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BESW
BESW
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Bookworm
Bookworm
7:14 AM
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Q: what would a term for diminishing of magic, diversity, beauty, and power be?

RubberDucky4444I am trying to figure out what the proper literary term would be for the following description. In many books and films there is a theme where the world is or was full of magic and beauty and then that age ends and the following is more mundane. Sometimes this is accompanied due to results of a...

terminology literary-device
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
@Bookworm migrate to ELU
 
 
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Bookworm
Bookworm
8:45 AM
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Q: A book about a clock keeper

MirteThis is a dodgy question as I have few details about this book, however: I am trying to find a book that was already around in the 1990s and famous enough to be translated into Dutch. (It wasn't a Dutch book but was read in the Netherlands, in Dutch, around then). Its main character was a clock...

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Mithrandir
Mithrandir
10:47 AM
I was just wondering about the 'Truly! Twas...' quote in your profile, @Emrakul. I Googled it, and apparently it's from a 2012 contest. Hmm. Interesting.
 
 
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Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
1:08 PM
@Mithrandir By the way, thanks for the edit on that Tom Sawyer question. I was all for downvoting it to hell and then deleting it, but you managed to uncover the good parts. (@Hamlet Thanks to you too)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
@Gallifreyan sometimes you have to have a comment discussion to uncover the question :) thanks.
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
yesterday, by Gallifreyan
@Bookworm Is this guy joking?
I wasn't sure if he's a troll.
 
 
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Bookworm
Bookworm
4:46 PM
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Q: Why did Shakespeare write in iambic pentameter?

SleepingGodShakespeare is incredible famous for writing a lot in iambic pentameter. But why did he choose to write in this specific style of having ten beats and 5 stressed syllables per line, considering it was not at all a requirement for plays at the time and many poets wrote in a completely different me...

poetry william-shakespeare
 
 
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Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
7:54 PM
So, is anyone readying any questions for the challenge? :)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
@Gallifreyan unfortunately, not now - busy. But Rand is back, so maybe he'll have some questions for the challenge.
 
Hamlet
Hamlet
@Gallifreyan I tried the challenge, but I found it to be an incredibly boring read (and I enjoy reading oral literature)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
@Bookworm still not sure what he means by 'why'
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
8:12 PM
 
 
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Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
9:59 PM
I proposed to have graphic-novel as a synonym to comics here.
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
I was thinking about that recently.
 
Riker
Riker
not all comics are novels though
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
We have a question about this...:)
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Q: How are graphic novels different from comic books?

Ankit SharmaI always get confused between the terms comic-book and graphic novel. What makes a comic-book be referred to as Graphic novel? What is the difference between both of the terms?

terminology comics
 
user15026
@Gallifreyan not all comics are graphic novels and vice versa
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
10:15 PM
@Ash I know :D; but since the division is somewhat arbitrary, and all graphic novels are surely a subset of comics, I thought collecting the former under the latter is the good choice, as opposed to having graphic-novels spring up a month later with just one question and a debate on what is a graphic novel and what isn't.
 
user15026
@Gallifreyan I don't think that is a good reason to do it.
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
Should we then leave graphic novels to hang by themselves? A separate tag?
 
user15026
Why not?
 
Gallifreyan
Gallifreyan
Then what is a graphic novel and what is not? I'm not aware of the existence of an all-encompassing definition which would separate the two.
In our specific case, right now, every question with comics is eligible for graphic-novels as well (well, except 2 or 3).
Hm. We should probably chuck manga in as well. Anyway, I'll write up two meta posts tomorrow.
Gotta sleep now.
 
BESW
BESW
11:22 PM
The Bering Strait Theory Is First Title For Indian Country Books http://buff.ly/2qLV84x https://t.co/f6gM7vHVp7
Tweeted by indiancountry on May 21, 2017 at 8:23 PM
 
Gilles
Gilles
11:42 PM
@BESW wow, that description is almost caricatural anti-science conspiracy theory stuff
is it in line with the book, or is it a very bad advertisement?
 
BESW
BESW
Over the last few years there've been a number of interesting archaeological discoveries which cast doubt on the Bering Strait migration theory.
Many Native Americans tribes have always held that the Bering Strait theory is inaccurate, and recent scientific discoveries have also supported other previously dismissed Native American understandings about the history of their areas.
And while I don't know specifically about the idea that the Bering Strait has more academic inertia than the strength of its evidence would justify, I know that's true of plenty of other scientific concepts--especially ones with sociological implications.
So, I don't know anything about that book outside the article I linked, but I wouldn't say it sounds like conspiracy theory fodder.
There's an ongoing worldwide discourse about reconciling Western scientific epistemologies with other ways of knowing, and this looks like another part of that conversation.
The idea that academia would ignore challenges to a popular theory, or be reluctant to brook changing a concept in the face of new evidence for any number of reasons, is not anti-science; it's an established flaw in the academic model.
 

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