Making Light :: Salaam Pax is back :: comments http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html#comments Language, fraud, folly, truth, history, and knitting. Et cetera. en Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:47:27 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.261 Salaam Pax is back From his weblog, Where Is Raed?: Today while going thru Karada street I saw a sign saying “Send and receive... From his weblog, Where Is Raed?: Today while going thru Karada street I saw a sign saying “Send and receive... http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html Salaam Pax is back -- comment #1 from Kate Nepveu comment from Kate Nepveu on 8.May.03 When he kvetches, he sounds just like my friends.

Yes. I was boggled to hear that some people were questioning his "authenticity": he just sounds so much like a person to me that it never occurred to me.

]]> <p>Posted May 8, 2003 8:50 AM by Kate Nepveu</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html#20440 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html#20440 Thu, 08 May 2003 08:50:15 -0500 Salaam Pax is back -- comment #2 from sennoma comment from sennoma on 8.May.03 You know, Kate, while reading the most recent entries I found myself wondering for the first time whether SP is genuine. He sounds too much like my friends. I don't really think he's a fake -- there are plenty of reasonable explanations for the way he sounds -- but there was something indefinably "off" about those catchup entries. Did anyone else have that feeling, or is it just me?

]]> <p>Posted May 8, 2003 11:49 AM by sennoma</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html#20445 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html#20445 Thu, 08 May 2003 11:49:12 -0500 Salaam Pax is back -- comment #3 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 8.May.03 Yes. It's slightly off. I can't tell why. I can imagine reasons for that, but they'd all be non-falsifiable and unnecessarily multiplied entities. I'll watch and wait and keep reading.

]]> <p>Posted May 8, 2003 12:22 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html#20451 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html#20451 Thu, 08 May 2003 12:22:42 -0500 Salaam Pax is back -- comment #4 from John Isbell comment from John Isbell on 8.May.03 Well, I've read just fragments of his post-invasion entries, but I did notice that many American journalists have sounded different since 9/11. As Theresa points out, people's tone can change, and having your city invaded might do it.
I guess I'll have to look and make my own mind up.

]]> <p>Posted May 8, 2003 3:19 PM by John Isbell</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html#20459 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html#20459 Thu, 08 May 2003 15:19:57 -0500 Salaam Pax is back -- comment #5 from Chad Orzel comment from Chad Orzel on 9.May.03 I was never a very regular reader of his blog, but the big update did look a little different than the previous stuff. I think it was mostly an editing thing, though-- those entries seemed a little more polished than his usual stuff. Which isn't actually that surprising if you think about it-- if I were stuck for weeks with blog entries I couldn't actually upload, I'd fiddle with them endlessly, and the end result would look and sound different than my usual output.

The new stuff that's up there this morning looks much more like what I recall him posting in the past.

]]> <p>Posted May 9, 2003 7:50 AM by Chad Orzel</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html#20478 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html#20478 Fri, 09 May 2003 07:50:55 -0500 Salaam Pax is back -- comment #6 from Kevin Andrew Murphy comment from Kevin Andrew Murphy on 10.May.03 I agree with Chad. The new entries read like the old Salam. The drop-in of the twenty odd entries read a bit different, as if edited and polished, and also written by someone in a somewhat different headspace. Which is what I'd expect during the actual bombing.

]]> <p>Posted May 10, 2003 3:07 AM by Kevin Andrew Murphy</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html#20512 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html#20512 Sat, 10 May 2003 03:07:05 -0500 Salaam Pax is back -- comment #7 from Jon Meltzer comment from Jon Meltzer on 11.May.03 Turns out Salam is a William Gibson fan.

http://dearraed.blogspot.com/2003_05_01_dear_raed_archive.html#200265616

]]> <p>Posted May 11, 2003 12:32 AM by Jon Meltzer</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html#20532 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html#20532 Sun, 11 May 2003 00:32:06 -0500 Salaam Pax is back -- comment #8 from Gerard comment from Gerard on 18.Sep.03 I think Salaam Pax is a fraud. I heard him on the radio and he is a native speaker of English affecting a false Arabic accent. In my opinion, he is definitely a native speaker of English, raised in America.

]]> <p>Posted September 18, 2003 3:34 PM by Gerard</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html#28204 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html#28204 Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:34:55 -0500 Salaam Pax is back -- comment #9 from Teresa Nielsen Hayden comment from Teresa Nielsen Hayden on 18.Sep.03 Your ear is of course your own, Gerard. What's your background?

]]> <p>Posted September 18, 2003 3:47 PM by Teresa Nielsen Hayden</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html#28206 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/002606.html#28206 Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:47:27 -0500