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Question Let's just get this over with.
6 years 9 months ago #1
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6 years 9 months ago #9
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Welcome! Be comforted by the fact that even if we are absolutely outraged or appalled at your posts, we can only look at your avatar. We can stare at it really really hard, but it will still just be your avatar and not you. And we don't do rejection either. You have to be a complete asshole and obnoxiously harassing other community members and risking chasing away authors before we go to the extent of banning you. It's only happened a couple times in the entire history of the community. So... pretty damn unlikely.
(note to the peanut gallery - that is NOT a call to challenge 
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As far as doing some writing ... great! Always happy to have new talent join the community. Just be sure to be clear in the type of feedback (if any) that you want. Some of us like being raked over the coals about what we're doing, some people want big picture feedback, others just want proofing help (typos/spelling/etc), and you will get some of each if you aren't clear. Also, be open when you talk with the other authors and readers about what you hope to achieve with your stories. Are you workshopping? Honing skills? Trying new styles or genre? Trying to create something that will 'wow' the community? working towards print publication? Such things will change how we read and respond to your efforts... and you can have all the control over that... you simply have to be clear about it from the start.
And again, welcome. Always great to have someone de-lurk.
Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
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DerpHaven wrote: I... don't want to be doing this. I don't like announcing my presence, especially in such a small community, because it makes people look at me, and then they judge me, and then I get worried that I'll be rejected for some stupid reason... *deep inhale*
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So, um, hi?
Welcome! Be comforted by the fact that even if we are absolutely outraged or appalled at your posts, we can only look at your avatar. We can stare at it really really hard, but it will still just be your avatar and not you. And we don't do rejection either. You have to be a complete asshole and obnoxiously harassing other community members and risking chasing away authors before we go to the extent of banning you. It's only happened a couple times in the entire history of the community. So... pretty damn unlikely.
(note to the peanut gallery - that is NOT a call to challenge ).As far as doing some writing ... great! Always happy to have new talent join the community. Just be sure to be clear in the type of feedback (if any) that you want. Some of us like being raked over the coals about what we're doing, some people want big picture feedback, others just want proofing help (typos/spelling/etc), and you will get some of each if you aren't clear. Also, be open when you talk with the other authors and readers about what you hope to achieve with your stories. Are you workshopping? Honing skills? Trying new styles or genre? Trying to create something that will 'wow' the community? working towards print publication? Such things will change how we read and respond to your efforts... and you can have all the control over that... you simply have to be clear about it from the start.
And again, welcome. Always great to have someone de-lurk.
Fate guard you and grant you a Light to brighten your Way.
6 years 9 months ago #10
by Phoenix Spiritus
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Who's looking at the peanut gallery? If a challenge is issue around here, the first fight is amongst the authors to see which one of them is gonna pick up the gauntlet!
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Kristin Darken wrote: note to the peanut gallery - that is NOT a call to challenge
Who's looking at the peanut gallery? If a challenge is issue around here, the first fight is amongst the authors to see which one of them is gonna pick up the gauntlet!
6 years 9 months ago #11
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6 years 9 months ago #13
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Never give up, Never surrender! Captain Peter Quincy Taggert
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Color has no "u"
Neither does armor.
Center is terminated with "er", not some silly "re"
Same for theater.
We ride an elevator, not a lift.
We drive trucks, not lorries.
And the steering wheel belongs on the left side of the car. You got it right in airplanes - command pilot is left-seat. Why can't you do the same for motor vehicles?
There are more of us than Brit (and Brit-derived native-English speakers). We win by popular vote.
You have 3 months to correct all your mistakes.
Neither does armor.
Center is terminated with "er", not some silly "re"
Same for theater.
We ride an elevator, not a lift.
We drive trucks, not lorries.
And the steering wheel belongs on the left side of the car. You got it right in airplanes - command pilot is left-seat. Why can't you do the same for motor vehicles?
There are more of us than Brit (and Brit-derived native-English speakers). We win by popular vote.
You have 3 months to correct all your mistakes.
Never give up, Never surrender! Captain Peter Quincy Taggert
6 years 9 months ago #15
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6 years 9 months ago #18
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I love watching their innocent little faces smiling happily as they trip gaily down the garden path, before finding the pit with the rusty spikes.
