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Comment on TWIP of the Month by The Heart Wire · TWIPs and the Trouble at the Silver Sixpence

The Heart Wire · TWIPs and the Trouble at the Silver Sixpence — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:01:44 +0000

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Comment on TWIP of the Month by And now, introducing … TWIPs | All Girl Worlds

And now, introducing … TWIPs | All Girl Worlds — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:23:54 +0000

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Comment on Myrine: First Queen of the Amazons by Guessmistress

Guessmistress — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 19:28:51 +0000

What a conundrum this gentleman has set us! Which could he possibly be?

Comment on A Maid’s Duty by RoseRed

RoseRed — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:36:23 +0000

oh no! Where’s the rest of it? Please post the rest soon! I’m on the edge of my seat!

Comment on Language and the problem of gender for all-feminine literature by Minami Kohime

Minami Kohime — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:11:34 +0000

This is indeed an interesting question. I am a native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese and the “genderization” of everything in my language is also present. Even native speakers sometimes have trouble with calling a given thing she or he – for example, lettuce (alface, in portuguese) has a natural tendency of being called “he”, when grammatically it is correct to call the lettuce “she”. But this is a very, very rare case – and, therefore, now broadly known. Even illiterate people in this country speak with “genderization” without making mistakes.

I have seen books where authors resort to an explaining note at the beginning of a book when using different terms of having to use incorrect grammar for the sake of illustrating “regionalisms” and particular cultural aspects. But, overall, the elimination of the “he” and changing it into a pronoun unbeknownst to the native speakers of latin languages might do more harm than good, in my opinion. It is such a natural and intrinsic thing to genderize things in our language that having to suddenly use a new pronoun may cause a big discomfort to the reader. Readers don’t even pay attention to the utilization of she or he in the language. We could add a note explaining this matter to the readers and saying that intermorphs have no indicative of “he” to anything, but we had to do so in the translation for the sake of a better understanding of the text. So, perhaps, making this linguistic concession might be better than changing the natural structure of latin language communication.

Comment on The Fairy Gambit by The Fairy Gambit – revised and expanded | All Girl Worlds

The Fairy Gambit – revised and expanded | All Girl Worlds — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:15:22 +0000

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Comment on The Fairy Gambit – Space Strategy Feminine Style! by The Heart Wire · A New Story at All-Girl Worlds

The Heart Wire · A New Story at All-Girl Worlds — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:42:12 +0000

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Comment on The Fairy Gambit by The Heart Wire · A New Story at All-Girl Worlds

The Heart Wire · A New Story at All-Girl Worlds — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:35:14 +0000

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Comment on The Fairy Gambit by The Fairy Gambit – Space Strategy Feminine Style! | All Girl Worlds

The Fairy Gambit – Space Strategy Feminine Style! | All Girl Worlds — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:15:57 +0000

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Comment on Myrine: First Queen of the Amazons by Mlle l'Editrice

Mlle l'Editrice — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:37:10 +0000

Archaeological research undoubtedly has its limited merits, but it is at best (and by the very definition of the empirical approach) wholly provisional. Of course the ideology behind it is founded on the notion that humans are getting ever nearer to the truth (in all fields of knowledge) with their assiduous accretion of material bits and pieces and that somehow a large enough aggregate of provisional findings could one day add up to a certain truth.

This last idea of course is a confusion between the empirical view of knowledge on which you modern Tellurians have founded your current culture and the traditional view of Truth to which (and as eternal beings you cannot fail to be) you are still – but now quite illogically – attached.

Only in the last century or two have you come to believe in history as an aggregate of material facts. Before that you believed in it as a story validating and explaining your existence. Currently you hover uncomfortably between two worlds – your ineradicable need for a historical mythos and your rather odd belief in the nature of history as positivist or atomic – a mere collection of material bits.

You overcome it, of course, by keeping at least some of your myths (or replacing them with new ones, such as progress/evolution) and justifying them as the results of positivist “research” while trying to ignore the fact that the two things have not even the remotest relation one to another.

The elephant on the tightrope is indeed an excellent analogy, though none of your scribal establishment will ever see the ink that is splattered all over the project for the same reason that no one fails to see the emperor’s clothes.