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| bio | website | jsbangs.com |
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| location | United States | |
| age | 31 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 6 months |
| seen | May 15 at 19:01 | |
| stats | profile views | 54 |
I have a degree in Linguistics, but I work as a programmer. Most of my expertise about English is self-taught, plus lots of random trivia I've acquired here and there.
This is my favorite EL&U comment ever:
This isn't really a question about English so much as a question about hugs. Source
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Nov 12 |
answered | How much should I reveal about my book idea to a publishing house representative? |
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Nov 9 |
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Unpunctuation: bug or feature? The em-dash thing is standard in several European languages. Was the book translated? Or was she deliberately aping that style? |
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Nov 3 |
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How can I effectively invent a language? This would be off-topic at Linguistics.SE. However, it would be on-topic for the forthcoming Conlang.SE. |
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Oct 31 |
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I have compiled a poetry book with poems of 4chan users. It has a lot of racial slurs and vulgarisms, is it possible to publish something like that? You could put them up as a 99-cent ebook. I think you'd sell a decent number of copies that way. |
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Oct 30 |
awarded | Civic Duty |
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Oct 28 |
answered | Where would be a good place to start for a 15 yr old who wants to be a writer when she's older? |
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Oct 21 |
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Groom's speech, any suggestions? In any case, I think that public speaking is generally off-topic for this site. |
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Oct 11 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Oct 11 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Oct 5 |
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First person with co-authors? I agree that "we" is standard in these sorts of contexts, and it doesn't sound weird to me at all. |
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Sep 27 |
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Frailties, mistakes, and imperfections edited tags |
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Sep 20 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Sep 19 |
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Dialogue writing practices? You might like this article: terribleminds.com/ramble/2011/07/05/… |
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Sep 19 |
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Minimum (realistic) word count of non-fiction book I think your numbers are on the high side. |
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Sep 19 |
asked | So I finished my novel. Now what do I do? |
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Sep 13 |
answered | Should I care if my short story has the same title as someone else's book? |
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Sep 9 |
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What to do if I can't meet my chapter word count? edited tags |
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Sep 9 |
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What to do if I can't meet my chapter word count? My personal experience: I originally outlined my current WIP into 30 chapters, to which I allotted 3,000 words apiece, giving me a total of 90K. But in reality, the chapters came out everywhere from 1,500 to 6,000 words, and that's fine. Give each chapter as much or as little space as it needs. |
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Sep 6 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Sep 6 |
awarded | Nice Question |
