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Posted by Justine at 13:43, October 20th, 2005 under Basketball, Cons & Other Gatherings, Cricket, Food, How To Ditch Your Fairy, Liquids, Listening, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, Scott's books, Sport, Travelling, Words & Language, Young Adult literature |
Letters of support
Blurbs
Bios
Business letters
Outlines
Synopses
Abstracts
Chapter summaries
Update: I forgot the worst of the lot: grant applications!
Posted by Justine at 16:13, September 11th, 2005 under Whingeing, Words & Language, Writing life |
Posted by Justine at 10:55, September 8th, 2005 under Magic or Madness trilogy, Words & Language, Writing life |
Posted by Justine at 14:52, September 5th, 2005 under Bloggery, Magic or Madness trilogy, New York City/USA, Words & Language, Writing life |
Posted by Justine at 13:12, August 31st, 2005 under Bloggery, Words & Language, Writing life |
Israeli editor,
Didi Canoch, just read Magic or Madness, and while he enjoyed it, thinks it's
untranslatable into Hebrew. Colour me disappointed, but I found his reasons why, and the enusing discussion in
the comments fascinating.
So far, the book has sold to Taiwan, France and Thailand. I confess I have been wondering how those translations were going to get around the linguistic play in the book between Australian and USian English. Especially as I don't speak any of those languages and don't know much about them. Didi reckons a French translation could make use of Quebecois French.
Which got me wondering: wouldn't using Quebecois French or, say, Mexican Spanish---were Magic or Madness ever to be translated into ...
Posted by Justine at 0:47, August 30th, 2005 under Magic or Madness trilogy, Viewing, Words & Language |
Posted by Justine at 14:47, August 20th, 2005 under Fans & readers, Praising, Reading, Words & Language |
Posted by Justine at 12:44, August 19th, 2005 under Publishing business, Whingeing, Words & Language |
My friend, Ron Serdiuk, proprietor of the wonderous Pulp Fiction bookstore in Brisbane, just added
this comment to the long ago
puce thread. I think it worthy of elevation to a post of its own. He wrote:
I know that the historical origins were worked over and the flea blood/shit thang was put forward and everyone was fairly happpy with that and it seemed to be the end of the discussion . . .
but I don't think that's all there is.
I think the actual colour changed---and relatively quickly in hostorical terms---and became something else entirely.
Certainly now - according to Richard (source: decorator and paint charts) and Leanne (source: printers' colour guides)---t's either a cherry-ish red or an orange-y ...
Posted by Justine at 20:05, August 15th, 2005 under Reading, Words & Language |
Posted by Justine at 18:56, August 11th, 2005 under Ranting, Reading, State of the World, Words & Language |
My friend
Justine (also an Australian) asked me the other day what
colour puce is. I've read a tonne of
Georgette Heyer where it's a colour that pretty much no one looks any good in, so I had always imagined it was a kind of cacky yellow-brown (on a puce=puke or puce=poo etymological model). It had never occurred to me to look it up. But Justine did. And read that it was a non-saturated red (I forget the whole description), but it sounded like terracotta, which is a lovely colour.
Here's what the OED says:
puce [pjus], a. (sb.) [a. Fr. puce sb.:-L. plex, -icem a flea; couleur puce flea-colour (17th c.).]
a. attrib. or as adj. (orig. puce colour): ...
Posted by Justine at 16:55, July 6th, 2005 under Viewing, Words & Language |
Cherie Priest is a very funny woman.
Her latest post slew me. In answer to her question: yes, absolutely. It is not only a writer's job, it is their duty to eavesdrop.
Posted by Justine at 11:56, June 23rd, 2005 under Listening, State of the World, Words & Language |
A friend recently pulled me up for saying someone was being narky, telling me that the word is
'snarky', not 'narky'.
Uh no, I said 'narky' and I meant 'narky'.
For the friend who still thinks I'm making it up I turn to the
Macquarie Dictionary:
nark
--noun 1. an informer; a spy, especially for the police. 2. a scolding, complaining person; one who is always interfering and spoiling the pleasure of others.
--verb (t) 3. to nag; irritate; annoy: "This made me a little narked, then I realised that I was only young and he wouldn't have thought that I was applying for the job myself." --ALBERT FACEY, 1981. 4. Obsolete to cause (a person, plan, etc.) to fail: he ...
Posted by Justine at 17:07, June 8th, 2005 under Words & Language |
Posted by Justine at 1:21, May 2nd, 2005 under Magic or Madness trilogy, Musings, New York City/USA, Sydney/Australia, Words & Language |
making the world a better place
Posted by Justine at 23:04, February 22nd, 2004 under Musings, Words & Language |
and only five weeks left
Posted by Justine at 23:01, January 26th, 2004 under Magic or Madness trilogy, Musings, New York City/USA, Scott's books, Sydney/Australia, Words & Language, Writing life |
Justine moves beyond first grade primers (¡Mira Juan corre!) and reads a whole novel in Spanish
Posted by Justine at 22:59, January 22nd, 2004 under Cricket, Musings, Reading, Sport, Travelling, Words & Language |
split infinitives, double negatives and other grammatical idiocies
Posted by Justine at 22:55, January 6th, 2004 under Musings, Travelling, Words & Language |
Justine starts to get some of her Spanish back
Posted by Justine at 22:11, December 8th, 2003 under Musings, Travelling, Words & Language |
Because everytime I forget and call them "Americans", I get in trouble from my Mexican and Canadian friends. I hate being in trouble.
The Mexicans tell me I should call them "gringos" or "yanquis", but then it turns out that they'd also call Canadians or English people or me a gringo (okay, gringa, whatever), thus limiting the usefulness of the term. I have a Texan husband who points out that yankee does not apply to the people of the southern states of the USA. (Though from my brief sojourns in the south I noted that Southerners more commonly use the term "damnyankee" to refer to USians from the northern states.)
I'd love to call them sepos, but sadly the word derives from ...
Posted by Justine at 22:16, October 22nd, 2003 under Musings, New York City/USA, Praising, State of the World, Words & Language |
