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Some people also want to PPC things like Harry Potter, Discworld, Doom, Doctor Who, MASH, LotR, etc.

What's the difference between PPCing a fanfic in one of those fandoms and Eragon?

...nothing much original, except for the Lethrblaka. Mini-Lethrblaka, then?

But what other monsters does the Inheritanceverse have? Anything particularly iconic?

let`s see. November of first year of university. That would be in 2002. Wow.

Leto

(and it looks like that number keeps going up...)

It really wasn't my intention to offend anyone. I mean that. Please don't hate me. I just intended to answer the question as best I could, and by the look of things I messed up and wound up offending a lot of people.

I really am sorry.

That makes sense.

You could well have done; I know I picked up some weird grammar off my dad. Do any of your local friends use similar constructions? And, if you don't mind me asking, what geographical area is that?

The bugger of it is that there actually are well-documented links between class and grammatical deviations from standard. Never bothered me, but then, I'm English. We're practically born with an understanding and acceptance of class here.

Random informtative fact of the day: One of the biggest effects on whether one's grammar is non-standard is actually only indirectly related to money - it's level of education. Of course, this gets blurred to some extent these days thanks to access to global media, and it's certainly going to be blurred amongst people you meet round here thanks to online influences on us all. But there was a section on my sociolinguistics exam last year which involved some data collected a few decades ago. Said data demonstrated no or very few non-standard grammatical forms in people (who knew they were being recorded to have their idiolect analysed) who were university educated, with a sliding scale down to consistent deviations in over half the grammatical constructions being analysed from people who never made it past the eleven-plus. And, if memory serves, it also demonstrated that amongst the working classes or the less educated, women deviate less than men, but amongst the highly educated or the upper classes, men deviate less than women.

I think the point of that ramble was "class is a loaded word so sociolinguists tend to avoid it".

I've been here since early '06.

...then try to imagine how awful the badfic must be.

A Star Wars 'fic in which the 'Sue unexplainably has Dragon Rider ties, and spells a few names wrong. Therefore, the minis would be Eragon minis and not mini-Rancors.

I would like to point out that we're all taught the English language, and it's personal choice. My lower middle-class grammar is just fine, thanks, and I know plenty of people wealthier than I who speak as if they've never been to an English class.

Narnia already has mini-dragons, so we'll find something else.

I know it's late, I'm sorry. Here, have an otter plushie! And some chocolate cake! ^_^

What are they?

If a host does die on us, we can probably email the text to whomever needs it.

My sincerest apologies. I had no intent of insulting anyone.

Aw man, now I've reverted to Commiespeak.

Seriously? I think I know what you're trying to say, but 1) I strongly disagree, you're confusing demographics here, and 2) as July said, you're walking pretty close to the edge when you start talking about Boarders' classes.

...for my periodic gmail plug. Not only do Trojie and I keep our missions on livejournal, which isn't likely to go under, they're also all stored in google documents, accessible anywhere and not at the mercy of hardware failures. I suppose it's possible for google to under, but I can't see it happening any time soon. Plus you'll never have to play word document ping pong again!

Ah, that makes sense. Just putting in my 2 cents.

I didn't even start the trail that led, among other places, to the PP...il sometime in '04. I know I knew about this place by the time I graduated in June '05, but the first time I accessed the Board was November/December '06.

That generally things like that should be left open to someone who will actually be writing in those divisions or involving those Flowers; not everything needs to be decided at once, and not everything needs to be decided or suggested by one person.

Just because it's unknown doesn't mean we have to fill it out immediately.

I don't know if PPC continuity established on The Board is "official" or not, but I noticed that the Heads of several Divisions are unknown. So, for your approval, I'd like to submit some suggestions for Heads, and if you like them, would they be considered canon?

They are:

Historical Inaccuracies Division - Saffron Crocus (moved here when its department closed)
Timeline Distortions Division - Pitcher Plant

Physics Division - Kelp (mentioned once in the lone Department of Bad Parody story and hasn't been seen since)
Trans-Normal Accountancy Division - Raffelesia

The remaining two, DAVD Intelligence and DAVD Medical, will be revealed in Chliever and Winston's next mission, in which they visit Medical.

What does the all-knowing Board think?