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5:05 AM
Writing a lecture on argumentation and rhetoric. Found my all-time favourite request from an overzealous technical… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/893881290038140928
The Aeslin mice have a Twitter! ...which has been dormant for years.
 
5:48 AM
'Amnesia' (detail) by contemporary mixed media artist Lisa Kokin, using thread & text from Rachel Carson's book 'Si… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/894434711203971073
 
 
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10:51 AM
yesterday, by Gallifreyan
@Bookworm I'm not sure about the title tag: , , or ?
@Hamlet @Emrakul @Mithrandir It's currently the first one, but I think we need to synonymise the rest to it, and make the most popular one the main. Don't know which on, though.
 
I know nothing about French, personally... But which of the first two are correct/which was it published under?
Although, since we have e.g and not a transliteration of the Japanese...
 
@Mithrandir I'm guessing the second is the full title, and "le" gets dropped often the same way "the" gets dropped in The Lord of The Rings. There's also the English title, but I don't know if it's more known by the English or by the French title.
 
 
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12:09 PM
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Q: Why does Susan say her "eyes are hard" when suffering an emotional breakdown in the Waves (Virginia Woolf)?

virginia123"I love," said Susan, "and I hate. I desire one thing only. My eyes are hard. Jinny's eyes break into a thousand lights. Rhoda's are like those pale flowers to which moths come in the evening. [Bernard's] grow full and brim and never break." Source: The Waves (Virginia Woolf) This describes Sus...

 
12:42 PM
How well do you care for your books? Check out our advice for transporting paperback #books here: https://literature.stackexchange.com/q/3203/481
 
 
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4:10 PM
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Q: Where did the Fables get all those weapons in the first place?

GallifreyanIn the second volume of Fables, Animal Farm, we see that the Fables possess an enormous amount of various firearms: Where did they come from? Snow White states in the first volume that Fables are on a tight budget. She also states most of them couldn't save their wealths from Fable Land when t...

 
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4:44 PM
@Gallifreyan [le-pere-goirot] is the best choice, since that was the original title. Synonyms for the others for sure, though.
 
@Emrakul I'll leave the choice to you ;) Or, if you wish, I can ask on meta.
Looks like we've been there before:
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Q: Translations, and books with different titles with respect to tags

Zizouz212I recently answered my first question on Literature, Yaay! Why does Meursault kill "the Arab" in The Stranger? The question is about a book by Albert Camus. The book was originally written in French, with the title "L'Etranger." Now the French title translates to different things. Many books of...

 
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The real takeaway from that question is that there's no good solution
 
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I'm going to go with this in My Capacity As Moderator, Because It Feels Right and For No Other Reason.
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Also because synonyms are cheap and free, and can be painlessly changed.
 
Good call ;)
 
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5:01 PM
....and I misspelled it. Just my luck.
 
Oof
Well, that's easily fixable
 
5:30 PM
@Gallifreyan i think my meta post said do whatever Wikipedia does (ie use whatever version of the title is most popular in English, and I stand by that) CV @Emrakul
 
 
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6:35 PM
Could I get some eyeballs on This?
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A: Do we want a [plot-explanation] tag?

HamletHere are the reasons why I think that tags such as meaning, symbolism, and the proposed plot-explanation aren't really worth having around. Tags are supposed to help people find questions that they can answer. These tags don't do that. There isn't such a thing as being an expert in meaning, or ...

 
@Hamlet I'm for it.
 
 
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8:16 PM
No women filmmakers mentioned in this article about womanhood and space in cinema. That's about to change.… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/894629080598953985
 
9:05 PM
Michael Scott is such a tease. It's been almost a week since he talked to us, but nothing's come of it yet :/
(Said mostly in jest. He doesn't owe us an answer, but he kinda did imply that he would provide one.)
 
And my bounty expired :(
 
Maybe he was waiting for that, so he could say that he didn't do it for the pointz? :p
 
😔
 
Maybe he's been offline. Doesn't look like his Twitter page changed much over the last week. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
⚡️ “ITV are making a new version of Pride & Prejudice” https://twitter.com/i/moments/894561818131267584
AAAAH ffs there are other novels! Many of them! https://twitter.com/FernRiddell/status/894658849327771648
 
9:11 PM
Ha :)
 
 
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11:30 PM
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Q: Did Rudyard Kipling Write "The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon"?

RustyI came across a poem on a forum, attributed to Rudyard Kipling called "THE WRATH OF THE AWAKENED SAXON" (the title seems to be often posted in caps). A Google search indicates that where posted, this is always attributed to Kipling. My skepticism comes from the fact that it's almost exclusively ...

 

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