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Slashy Nominations 128: Small Fandoms Well Pursued

Sep 05, 2005 01:35

I have a feeling I'm going to regret this. But, see, recently liviapenn reminded me that I have been remiss in my duties as a fan. Specifically, I have neglected my Fannish Heritage. (Capitals inserted to make the topic seem more important. Also, I figure this way I'm enhancing the chances that soon a course called that will be offered for credit at ( Read more... )

mario brothers, bourne identity, [rec theme: small fandoms], mr. and mrs. smith, boondock saints, breakfast club

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darthfox September 5 2005, 01:38:40 UTC

i wouldn't get too hung up on the spelling. Mc, Mac, tomato, tomahto, you know? i mean, ewan mcgregor is scottish, isn't he, and yet witness the lack of 'a'. just to take one example that leaps to mind.

thefourthvine September 5 2005, 03:02:08 UTC

I just experienced a brief but excruciating moment in which my brain tried to combine Duncan Macleod, tomatoes, Conner and Murphy MacManus, Ewan McGregor, and your user name ("a list of things I don't normally lick in public") into one coherent entity. And then I got a fatal exception error. But I will tell you this about the conglomerate: it was juicy. And filled with Scots and Irishmen.

Um. Time for bed, I'm thinking. That comment made no sense at all.

But, yes, okay, I see your point with the McGregor. It's just - I have to look up his name every time I type it because my brain wants to make it MacGregor. (Overexposure to Peter Cottontail in my youth is probably the cause there, I'm thinking.) And now I've got the reverse problem with the Brothers [Disputed]Manus, damn them.

Perhaps I should just post a style sheet over my computer and do some extra pranayama tonight.

(Oh, and totally off-topic - do you know IPA? Or some local equivalent?)

darthfox September 5 2005, 03:06:32 UTC

first four grafs: hee!

fifth paragraph: [raises eyebrow] i will forbear to wave my credentials in your face, and simply say yes, i do know IPA. :-)

thefourthvine September 6 2005, 00:51:18 UTC

Not questioning your credentials! It's just that, for all I know, all the really cool linguists just laugh haughtily when IPA is mentioned. It's been years since I learned it, and even then it was in an anthropology class. It could be that proper modern linguistics is done entirely using little tick marks on the back of cocktail napkins.

So my question for you (well, actually, I have another one, but it's dependent on a) me figuring out how to put IPA into a fic and b) finishing the fic: is there an IPA font/program/applet for download or web use somewhere, like there's formula makers that you can download? Because, seriously, I've got no chance of making those marks in a drawing program; I can't even recognizably produce my own name in those things.

Huh. And now I'm wondering why Daniel Jackson doesn't keep his field journals in IPA. Wouldn't that make more sense?

darthfox September 6 2005, 09:35:52 UTC

best i can do for you is this: http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/international/bylanguage/ipachart.html -- unless you have the capability to turn your documents into PDFs, in which event you might be interested in the font package available for free download from sil.org.

it would indeed make sense for daniel to keep his field journals in IPA -- but with his own idiosyncratic extras, because rough transcriptions are rough, you know?, where you have to work fast and make whatever notes you can, so often there's like IPA+individual shorthand at work. (but i never watched enough SG:1 to know the condition of daniel's journals at all, really.)

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