Links of mild interest - and a bit of language thinking

Feb 06, 2016 13:37

I'm posting a lot, I know, right now, in the attempt to find some counterweights to the world's worth of bad news.  I hope I'm not wearing you all out!

Here's the not-internet world still ticking over - fanzines live!

I was really happy to see what might be the beginning of widespread fair wages for fast-food workers in the US.

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asakiyume February 6 2016, 03:29:20 UTC
I'll check out the other links too, but wow, the opalized pearls really are gorgeous!

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heliopausa February 7 2016, 02:41:00 UTC
:) I'm glad you liked them!

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adaese February 6 2016, 09:40:34 UTC
Lovely opals! When I went fossil - hunting in Lyme Regis a few years ago, we found ammonites formed of pyrites and of calcite in different places. In other words, some were fool's gold and some were crystal. Also some plain grey stone, which I might not have bothered with if they hadn't been sharing a rock with an ichthyosaur's eye.

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heliopausa February 7 2016, 02:48:06 UTC
an ichthyosaur's eye! I had to go and find out what that could be, because I had never known of such a thing (in a fossil). Wow! What a brilliant find!
(Glad you liked the opals, too.)

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moon_custafer February 6 2016, 13:44:44 UTC
I figured that was the origin of "wotcher," (and my autocorrect keeps trying to turn it back into "what cheer," ) but I didn't know for sure.

I expect Quebec may defiantly keep the circomflexe -- they're bigger language purists than the French.

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heliopausa February 7 2016, 02:55:17 UTC
It's only my figuring too - i.e. I can't say I know for sure. :) But it's such a pleasure to think of the language hanging in there, from at least the sixteenth century on down. (Here's an odd one - I found in a 1875 novel the other day an adolescent (middle-class, UK) speaking to his hurry-up father, saying "Oceans of time, dad" - which I thought sounded amazingly now.)
Thanks for the tip re: Quebec's purist tendencies - if I ever go there, I'll mime a lot!

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wellinghall February 6 2016, 16:19:23 UTC
I think I knew about "wotcher", somewhere in the deep, dark recesses of my brain, although I am not sure.

Some these fanzines still exist in dead tree form:
http://news.ansible.uk/#fnz

And your posts are always welcome! :-)

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heliopausa February 7 2016, 02:57:30 UTC
ah! - quite a few fanzines still going then! :) Good to see.

and thank you. :)

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rthstewart February 6 2016, 16:57:47 UTC
Yes, the world is awful and me alongside it. Thank you for the notes and such. I've not had the courage or fortitude to respond. But onward. The world of Star Wars zines (and broader Trek and others) has a really interesting history in the U.S. http://fanlore.org/wiki/Ming_Wathne

I met Ming in the mid 90s when I first got into the Star Wars online fandom. She would carry these WILD zines around -- with pictures. I distinctly remember the one with Han Solo and a mermaid. the first slash (and incest as well!) I ever read was courtesy of Ming-provided zine. She collected hundreds, thousands of them, and, eventually, they ended up in a University Library with the help of the Organization for Transformative Works/AO3.

Be well!

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wellinghall February 6 2016, 18:22:04 UTC
More *hugs*, rthstewart.

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heliopausa February 7 2016, 03:05:07 UTC
The world's pretty grim, but you're not! :) Thank you for this, and especially for linking to the story of Ming and the fanzines! That was really good to read about everything she managed to do and give - how great to have met her! (and good for ao3 helping to ensure that her work is preserved.)

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