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Mar 6 |
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Do you have to be good at grammar to get published? @C.A.McCann -- it wouldn't shock me if Kafka had a number of organic brain dysfunctions. |
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Mar 6 |
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Do you have to be good at grammar to get published? Thanks for the catch. Orthography (spelling) is essentially arbitrary; it's a convention to make it easier to render the language on paper. Compare it to penmanship. By contrast, vocabulary and grammar together are the language. If you cannot choose the words or you cannot string them together, by definition, you cannot write. |
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Mar 6 |
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Do you have to be good at grammar to get published? added 3 characters in body |
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Feb 8 |
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Fan-fiction and legalities [copyright etc.] @NeilFein -- I refer you to the case of Dr. Seuss v. Penguin Books, which I am totally not making up. The author of The Cat NOT in the Hat! mimicked the style of a Dr. Seuss book while retelling the O.J. Simpson murder trial. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the book was a satire, not a parody, because the book did not poke fun at or ridicule Dr. Seuss or his works. Instead, it merely used the Seuss style to tell a story of the murder. |
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Feb 8 |
answered | Fan-fiction and legalities [copyright etc.] |
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Feb 7 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Feb 7 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jul 26 |
answered | Is it good style to use latin phrases in english scientific literature? |
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Jul 13 |
awarded | Student |
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Jul 13 |
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Anybody know anything about examiner.com? Sad panda is sad. |
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Jul 13 |
asked | Anybody know anything about examiner.com? |
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Jul 8 |
answered | Do you have to be good at grammar to get published? |
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Jul 8 |
answered | Can a book be written without an antagonist? |
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Jul 8 |
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Audio version of copyrighted written material @sjl -- plus, breaking the law to promulgate a Bible (at least in the context of a just sovereign) might be working at cross-purposes. |
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Jul 8 |
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Audio version of copyrighted written material @RolandTaylor - if we are going to start hand-waving away bits of the Bible, can we get sodomy back? Your cites have different ways of squinting their eyes at the facts, but that's all they're doing. If you honestly think the Bible is inerrant, let me ask you, oh, how did Judas die? Did he hang himself, as in Matthew, or did he just detonate like a grenade, as per Acts? |
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Jul 8 |
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Audio version of copyrighted written material @sjl: I did not know that. I did some Googling; at least one close variation on the KJV was considered a "derivative work" and -- although it wasn't clear whether this was tested in court or just the publisher's lawyer's opinion -- therefore separately copyrightable. A spoken version of the book would be even more "derived" and less a "copy". If it were me, and I had no business interests in the UK, I would just go ahead and publish. If Her Majesty's Stationery Office sends me a C&D, so be it, but I think it about as likely as getting complaints from the Original Author. |
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Jul 7 |
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Audio version of copyrighted written material @RolandTaylor -- If you're into the science of the Bible, read 1 Kings 7:23, where the value for pi is 3. |
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Jul 7 |
answered | Audio version of copyrighted written material |
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Jun 21 |
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Is it worth spending money on a subsidy publisher? This. Vanity publishing is a scam. Print-on-demand like Lulu does everything a vanity publisher could do, with zero up-front costs. |
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Jun 21 |
answered | Will the word “seek” be associated with the word “sick” if it is present in the title of my book? |
