My Latin these days is too weak to be much help, but this must be the right place. Googling "make me" Latin imperative brings a Making Light thread up as the first result.
Oh,that Hawaiian one is great. Here everyone knows Pukeko in a Ponga Tree and more recently and commercially "Kiwi in a Kauri Tree" but they aren't a patch on that.
It doesn't begin to compare to the careful detailing of fictional fiction (thanks for that fascinating link, Lucy) but I haven't seen this posted here and thought it might be of interest.
Old English for computers
It appears entirely as little squares in mine. I was wondering if this is what disemvowelling looks like when our hosts are out of town.
And Yahoo have finally caught up with it:
The link now goes to a blank photospace with this caption:
"To our readers: This photo was removed from Yahoo! News at the request of AFP.
Yahoo! News statement on photo language controversy."
which links to this:
http://news.yahoo.com/page/photostatement
Seems to me that it really depends on what alphabetization rules you use. I'm inclined to string together some rules from the Chicago Manual of Style and say the answer would be 101.
But that's partly because I really don't want to know if there are primes that begin eight billion ...
Is it this one?
http://www.livejournal.com/users/tobycraig/29223.html
It had only just dropped off the bottom of the visible particles list.
Erm, Philadelphia was supposed to be the largest English speaking city after London at the time of the American Revolution. I can't find any related claims for Boston.
Heh, when I first took it I was trying for Ursula Le Guin and got Cordwainer Smith. Took two adjustments to get Le Guin, the second of which felt wrong.
I'm guessing this might be a version of the story Tom was linking to:
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=81&story_id=18331&name=Spain's+self-proclaimed+'pope'+dies+at+58
Found it by Googling Spanish Pope
The photoshoppers are indeed quick - although I believe this one dates to April 13th.
http://metaphorge.cyber1a.net/livejournal/ratzinger.gif
My memory of Coma, which I think I read once while babysitting, was that it was just a medical thriller. Nothing outside current technology. You could say it was a whatif kinda of a story, but it's really pushing it. Whereas this book posits a different reality where biotech advanced faster than nuclear tech in the post war period. That sure fits a lot of definitions of science fiction.
I work in a medical Library. I'm not going to begin on the "the book I'm looking for is red" stories. There are times I really wish they wouldn't change the colour with each new edition.
Has anyone read Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go"? I'm looking at the book review of it in the 9th of April Lancet which states that "it does not attempt to be science fiction". Given that the rest of the review suggests the book is an alternate history in which we have already perfected cloning, I get the impression that it has nevertheless succeeded.
Possibly the reviewer can't believe it could be science fiction because he believes it deserves to win the Booker?
*is irritated*
Looks like this compilation affected your search results
Wow, adding a hyphen really can change someone.
There is already Goofus and Gallant slash out there, it was only my second introduction to G and G, the first was also a parody. I'm presuming I saw it on lj, where someone recently proposed the Quantum Theory of Fanfic, "that the act of suggesting a pairing causes it to already have been written."
"I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of imagination."
Ooh! This is a good game.
"Emma Woodhouse, handsome clever and rich, with a comfortable home and a happy disposition..."
(in fact Pride and Prejudice is the only one that doesn't drop someone's name in the first sentence)
"When Mr Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating..." (admittedly it's a sequel and I skipped the prologue)
"'Come home, Tenar, come home.'" (okay, technically another sequel, but the original wasn't about Tenar).
"Roger, aged seven, and no longer the youngest of the family..."
"My father's family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer than Pip."
"'Do come out of that dream, Moril,' Lenina said."
"Stavia saw herself as in a picture, from the outside..."
I'm going to stop now, because there are other things I should be doing.
There's a copy of the original academic article available for free.
http://www.sociology.ohio-state.edu/jwm/chains.pdf
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