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| (...) But it's only at its best wiv a PROpper INGlish accent mate, nartymean?. (Coming to Gosport btw?) Anyway, I've got to hoover the floor... And another thing, it's "attendees" that really winds me up. It's not a word, and it's the wrong way (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I just don't remember it being so bluntly obvious as the Iron Tower trilogy was. Perhaps there was some difference in frame of mind when I read them (but note that I did read the Iron Tower trilogy much later than I did Sword of Shanara, and (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Brooks had scene-for-scene, character-for-character matches (in the same sequence as LOTR) - geez, a fellowship with four little guys, one dwarf, one elf, two men, and a wizard, for heaven's sake. He just added new names, and that was about (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) But the Iron Tower trilogy which was written to give the base series for the later books to rest on had incredible correlation with Lord of the Rings. It seemed like every major scene had a parallel in Lord of the Rings. FUT: (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) This is effectively what I've done, though my CD collection is an order of magnitude smaller. I basically set up an encoder to encode as I played them, and eventually pretty much everything was on the hard disk. As I get new CDs, I play them (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I have a colleague who wrote a rather good book about the survey of India, where he specifically addressed the issue with respect to the plural of "Surveyor General." According to orthodoxy plural should be "Surveyors General," but he (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) The colloquial singular saying is "Roller"; therefore in this case one could possess many Rollers, if one was very affluent. I've never really heard anyone seriously refer to a collection of Rollers as "Rolls-Royce's"; what is perhaps more (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Frank, (...) Indeed. (...) Ah, I see. I certainly like my Minidiscs for work and driving. No skip, editable, etc. It is a really neat item. I know some might not like the compression, btu I am not a music major, it is good enough for me (no offense (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) The problem for me would be that I'd definitely need three (and depending on just how many of my albums are double CDs, I might have to trim to fit in 3, I suspect I'm only about 800 CDs though, I've got about 700 albums). Another hassle (...) (24 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Sure. I can see the point if you do this and you're gonna use it multiple times *within a single document* (lawyers do it all the time!), and you can even do it using a glossary. What I detest is people who use an acronym *ONCE* and follow it (...) (24 years ago, 21-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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