Ooh. Component! Very pretty. It handles comment thread better than Flexible Squares.
Well, there's the eternal phonetic rendering vs logic and sanity (can you tell which side I fall on :D ) debate about Spike's dialogue. Some people are completely besotted with writing Spike's dialogue so he tawk loike this, luv. 'M goin' to be comin' roun' t' moun'ai' whe' Ai cummmmmmms and some people are rather into Spike, the English person, speaking English. It's a shocker, I know.
HP fandom can war about spelling like no one else (mostly British spelling vs American spelling, validity and authenticity... just search the Snitch for "Britpicking" but also rejection from restricted archives/newletters/sites due to spelling, the etiquette of pointing out typos, the list is very interdependent (and not at all comprehensive, I just got bored of typing. Am I in parentheses IN parentheses now? (This is a new low. ;) )) ).
Ummm, fans in meatspace (http://qowf.livejournal.com/328709.html). Ys.
There are no simple answers in fandom. There are usually as many answers as there are fans. And there are a lot of fans. :)
I forgot what we were meant to be talking about. Um. Words and the way we say them. Or, thoughts and experiences and the way we express them? A sad English song is slow; it maybe tumbles down a minor key; it's quiet, turned in like a person hugging themselves and biting their bottom lip. There might be a single long keening burst of grief. A more extroverted person from Europe might wail or beat their breast or curse the world with a swelling instrumental but a sad English song is muted. And so the two things are linked?
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Well, there's the eternal phonetic rendering vs logic and sanity (can you tell which side I fall on :D ) debate about Spike's dialogue. Some people are completely besotted with writing Spike's dialogue so he tawk loike this, luv. 'M goin' to be comin' roun' t' moun'ai' whe' Ai cummmmmmms and some people are rather into Spike, the English person, speaking English. It's a shocker, I know.
HP fandom can war about spelling like no one else (mostly British spelling vs American spelling, validity and authenticity... just search the Snitch for "Britpicking" but also rejection from restricted archives/newletters/sites due to spelling, the etiquette of pointing out typos, the list is very interdependent (and not at all comprehensive, I just got bored of typing. Am I in parentheses IN parentheses now? (This is a new low. ;) )) ).
Ummm, fans in meatspace (http://qowf.livejournal.com/328709.html). Ys.
There are no simple answers in fandom. There are usually as many answers as there are fans. And there are a lot of fans. :)
I forgot what we were meant to be talking about. Um. Words and the way we say them. Or, thoughts and experiences and the way we express them? A sad English song is slow; it maybe tumbles down a minor key; it's quiet, turned in like a person hugging themselves and biting their bottom lip. There might be a single long keening burst of grief. A more extroverted person from Europe might wail or beat their breast or curse the world with a swelling instrumental but a sad English song is muted. And so the two things are linked?
I am such a ponce. :P