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I thought the position of the steering wheel didn't matter in Texas, as they drive down the middle of the road.
Swerving a bit depending on the number of 6-packs.
Swerving a bit depending on the number of 6-packs.
I love watching their innocent little faces smiling happily as they trip gaily down the garden path, before finding the pit with the rusty spikes.
6 years 9 months ago #19
by DerpHaven
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Says the Brit-derived native-English speaker.
Though I feel I should also mention -ise words such as Traumatise and Monetise.
tl;dr: F*ck Noah Webster.
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." -Sir Terry Pratchett
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elrodw wrote: There are more of us than Brit (and Brit-derived native-English speakers). We win by popular vote.
You have 3 months to correct all your mistakes.
Says the Brit-derived native-English speaker.
Though I feel I should also mention -ise words such as Traumatise and Monetise.
tl;dr: F*ck Noah Webster.
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." -Sir Terry Pratchett
6 years 9 months ago #20
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I love watching their innocent little faces smiling happily as they trip gaily down the garden path, before finding the pit with the rusty spikes.
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English is the most widely spoken and written language in the world.
Note, English, not American
Note, English, not American
I love watching their innocent little faces smiling happily as they trip gaily down the garden path, before finding the pit with the rusty spikes.
6 years 9 months ago - 6 years 9 months ago #21
by Phoenix Spiritus
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India sides with the rest of the Commonwealth, and has the most native English speakers in the world (Sorry America, you're not even half the number India has), so by that standard you need to throw out your Webster abominations on the Queen's English and come back to join the correct and true way of spelling.
But we're patient, and we understand things are a little hard for you poor Americans, and there's so much more you need to fix first, so we'll wait for you to adopt universal SI measurements, then become a true first world country (it's the little things, universal health care, universal education, taxation only on money earned in your own jurisdiction, a truely democratic system of government where everyone gets to vote and the will of the majority of voters is respected), the we'll let you attack the more advanced concepts, like English as the English spell it.
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elrodw wrote: There are more of us than Brit (and Brit-derived native-English speakers). We win by popular vote.
You have 3 months to correct all your mistakes.
India sides with the rest of the Commonwealth, and has the most native English speakers in the world (Sorry America, you're not even half the number India has), so by that standard you need to throw out your Webster abominations on the Queen's English and come back to join the correct and true way of spelling.
But we're patient, and we understand things are a little hard for you poor Americans, and there's so much more you need to fix first, so we'll wait for you to adopt universal SI measurements, then become a true first world country (it's the little things, universal health care, universal education, taxation only on money earned in your own jurisdiction, a truely democratic system of government where everyone gets to vote and the will of the majority of voters is respected), the we'll let you attack the more advanced concepts, like English as the English spell it.
6 years 9 months ago #22
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Author of Into the Light, Light's Promise, and Call of the Light
(starts with Into The Light )
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Aaaand this thread seems to have gone political...
So uhh... Hi! And Welcome!
So uhh... Hi! And Welcome!
Author of Into the Light, Light's Promise, and Call of the Light
(starts with Into The Light )
6 years 9 months ago #23
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It's kinda hard to be political when one person just gets completely shut down.
Also thanks, and thanks to everyone else who's welcomed me!
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." -Sir Terry Pratchett
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Erisian wrote: Aaaand this thread seems to have gone political...
So uhh... Hi! And Welcome!
It's kinda hard to be political when one person just gets completely shut down.
Also thanks, and thanks to everyone else who's welcomed me!
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life." -Sir Terry Pratchett
6 years 9 months ago #24
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This isn't political, it's the normal friction of the Whateley Authors as a few of us spell correctly, and the rest are corrupted by the evil mind control of Webster and his cult 
6 years 9 months ago #26
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Nah this is just friendly teasing.
Besides everyoune knouws that the US and the UK are twou countries divided by a coummoun language.
Don't Drick and Drive.
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Erisian wrote: Aaaand this thread seems to have gone political...
So uhh... Hi! And Welcome!
Nah this is just friendly teasing.
Besides everyoune knouws that the US and the UK are twou countries divided by a coummoun language.
Don't Drick and Drive.
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