Notices by Jim Bowering (arjaybe@mastodon.club)

Transliterations of Alien Texts
People ask why I use human referents in my stories about aliens. Why, for instance, did Archie take the name Archimedes when his history doesn't include Archimedes? Shouldn't Archie have named himself after a great mathematician from his own world? The answer is, he did, and I've substituted that alien name with o
https://greencomet.org/2019/03/30/transliterations-of-alien-texts/
#greencomet #language #parasitepuppeteers #TheFrancesians #ThePlainsrunner

Two Spaces
Grammar of the Day - Two Spaces

There should be two spaces after a full stop. I know everyone says there should only be one. The style guides agree with them. Even this blog software agrees with them, turning all of my double spaces into singles. The one-spacers say we two-spacers are living in the past. They say that two spaces might have been needed when people were using those old-fashioned printing pres
https://greencomet.org/2019/03/06/two-spaces/
#doublespace #grammar