JSBurbidge
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Commented on "I doubt me an it be commercial."
He would have to learn small letters first, and distinguishing u and v, before working with electronic media for which minuscule letters are the default. And I'm not sure it would be entirely easy. I know some people who have...
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Commented on "I doubt me an it be commercial."
I am not a linguist, but I have a number of languages (including Latin, Greek, and Anglo-Saxon) and dabble in linguistics proper. English's generally worn down character isn't the result of extensive creolization, though the result tends to look like...
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Commented on "I doubt me an it be commercial."
By the time you've got to the point of considering a sample, most of the problem is solved. The problem is the search space. There are hundreds of traditionally published SFF novels every year. Once, those books got vetted by...
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Commented on "I doubt me an it be commercial."
Gaiman picked up the idea from James Branch Cabell - John Charteris' library in Beyond Life, which not only has authors' unwritten works but also the Intended Editions of their published works. Cabell's view, set out in Straws and Prayer-Books,...