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Mayu Misono fällt in ihrer Klasse durch ihr etwas merkwürdiges Verhalten auf, aber ihr dunkles Geheimnis kennt niemand. Aufsehenerregende Morde …
Content warning Precious Lies, what
Die Szene auf Seite 30, ich habe erst gedacht, das wäre eine Rückblende. Machste ne Schranktür auf, sitzen da zwei vermisst, entführte Kinder. Machste die Tür wieder zu. What.
Mayu Misono fällt in ihrer Klasse durch ihr etwas merkwürdiges Verhalten auf, aber ihr dunkles …
Content warning Precious Lies, allgemein
Doch nicht mein Stil. Messerstecher, Serienmörder, Kindesentführung, traumatisierte Jugendliche die allein gelassen werden statt bei Pflegeeltern oder den Großeltern aufzuwachsen. Und dann ist alles so, … ja nee. Scheint in der Welt zwar traumatisch, aber nicht weiter erwähnenswert zu sein.
Dto. Oxford Style Manual: British not German. OSM, via Houston: »fragments of up to three letters are frowned upon« Detailtypografie (should’v looked up the -fie for the quote above) still frowns upon one letter fragments, allowed in the new German spelling rules, but leaving two on the old line and putting three on the new line is OK by Forsmann & De Jong.
In Shady Characters, Keith Houston weaves a fascinating trail through the nooks and crannies …
The Chicago Manual of Style( …) suggests that hyphenating more than three lines in a row is undesirable (…), yet Gunenberg managed ladders of eight consecutive hyphens.
— Shady Characters by Keith Houston (Page 130 - 131)
Well, CMS is an Usonian style book. Let’s look up rules for German: »Mehrere Trennungen hintereinander sind natürlich nicht erwünscht, aber zu dulden« »Several hyphenations in a row are obviously not desirable, but to be tolerated.« (Detailtypographie, Forssman & De Jong, 8th ed., p. 130)
In Shady Characters, Keith Houston weaves a fascinating trail through the nooks and crannies …
The asterisk and obelus (…) Eck’s Obelisci and Luther’s Asterisci
— Shady Characters by Keith Houston (Page 104 - 106)
A whole chapter on the asterisk and obelus. In a book with a conversational tone that is full of popular culture references. Yu see that this book is where Usonian, or rather non-European. At the end of the chapter we get an astersik and comic connection. … to Donesbury. What. Really, what other comic connection could there be for asterisx and obelus? Ils sont fous, ces Américains !
The Silkworm is a 2014 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the …
I ges the author just went full TERF after this. So, yeah, there is transfobic stuff in there, but i’m not sure it is beyond what yu would get from the standard British transfobe.
Anyway. The rest of the book. My main complaint is that it is too long. Like the author was too famous to be be properly edited. Pretty much every paragraf should hav been edited down to half the length and about half the senes cut outright. For a 100 page crime novella it could hav worked. At this length yu ar expecting something more than a standard whodunit, but no, that is all yu get.
The Silkworm is a 2014 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It is …
Singularity Sky is a science fiction novel by author Charles Stross, published in 2003. It …
So, mostly a fun SciFi story, with callbacks to late 19th and early 20th century naval and general history.
The things that cost it a star for me are an number of smaller annoyances. The bits with the old admiral i didn’t like. There was generally too much going on, with the different factions attached to the festival. The romance subplot felt stitched on and could have been dropped.
Singularity Sky is a science fiction novel by author Charles Stross, published in 2003. It was nominated for the Hugo …
Content warning Gridlock McGuffin
Ah. The McGuffin in the book is a patent for a hidrogen motor. Bah. A patent isn’t the same as a working device. And the engine is the smallest problem of going from fossil fuel to hydrogen. You actually want to mix yur fuel well with the air, which is easy when it’s a gas.
I only skipt thru thus, but the stile of this wasn’t about discussing actual problems like these, so i’m reasonably sure they were ignored, like these: • Where to get the energy from? Solar something, sure, maybe wind and hidro. Take a look at how hard it is to ramp that up quickly enuf • When yur idea is to plaster over a desert with solar panels, than you actually will have a problem of getting water to electrolize • Then we get to storage and transport. • Including storage that fits in a car
So, yeah, this is a silly little comedy bit, not really deserving of the name satire, while it could hav delt with it in a much more in depth manner. As satire, sure.
In Shady Characters, Keith Houston weaves a fascinating trail through the nooks and crannies …
Content warning Eric Gill reference
Yeah, no. Sticking in just one paragraf on Eric Gill the person doesn’t compensate for the hagiografy of the rest of the preface and pilcrow chapter. That could have been written differently. Start with just plain stating that you want to separate the work from the artist. Btw, you can use e.g. Humanist 521 or Dover Sans when you want a tipeface that looks like Gill Sans but without the name stuck on it. Much like Nimbus Sans and a ton of other non-Helvetica Helveticas.
In Shady Characters, Keith Houston weaves a fascinating trail through the nooks and crannies …
John Glenn became the first American, and only the second human, to reach orbit;
— Shady Characters by Keith Houston (Page 25)
Shady research! Wikipedia: Gherman (…) Titov (…) was a Soviet cosmonaut who, on 6 August 1961, became the second human to orbit the Earth
In Shady Characters, Keith Houston weaves a fascinating trail through the nooks and crannies of typographical history, from the …
