Do you need the NotAmericans to identify for post-stripping purposes, although I guess if we don't opt-in then we won't get in the way.
This is my boat. They're part of my crew. No one's getting left. Best you get used to that.
Mal ,'Ariel'
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moonlit - Jan 29, 2004 3:47:20 am PST #3468 of 10289
"When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey." Martin Firrell
erinaceous - Jan 29, 2004 6:59:21 am PST #3469 of 10289
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
For ANC purposes, you're American if you 1) consider yourself a speaker of American English 2) if you aren't a native speaker of Am. English, you have lived in the U.S./Canada for more than ten years.
It would be good if those who consider themselves UnAmerican didn't opt in, yes. We don't have a rigid screening algorithm as yet!
billytea - Jan 29, 2004 7:10:57 am PST #3470 of 10289
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
It would be good if those who consider themselves UnAmerican didn't opt in, yes. We don't have a rigid screening algorithm as yet!
Ah. Ok, I guess I'm out then.
§ ita § - Jan 29, 2004 7:21:03 am PST #3471 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's 1) or 2), erinaceous? I doubt any of my posts'd be long enough to qualify, but I am 2) and not 1).
Ouise - Jan 29, 2004 8:02:47 am PST #3472 of 10289
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.
For ANC purposes, you're American if you 1) consider yourself a speaker of American English 2) if you aren't a native speaker of Am. English, you have lived in the U.S./Canada for more than ten years.So does that mean that, for ANC purposes, Canadians speak American English?
Elena - Jan 29, 2004 8:08:59 am PST #3473 of 10289
Thanks for all the fish.
Because I don't consider myself to speak American English.
Megan E. - Jan 29, 2004 9:05:09 am PST #3474 of 10289
Yah, what are you talking aboot? Colour me surprised.
Jeff Mejia - Jan 29, 2004 12:32:47 pm PST #3475 of 10289
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert
And I think Jeff is saying that he's looking forward to having his name verbified to something that's not an insult, but I defer to him of course.
Sorry about the confusion. Yes, this is what I was trying to say.
It's pronounced Mu-HEE-uh. Mexican origin.
Laura - Jan 29, 2004 12:41:18 pm PST #3476 of 10289
Our wings are not tired.
Thank you! I really prefer to read with proper pronunciation. (Also, easier to say than the odd pronunciation my mind was using)
erinaceous - Jan 29, 2004 1:38:45 pm PST #3477 of 10289
A fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.
That's 1) or 2), erinaceous? I doubt any of my posts'd be long enough to qualify, but I am 2) and not 1).
Yep, 1 OR 2. And the corpus is supposed to cover American and North American English, both. I'm not sure if they're tagging Canadian material, or just hoping it will sort itself out ... poor Canadians, they're always caught between the Brits and the Yanks ...
Anyway, this will all be marked "online", so it's not as cut-and-dried as it would be if I were soliciting published novels ...