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elf for sweeping contest 18! And contest 19 is open for your submissions :D
In the bookstores here, they have a special section for 'Scottish Fiction', i.e. books written by Scottish writers. And sometimes, these books -- or parts of them, at least -- are in vernacular.
And occasionally you come across people attempting to read it.
Out loud.
People who are not Scottish.
This is a tremendous source of amusement for me, if you can't already tell.
Either way, the use of vernacular in these books serves a concrete purpose, though several writers tell us not to use phonetic spellings for dialogue or narration, (I think the majority of those people were mortified by how JKR wrote Hagrid's dialogue). However, I can't imagine Trainspotting without the vernacular. It would be a completely different book.
What do you think of the use of vernacular? Should it be more prevalent? When can it be used effectively? And why won'tazuire stop laughing at that Dubliner who's trying to read Glaswegian beat poetry?
elf for sweeping contest 18! And contest 19 is open for your submissions :DIn the bookstores here, they have a special section for 'Scottish Fiction', i.e. books written by Scottish writers. And sometimes, these books -- or parts of them, at least -- are in vernacular.
And occasionally you come across people attempting to read it.
Out loud.
People who are not Scottish.
This is a tremendous source of amusement for me, if you can't already tell.
Either way, the use of vernacular in these books serves a concrete purpose, though several writers tell us not to use phonetic spellings for dialogue or narration, (I think the majority of those people were mortified by how JKR wrote Hagrid's dialogue). However, I can't imagine Trainspotting without the vernacular. It would be a completely different book.
What do you think of the use of vernacular? Should it be more prevalent? When can it be used effectively? And why won't
azuire stop laughing at that Dubliner who's trying to read Glaswegian beat poetry?
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Also Wuthering Heights, your dialect was okay but for this reader it was almost completely unreadable.
I am excited for the new update page, but I imagine you're even more ;) It's just - new things! shiny needed things! :D :D
I think I left a comment at some point but I guess no one saw it, oops! :D Thanks, though.
Yeah, I think that's part of the layout...sadly, I don't know s2 or CSS well enough to suggest a fix.
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(i also keep meaning to get rid of the weird orange of links but, again, i forget so much.)
OMG YES. scheduled updates! saving multiple drafts! all the little boxes! awesomeness! pretty! customizable! SCHEDULED UPDATES do you have any idea how much easier that will make reminder posts?
(in the meantime i continue to flail excitedly about the random icon button. i try to use it on lj and then get really, really disappointed.)
also I am a crazy person and track the entire community; all new entries & every comment on every entry comes automatically to my mail. so I should have seen it. maybe I somehow overlooked it or maybe, idk. ANYWAY I hereby grant you permission to annoy me until I do things in the future. (It's the only way to get things done around here.)
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I like DW's customization system - you can change colours without needing knowledge of CSS! (designing colour schemes also made me waste about two or three hours XD)
Yeah, exactly. It's really the admins of comms that'll really benefit - scheduled posts. (What also would be really cool is the polls that close at x hour - I'm pretty sure that it's been suggested, so...) You have so many interesting icons, omg. *flails*
You track...the whole community? The whole thing? But- but - your inbox! HOW DO YOU COPE.
*annoys pip*
(deleted and reposted because of HTML fail #2)
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also I totally thought you did it on purpose this time hahaha.
I, um, well. what with having been a stay-at-home zombie for the past essentially year. it has been easy. (but i potentially start having a job next week so idk what's going to happen.) anyway this comm is the least of my tracking worries. I don't track the Flame entire but I do end up tracking a bunch of posts, and all the posts on the mod forum, and most of the posts on my other lj comm (and we can be a chatty bunch sometimes omg) and and and some personal posts from various people and, yes, it's a little ridiculous. i
wandered away to put my sheets in the dryer and forgot what i was saying. and hey, stop distracting me, i'm trying to write up a srs chatter post for the flame!
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Job! Scary! *no other comment to add*
I had lunch. It was very tasty. I like the random i hanging in there, but it looks kind of lonely.
make a silly chatter for the flame! :D *tempts you with comment*
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