Google doesn't know enough about Dan Hemmens yet.
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2013-05-24 12:14 - It’s Guys Like You Mickey -
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I have to wonder how many people who enjoy trashing education are doing it to give themselves that rush of superiority.
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2013-05-24 10:36 - Quiz Night! -
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I'm not sure it's true that leaving off a question mark makes the question look rhetorical. I think it just looks, well, incorrectly punctuated. Borrowing a citation from good old wikipedia, consider:
O mighty Caesar! dost thou li...
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2013-05-23 16:13 - It’s Guys Like You Mickey -
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Just because someone hates Twilight it doesn't have to be because they are a chauvinist asshole, is what I'm saying. I mean, don't get me wrong, that could be why. But it could also be because they have either taste or morals or both.</b...
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2013-05-23 09:13 - Quiz Night! -
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I was thinking more of direct changes in meanings that depend on punctuation
I think this comes back to Shimmin's point about hammers and nails. Not everything that affects meaning is grammar. If I attempt to write the wo... - 2013-05-22 09:19 - Quiz Night! - link @Arilou: What Shimmin said. Punctuation isn't about sentence *formation*, it's about transcribing sentences in a way that makes them easy to parse. This sentence, is correctly formed - even though it is - punctuated (oddly). To put it ano...
- 2013-05-21 12:24 - Quiz Night! - link Gosh, lots of comments - I've been distracted recently. @mommybird I did actually consider the Academie Francaise although it's worth pointing out that the AF doesn't actually have any real official power, and even if they did, it would o...
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2013-05-13 15:20 - Ho There Jim Lad -
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In legal terminology (of jurisdiction X), sure, but legal and common-language definitions don't necessarily match up, and coming out with "I think you'll find the legal definition of X is..." tends not to improve matters in arguments.</blockquo...
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2013-05-13 10:57 - Ho There Jim Lad -
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Precisely. It is illegal, but it falls under "breach of copyright" ("upphovsrättsbrott") not theft.
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2013-05-12 22:46 - Ho There Jim Lad -
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Perhaps piracy is less like stealing property and more like skipping tickets on the train?
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2013-05-12 18:27 - Ferretbrain Presents the teXt Factor Episode 1 - Monotheism -
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I don't think there's anything wrong with liking something with a silly premise at all; it just seems odd to me to single out fantasy readers specifically
Fair comment, I think it's just because Furies happens to be a... - 2013-05-12 15:11 - Ferretbrain Presents the teXt Factor Episode 1 - Monotheism - link It's one of those examples that could really cut both ways, isn't it. You could say "a skilled writer can make any idea work, as long as they execute it well" or "fantasy readers are so undiscerning that will read anything, no matter how ludicrous the prem...
- 2013-04-09 08:54 - Down and Out in the Secret World - link I'm not sure I'd even know what a Maine accent sounds like. In fact I seem to recall that very issue coming up on one of our podcasts.
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2013-04-01 22:13 - Peacast VIII: A Pocketful of Cum -
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So I'm nitpicking you because the basis on which you're offended by Supernatural contains some factual errors, not because you're wrong to be offended by Supernatural (in fact you don't know the half of it).
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2013-03-31 09:55 - Peacast VIII: A Pocketful of Cum -
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I...do not remember this. O_O
I've exaggerated a bit, but there's that whole sequence with the possessed blonde girl with the pixie-cut in which she's all evil and sexy, and then they have to drive the ... -
2013-03-28 23:26 - Peacast VIII: A Pocketful of Cum -
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Well, ultimately all the blame is on the author, so I'm not sure how useful it is to blame the author for creating the situation in the first place, here. I think as soon as you start getting into "character X has to do Y because otherw...
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2013-03-28 11:49 - Peacast VIII: A Pocketful of Cum -
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Could be because they seem to have read the book ahead of time; it gets worse and more rapey as it goes on (at least up to the point I reached).
That could well be it (although as far as I understand it he never lite...