Hello peeps, I hope you can help me with a little thing... it's for a fantasy thriller I'm currently working on, set in modern day (post-2010), where a woman 'sins' enough to unleash the verbal wrath of a certain type of spirits (not ghosts in traditional sense) that knows the truth of humans' personalities and their life stories. Their purpose is ( Read more... )

Hi all,

Is there a word for a love of clouds (in the way that bibliophilia means a love of books)? Google turns up something, but perhaps you all know something that it doesn't.

Thanks :)

One of my friends is an artist, and she's preparing something for an exhibition of science-related art. Her pieces are about the idea of using things like glass-blowing, chemical reactions etc to permanently record breath, something that's normally entirely fleeting. She's been trying to think of a title, but is stumped. All the english phrases she ( Read more... )

I'm writing a story in which the POV character speaks with a Southern accent, and I've got a couple of questions. At one point she uses the expression "fixing to," and I'm having trouble deciding whether to spell it in the text (narration, not dialogue) as "fixing to" or "fixin' to." So, for native Southern American English speakers, which one ( Read more... )

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I can't use 'emergency room' because in the US, there's a difference between emergency rooms and urgent care wards. (Emergency rooms are required to attend to individuals in an emergency situation regardless of their insurance status; an urgent care ward is free to admit or deny patients that are not insured.) I did a quick Google search which gave ( Read more... )

I'm a bad person wanting to use a language I don't know in a NaNoWriMo novel. But. I'd need a word in Turkish for "a creature, a being" with neutral or positive connotations, not "a monster" or "a beast". Google Translate gave me these variations ( Read more... )

Forgive me, for I am Noob, probably missing something incredibly obvious, and probably too wordy.

All right, so, I decided I will, in fact, devote myself to the years of effort it will take to create a fully-realized fictional, naturalistic language/culture for a people in one (and thank god only one!) of my stories. Up until this point, even the ( Read more... )

It's expressly permitted in the rules or I'd just do a workaround ( Read more... )

Recently, I've been thinking about words that either cannot be translated or simply do not exist from one language to another ( Read more... )