I must beg a favour, flisters. Would anyone be willing to beta-read my Fanlore study? I've got the professor as my communities of practice/theory specialist, I've got friends and family I can con into being grammar/spelling/does it make sense to outsiders specialists, but I would also love some fandom specialists. I'm writing this for ( Read more... )

Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!

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So, I'm reading an article for class (Information Organization) this afternoon. Or rather, I'm attempting to read it, but I keep getting distracted by all the glaring spelling and grammatical mistakes. Because I'm the sort of person who gets really annoyed by that sort of thing and every time I spot a mistake I get jarred out of whatever I'm ( Read more... )

So here's an interesting development in the art of plagiarism: babelfishing.

See, propinquitine Googled herself for fun and found an English-Russian-English translation of her SGA "The Last Man" missing scene, Foreseeable. The page provides quite an amusing rendition of the first 500 words of her story (the best line by far is Rodney's "It's not that we're ( Read more... )