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zompist wrote: ↑Sat Dec 23, 2023 4:06 am Is there a "science fiction future past tense" in English because most sf is written in the past tense?

keenir wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:28 am

xxx referencing masako wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 4:12 am repaving the roads to Rome...

All roads need to be repaved...otherwise you get potholes.

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:45 pm

keenir wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:28 am

xxx wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 4:12 am repaving the roads to Rome...

All roads need to be repaved...otherwise you get potholes.

xxx wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:00 pm

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:45 pm

keenir wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 11:28 am
All roads need to be repaved...otherwise you get potholes.

it's misquoted, I was quoting masako

keenir wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:57 pm

xxx wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:00 pm

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 12:45 pm

it's misquoted, I was quoting masako

Its a perfectly good quotation. You did say that about repaving the roads to rome.

xxx wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:00 pm I was quoting masako

xxx wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 2:14 pm

keenir wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:57 pm

xxx wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:00 pm

it's misquoted, I was quoting masako

Its a perfectly good quotation. You did say that about repaving the roads to rome.

xxx wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 1:00 pm I was quoting masako

xxx wrote: ↑Wed Dec 27, 2023 4:12 am repaving the roads to Rome...
it is the best way to appreciate the twists and turns and adapt a new pattern...
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Ares Land wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:20 amand businessmen don't go around and sell air. Yet.

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 6:15 am

Ares Land wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:20 amand businessmen don't go around and sell air. Yet.

Man in Space wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 12:00 pm

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 6:15 am

Ares Land wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:20 amand businessmen don't go around and sell air. Yet.

Wrong.

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 12:24 pm

Man in Space wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 12:00 pm

Raphael wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 6:15 am

Wrong.

Oh.

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Moose-tache wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 7:04 am What is a consonantal root system but ablaut on steroids?

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Fri Jan 05, 2024 2:01 pm The incubation of great eccentrics is, of course, the highest calling of any civilization, but it's mostly incompatible with employability.

Man in Space wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:47 am My character’s signature weapon is the fire extinguisher. Not the fancy sword given to him by the one adversary he considers worthy. Fire extinguishers. Surprising array of uses, they have.

bradrn wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:55 am

Man in Space wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:47 am My character’s signature weapon is the fire extinguisher. Not the fancy sword given to him by the one adversary he considers worthy. Fire extinguishers. Surprising array of uses, they have.

Man in Space wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:11 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:55 am

Man in Space wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:47 am My character’s signature weapon is the fire extinguisher. Not the fancy sword given to him by the one adversary he considers worthy. Fire extinguishers. Surprising array of uses, they have.

I’m not kidding. My character literally has a side business designing, building, and selling fire suppression equipment. I’ve made the GM have to consider the mechanics of what Halon does to things.

Conventional foam fire extinguishers are surprisingly effective point-blank incendiary-denial weapons when deployed against dragons. You can literally snuff out a dragon.

Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 3:53 pm

At the same time as [Sinn Féin local politician] Joe Austin was being berated on the streets because the IRA hadn’t yet attacked the Shankill, his constituency manager told him to call to an old lady’s house where there was a problem. The cat from next door wouldn’t stop spraying the flowers in her garden. She made it clear that she wanted the IRA to do something about it. Austin called next door, where an unshaven man in a vest looked up from his newspaper and said, ‘Hello, Joe, I suppose it’s about the cat.’ ‘It is.’ ‘Look, I’ll tell you what. It’s not my cat at all. I’m just minding it for a friend. I’ll leave it back and you can get that oul’ wan off my back.’ ‘Good man.’ Austin went back to the old lady’s door: ‘That’s okay about the cat. You’ll have no more trouble.’ The woman was awestruck: ‘Did you get it shot? Did the IRA shoot it? Is it dead?’

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 12:00 pm However, because of the book, I now know that Boris Johnson once wrote a novel called Seventy-Two Virgins, and now, barring dementia or something like that, I can't unlearn that fact.

Ares Land wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 4:40 amHonestly the names feel more Pratchettian than Mesoamerican.

bradrn wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 9:07 pm
I’ve never been entirely sure about the precise quality of my /r/s, but I’m pretty sure they are labialised, yes.