Back in the saddle
Aug. 5th, 2010 03:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdI took a hiatus while my back was out. Wasn't long enough.
You have biked 276 miles.
You have passed Deep in the wild, south of the Great Road.
It is 10 miles to the next landmark.
You have 182 miles to reach Rivendell.
The land before them sloped away southwards, but it was wild and pathless; bushes and stunted trees grew in dense patches with wide barren spaces in between. The grass was scanty, coarse, and grey; and the leaves in the thickets were faded and falling. It was a cheerless land, and their journey was slow and gloomy.
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Around and about the net:
Fox news has a poll about Prop 8.
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Tor has Best and worst job prospects in Urban Fantasy.
#13 Bartender. Why? See jobs 1-12.
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The Importance of World Building in Steampunk Believeable world is a better story than messy one
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A bit about the gay slang, Polari, and links to a lexicon of it.
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Firearms for fictioneers. For those of us who are not shooters.
You have biked 276 miles.
You have passed Deep in the wild, south of the Great Road.
It is 10 miles to the next landmark.
You have 182 miles to reach Rivendell.
The land before them sloped away southwards, but it was wild and pathless; bushes and stunted trees grew in dense patches with wide barren spaces in between. The grass was scanty, coarse, and grey; and the leaves in the thickets were faded and falling. It was a cheerless land, and their journey was slow and gloomy.
~~~
Around and about the net:
Fox news has a poll about Prop 8.
~~~
Tor has Best and worst job prospects in Urban Fantasy.
#13 Bartender. Why? See jobs 1-12.
~~~
The Importance of World Building in Steampunk Believeable world is a better story than messy one
~~~
A bit about the gay slang, Polari, and links to a lexicon of it.
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Firearms for fictioneers. For those of us who are not shooters.
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Next Thursday, I'll be talking on the Writing Truckers episode of Freewheelin'. If you have satellite radio, check it out on the RoadDog, 11 AM Eastern
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Hmmm...
Date: 2010-08-05 09:07 pm (UTC)"Mince", for example, for "to walk affectedly", doesn't seem like much of a leap from "mincing,", meaning "affectedly dainty", or "walking with short steps", which dates back to the 1520's. "Khazi" for toilet comes up at dictionary.com as 19th century English. I went over to the main lexicon site, and some of it seems to be lifted straight from Romany, some from thieves' cant, British school slang, Italian, Spanish, rhyming slang, Yiddish, whatever could be crammed in. I wonder how secret is really was. There were probably plenty of times when people speaking Polari thought they were being mysterious while folks around them could understand every word.