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picowrimo2019-11-01 02:17 pm
wiseheart.livejournal.com) wrote in picowrimo2019-11-01 02:17 pm
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November 2019 - Day 1
Well, ladies, let's start this thing once again! Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!
May the magic be with us all!
May the magic be with us all!
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Anyway, snippet:
Dr. Mulhall fingered her tricorder nervously, while looking after the retreating backs of Decker and Ser’hath’trov’dab. The tall, thin man in his burgundy-and-black uniform made an odd couple with the unusually large, ebony black Dairu who still barely reached to his chest. The astrobiologist smiled faintly, forgetting her concerns for a moment… but only for a moment.
“You have no reason to worry,“ Leila Kalomi said, knotting together her long, straight black hair on the nape of her neck. “The XO can take care of himself... and we are, at least, not alone.
“I know,” Ann Mulhall sighed. “And yet… despite the fact that I’ve participated in dozens of planetary missions, I’m more nervous than ever before.”
“Perhaps because this time we can’t count on the reassuring presence of the Enterprise in geosynchronous orbit,” the botanist suggested. “Most Starfleet officers are used to have a starship as back-up, whatever they are doing.”
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Should be HAVING a starship (?)
:^)
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Of course, the more you say them, the more they all sound wrong!
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You should check your papers, perhaps you translated even more and forgot :) How long has it been since you started translating?
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I've started translating this particular story a little more than two years ago. It was originally finished in 1999, at a time when my English was practically nonexistent, so it was written partly in German, partly in Hungarian. Of course, it couldn't be published like that anywhere, but translating from two different languages into a third one is so tedious, that's why I have such long breaks in-between.
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This is an action (star fleet officers are "used to having") that's always been going on and will continue to go on.
I recognized your mistake but I'm finding it very difficult to explain it to you, sorry.
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I'm Hungarian, and our language has exactly three tenses: past, present and future. Everything else is context. It works like a charm. I grew up with German as my second language, starting at the age of 3, and I can handle German tenses without problems. They are logical. Hell, I could even follow French tenses in the half year I was learning French for the heck of it. No problem. English tenses, though...
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There are a lot of native English speakers here in America who never master all the tenses either and they get by without them--more or less.
America's schools have really gone to seed in the past quarter of a century thanks to their trying to make school easy enough that everyone can pass and get a high school diploma.
:^\
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I have nothing to offer regarding English verb syntax except my sympathies as you endeavor to unravel its mysteries.
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An idea that sounds good enough to use to write something.
Such a little thing but for me it's often half the writing battle.
:^)
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I have a dark, dusty drawer filled with dried-out pens and crumpled scraps of paper containing illegible words and phrases which, I dimly recall, were once ideas. May I borrow your gizzard? Hee!
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Thanks for keeping us together!
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I hope the Christmas version goes well :-)
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Thanks!
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A one hour session today on a very old WIP, not the one I worked on during the last time.
I'm using it as a warm-up exercise, to get my wheels greased before I choose a story request for the MFU Down the Chimney exchange.
It ain't prettied up, it's just streaming words:)
(Reflection on the episode in which Napoleon) is caught in a wind tunnel and nearly killed.)
Working Title: Scar
He sat up in bed, covers thrown back, with the sense that he was about to be torn to pieces. Pulverized. He’d taken a chance and turned on the ceiling fan. So romantic. So Casablanca.
Fucking fans.
He got out of bed and crossed the room to the wall switch. Flipped it off. Went to the kitchen. Took the water glass from the sink. Cracked some ice from the tray and dropped them in. Carried the glass to the living room and picked up the whiskey bottle from the drinks cart. Brought it all to the couch. Poured two fingers. What the hell, make it three.
Some injuries don’t leave a scar you can see.
Pico Goal: 60 Minutes over 30 Days for a total of 1,800 Minutes
Progress Meter: 60 / 1,800 minutes. 3% done!
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That is a great sentence!
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An odder memorial is the one built into the window of the co-op nearby - a clock like a globe and a rather elegant explorer against a background which is presumably intended to be African, but looks more like a Scottish island with added palm trees.
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And remind us where you post your reports? Are they on Walkhighlands? And your Age of Sails?