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Anne Rice Spits The Dummy
Anne Rice writes to those who don't like her books. flummery writes an excellent rebuttal.


Off to Wagga Wagga
Tomorrow I'm off to the university campus at Wagga Wagga for some serious Cisco training. Theoretically I should have the CCNA2 and CCNA3 certificates at the end, but that probably won't happen judging by the difficulty I'm having with the online assessments.

1996

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I just think she's far too arrogant (I wonder what J.K. Rowling is like). "Every word is in perfect place"? Bah. Anyone who thinks you can perfectly express something with any language really must not have very much to express. (There is, of course, the best way to express something using dictionary words, but then, I doubt she can recall all of those, or has used them all enough to pick out all the subtleties.)

She obviously has never tried to translate anything either.

There's a Chinese phrase that translates literally as "yes, but" (except the Chinese has no comma). It means somewhere between "same difference" and "who cares". There's another Chinese phrase that translates roughly as "carelessly", except you don't say that someone "carelessly picked two boxes of blueberries" (you usually say someone "carelessly knocked over all the blueberries").