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Apostrophes are often misused or left out. It's really irritating when it happens.

Username = Heliomance, funnily enough!

But I am going to be working on standardising volume across the entire thing, so hopefully it'll be fixed.

Which meant that I ended up having to turn up the volume to hear the Exposition and then had to quickly pull my headphones off when both channels started, randomly, blaring. *rubs ears* Yeow.

And it was just 'Multiverse' said perhaps one too many times in very close proximity to itself. I notice that kind of thing, but one supposes that there aren't many synonyms, so... *shrug* Just thinking about a rule I read once, that anything but pronouns and proper nouns shouldn't be repeated within fifteen words. So a repeat within three seemed like too much. However, if that's how it was written, I'll leave it alone.


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... it's only one-channel, but said one-channel ought to come out of both of your speakers.

As to phrasing of lines - the dialogue in almost every case is exactly how it was written by various people during the RP :) We didn't want to fiddle with the original material at all if we could help it.

Username = ElJenn

I have to have you as my buddy for you to be able to see me, though.

~Neshomeh

But for most of the audio I only get audio through one speaker (one-channel audio, or whatever). I... don't think that's a good thing.

And I have to say that I imagined most people's voices differently, that's my problem and I'm not very good at imagining voices, so...

And I'd make a commentary on some phrasing, but since the lines have been recorded it would be kinda stupid. So I'ma going to go away now.

There's a furniture warehouse in my city called "My Mate Johns". It makes me want to tear my hair out.

On the other hand, I like dropping the full stop after "Mr" and "Mrs" - otherwise it's far too easy to misread it as the end of a sentence. As for saints... bleh. Same story, I guess.

*hands around the buckets of paint* Forward, march!

I've only sporked the first chapter so far. Do you have any kind of IM I can get hold of you over?

It's such a useful critter. Clears up so much potential ambiguity, and yet is so unappreciated. And who even knows about the en-dash? Is it weird that I suddenly want plush punctuation marks just so I can cuddle the poor unloved things?

~Neshomeh, who doesn't even think without punctuation.

Trojie occasionally gets suborned into helping out with other departments - she's definitely either volunteered for, been pressganged into or simply refused to leave missions belonging to the Department of Angst, Department of Mary Sues and Department of Floaters. But she's never actually changed her Department.

Basically you can pretty much switch your agents round departments as much as you like within reason, although some of the smaller departments (WTF, FicPsych, and a few others) operate under the auspices of one particular Boarder and they might like you to ask before you throw your Agent into their sandpit, as it is.

was just curious. this is not PPC canon, right?

exswyzie14 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com

That's a crossover I can't resist. I'm almost afraid to know how the Young Wizards canon got dragged into it. {= P All I ask is that you have patience with me. I like to be thorough and I don't always have the kind of time I need.

~Neshomeh

Dropping the . after Mr and Mrs is one of those examples of language evolving, similar to how we're currently in the process of doing away with the hyphen. Saint, however, is only ever shortened in street names (well, and actual saints' names, but who ever writes about those?), so one can't really make quite the same argument for dropping the punctuation.

I'd have to go round all the local pubs too. Within three minutes' walk from here are "Queens", "Nags Head", and "St Johns". And buggered if I'm defacing the latter, because it's my local.

As I'm working with time constraints, I was effectively out as soon as people stopped taking turns. We can just assume my two gave up and slammed the door on the whole mess. ... Except not really slam, because it's a Star Trek sliding door. {= P

~Neshomeh

1. Kd8?? Ke1++

I always wondered about the lack of full stops in abbreviations like that. St., Mr., all those sorts of things. I figured it was just one of those British usage things.

I say go out there with some bright red paint and mark in the appropriate punctuation. And make some angry phone calls to whoever sends letters addressed like that.

~Neshomeh

I was looking for an excuse to get them out of there anyway.

hS

Knowledge of the LoTR canon would be highly appreciated, as I know far less about that than about the other two.

"Sure. let's head to the way. Although, Storm, did you want to just mess with it instead, see if we can fix this withotu the techinicans?"

It always drives me mad when my post is addressed to "St Augustines". There should be a full stop and an apostrophe in there.

(( *is being horribly tempted by this thread* ))

... when all's said and done, we're comfy here :)

Oookay, then. That makes sense, in the same way that my bed is actually a tiger. *rolls eyes*