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The Reveal: How Public is Private?
How private is a weblog? How much do you choose to reveal about yourself? And what's the point.
:: STARTED BY Lilith Myth
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:34 03.06.03
Hospitals and waiting lists
how do you deal with waiting lists that may or may not have a space for you on them when it's something that is really bugging you?
:: STARTED BY telyn
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:32 03.06.03
Maybe I'm being naive but...
Barbelith. Credit where it's due.
:: STARTED BY waxy dan
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:42 03.06.03
What's a weekend worth in NYC?
Help me make an enjoyable trip to NYC enough to consider me staying there on a more permanent basis...
:: STARTED BY netbanshee
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:31 03.06.03
The gooseberry appreciation society.
Rhubarb. Kiwi. And now... GOOSEBERRIES.
You'll thank me for this one day. Don't pull that face. They're good for you. If you don't eat your gooseberries now, you'll get them again for brekfast.
:: STARTED BY Less searchable M0rd4nt
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:32 02.06.03
Late Shift Sixteen: Look, a bunny!
Look! Rabbits!
:: STARTED BY The Return Of Rothkoid
:: 279 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:15 01.06.03
Life
Checking up on Barbelith
:: STARTED BY Mike
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:16 01.06.03
How Are You?
whats your blood full of?
whats your brain struggling with?
how much of your posting life is coloured by your substance choices?
has anyone ever tried posting while hallucinating?
did it go horribly worng, or hideaously right?
:: STARTED BY Char Aina
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 04:11 01.06.03
Thatcher and bunnies and fire...Oh MY!
No summary available
:: STARTED BY Helmschmied
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:29 31.05.03
Do you like to be liked?
Do you like to be liked in work and personal life? Or do you not give a tinker's cuss what people think about you?
:: STARTED BY Sax
:: 18 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:10 31.05.03
Which Superhero? Slightly more serious than you might think...
Which superperson someone is - but consider carefully.
:: STARTED BY We're The Great Old Ones Now
:: 87 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:35 30.05.03
I saw a real live tiger!
I saw a real live tiger! Share the tigrrific joy!
:: STARTED BY Ethan Hawke
:: 22 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:32 30.05.03
...and I'm out.
Paleface finishes his finals. This is good.
:: STARTED BY The Strobe
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:12 30.05.03
Things we don't talk about enough
Don't care how ill-though-out the idea - just spill
:: STARTED BY Kit-Cat Club
:: 39 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:13 30.05.03
Attn: London 'lithers: Help a Sista Out???
Ms. Mononoke is moving to London in June and needs *your* help!
:: STARTED BY Mono
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:08 30.05.03
Creating a new language/alphabet
How to make a realistic language for your imaginary civilization.
:: STARTED BY Less searchable M0rd4nt
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:04 29.05.03
The ‘Pride of Barbelith’ Awards
The Pride of Barbelith Awards - a thread for nominating people on their posting techniques, personalities and general board behaviour.
Any category acceptable for inclusion, but you must specify why you nominate.
:: STARTED BY Olulabelle
:: 60 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:41 29.05.03
Mac OS9/OSX networking help
How to force Macs to play nice.
:: STARTED BY some guy
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:14 29.05.03
Swapping turbans for cagouls
Trainspotters: international menace to life and limb, or harmless eccentrics?
:: STARTED BY Lullaboozler
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:11 29.05.03
"I'd like to take you outside and shoot you".
Uncle Tel would like a word.
:: STARTED BY Regrettable Juvenilia
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:47 29.05.03
Domain registration
No summary available
:: STARTED BY Rage
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:06 29.05.03
A.I. got a reason to live?
AIs - why do they bother?
:: STARTED BY that
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 05:25 29.05.03
Fucking fucking fucking quotation marks fucking AAAARGH
When I am dictator of the universe, all will be <i>oratio obliqua</i>.
Allow me to explain.
The humble inverted comma is <i>ruining my life</i>. Here I am, a professional writer, one who makes a living, if you can call it living, from the work of words, placed in order (if you can call it work).
Now, recently I find myself in the world of direct speech. Fowler states, although he recognises the controversy, that the single inverted comma is the traditional way to open and close direct quotation, and that quotations within the quotation use the double inverted comma. Thus:
Haus said, 'You are a cock. As is the scabrous filthbeast occasionally and with the soul of abbreviation described by the sailors whose foullest whorehouses she frequents as "your mother".'
The Oxford Guide to English Usage concurs.
Now, instinct, because I was taught by fools, tells me rather that one should use the double quotation mark at the start of <i>oratio recta</i>, and never was an arsing thing so well titled, and the single within, thus drawing attention to the directness of the speech at the start and end with the bolder mark. Fowler admits of this possibly.
This ambiguity has percolated around my head for a decade now and it's DOING MY PLUMS.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
"FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK," he said.
'To use his own vernacular, what a "fucking pile of shit",' opined Algy.
Thank you for listening.
:: STARTED BY ONLY NICE THINGS
:: 90 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:54 29.05.03
A serious situation and a call for advice.
A serious situation that I need help with.
:: STARTED BY Undecided
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:03 29.05.03
Any theories?
when writing this topic I had in mind those theories that you come up with when you have too much time on your hands.. but really, meander away.. Its alll good!
:: STARTED BY Ninjas make great pets
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:23 28.05.03
Actually
Words you keep using (involuntarily) but which really annoy you
:: STARTED BY Kit-Cat Club
:: 42 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:42 28.05.03
Is Barbelith...
Clang associations on the theme of "dying". It's all Haus' fault, he started it. Naughty Haus.
:: STARTED BY Less searchable M0rd4nt
:: 55 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:28 28.05.03
Barbelith Stars In Their Eyes
Who would you be on <i>Stars In Their Eyes</i>?
:: STARTED BY that
:: 25 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:16 28.05.03
Learning greek
Learning greek: How?
:: STARTED BY gingerbop
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:58 28.05.03
The Union Jack, flowing gently in the breeze.
The Union Jack flag. What does it mean to you?
:: STARTED BY Sax
:: 42 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:08 27.05.03
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