Dept. of Monday Again

[kaffy_r]

Bits and Bobs and Tiny Tornadoes

I kept meaning to post, and check on others' posts, all last week. It didn't happen. But the old bicycle beckons and I'm a sucker for checking my balance on it.

ETA: I mentioned links, and didn't include them. Here they are.

Comments

[strannik01]

Anyone who understood that, just as we take down statues of slavers and don't count that as destroying history, we should stop valorizing people like John W. Campbell.

Oh, and should be someone who learns how to pronounce peoples' names because it's the right thing to do, FFS.The name pronunciation I'm kind of more forgiving, considering that there's a total of two non-Russian people in this country who were able to pronounce my name 100% correctly (it requires understanding the distinction between soft consonants and hard consonants, which is simply not a thing that exists in the English language), and I'm dubious about the whole Hugo statuette criticism, but Campbell's politics are pretty well-known, and Michael Moorcock criticized them all the way back in the 1960s, so GRRM praising Campbell, especially in this the year 2020, is inexcusable

[kaffy_r]

The name pronunciation I'm kind of more forgiving, considering that there's a total of two non-Russian people in this country who were able to pronounce my name 100% correctlyOh, I definitely understand the difficulty in conquering names - but the convention apparently sent phonetic pronunciation guides out ahead of time. He claims he didn't get all of the guides, which strikes me as ... possibly not accurate, let's leave it at that. And since some of the award announcements were pre-recorded, the convention should have noted at least some of his mispronunciations and required him to correct them

[strannik01]

Oh, I'm not letting GRRM completely off the hook. I do think that one should at least make a good effort, especially when one is a host of a major event, and he has... clearly fallen short of that.

It sounds like your return home had was, as my Grandma Tanya would have said, full of adventures. And I'm impressed that Bob managed to sleep through much of a hurricane.

[kaffy_r]

And I'm impressed that Bob managed to sleep through much of a hurricane.

He was a little dumbfounded himself!