NAME all over the place, and it's making me laugh.