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Instead, the Inca leader just gloats that "They shall not escape alive from the Bone-Breaker Bridge!"Þorgrímur Kárihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18414331361638129083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-13436975606000974082020-03-28T18:25:13.323-04:002020-03-28T18:25:13.323-04:00"Also, for those of you who have read this st..."Also, for those of you who have read this story in other languages, how did they translate it? Did they make it sound as good as it does in English?"<br /><br />In Portuguese, "esmagar" ("Ah! O nosso quebra-crânio rugidor vai esmagar os invasores") - nothing special.<br /><br />Miguel Madeirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07382939732567489809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-16924677751695899942020-03-28T17:27:03.645-04:002020-03-28T17:27:03.645-04:00Are we sure it's not just a typo for "fou...Are we sure it's not just a typo for "four-cornered"?Christinanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-76660245462278226022020-03-27T18:45:45.239-04:002020-03-27T18:45:45.239-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jeffyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04966913400710653000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-43766698929250466532020-03-27T13:33:24.918-04:002020-03-27T13:33:24.918-04:00Hey, GeoX, you have GOT to be back on this blog on...Hey, GeoX, you have GOT to be back on this blog on Carl Barks's birthday! In the country I'm currently residing in, it's already March 27! Oh, and remember to celebrate this blog's 11th anniversary, OK! I hope you are healthy and not infected with that COVID-19 thing. I wish you all good luck! Wow, it has been such a good time on this blog for more than two years (I have, as long as I can currently remember, reading this blog from at least December 8, 2017, and have been liking it REALLY much ever since!). Yes, what said is ALL true, everyone! And now, I'm back to read this blog and try to do it even frequently than before!TTL TTLRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-22154708738769631642020-03-22T18:27:25.927-04:002020-03-22T18:27:25.927-04:00My feeling is that if a language has "rules&q...My feeling is that if a language has "rules" that a native speaker doesn't naturally internalize in the course of acquiring it, those "rules" are spurious. In English, splitting infinitives, ending sentences in prepositions, and some thing with whether to use "that" or "which" in relative clauses which is so unintuitive I can't even articulate it. The sole English-language exception to this is the prohibition on using "me" as a subject pronoun ("Me and Geoff argued about grammar"). EVERYBODY botches this on occasion when they're not thinking about it, teachers have to constantly correct it, there's no good reason for it. You wouldn't say "Je et Geoff" in French. But it HAS been so universally internalized that you have no choice but consistently do it if you want to come across as literate. We've just gotta accept it at this point. But otherwise, I have no use for made-up rules.<br /><br />Singular "they" is fine, and it's time to explode the myth that it's somehow "new"--<a href="https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they/" rel="nofollow">the first attested usage</a> is from 1375. It's just a natural thing that makes sense to people. Whenever you hear people objecting to usage on "logical" grounds--"they" is plural, so how can use it to refer to just one person?--I have to call bullshit--languages, at least natural languages, are not logical constructs. Anyway, we seem to get along fine with using "you" in both the singular and plural (not that I wouldn't be in favor of bringing back "thou" and "thee," just for fun), so what's the big deal? Though the "problem" would be moot if, like Indonesian (and presumably other languages, but that's the one I've studied), we had a gender-neutral third-person-singular pronoun ("dia").GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-72134158024640402162020-03-22T09:56:16.765-04:002020-03-22T09:56:16.765-04:00I'm neither an active fan of the singular &quo...I'm neither an active fan of the singular "they" as such, nor against its use, personally. The thing is that it's terrifically useful to have a gender-neutral pronoun applicable to individuals, and that while "they" takes a little while to get used to, the made-up alternatives like "ze" are significantly sillier and more off-putting. <br /><br />And with all due respect, Mr Blum, I am told (by Bill Bryson's <i>Mother Tongue</i>, and more recently by Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_infinitive#History_of_the_controversy) that the prohibition on split infinitive is a 19th-century invention. Not to say that <i>un</i>split don't have a tendency significantly to slap. But it is <i>they</i> who are the conspicuous affectation in most cases.<br /><br />Anyway. About the story… the French translation renders "scramscraggle" as "écrabouiller", which is a fun, picturesque word to be sure, but a much more common one than "scramscraggle".Achille Talonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11636339293230261724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-80119889480214031962020-03-21T14:11:35.023-04:002020-03-21T14:11:35.023-04:00Not to mention losing points for just having split...Not to mention losing points for just having split an infinitive ("to quickly lose"). RESIST THE FUTURE!<br />—G. BlumAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-86348669503105422172020-03-21T13:57:18.559-04:002020-03-21T13:57:18.559-04:00Oops. Apologies to Ms McAllister--it did vaguely ...Oops. Apologies to Ms McAllister--it did vaguely occur to me as I was writing that I wasn't sure of the gender, but I just generally think of "Lonnie" as a male name, so there we were. I've corrected the entry. But I'm afraid I'm going to quickly lose those points I just got, because I'm a big fan of singular "they." It's the wave of the future! You cannot escape it!GeoX, one of the GeoX boys.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14658452994152399308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-44889163795426594672020-03-21T13:57:13.277-04:002020-03-21T13:57:13.277-04:00Thanks for your support. I was half expecting to ...Thanks for your support. I was half expecting to get called out as a dirty sexist.<br />—G. BlumAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5423579092779163824.post-46392503381451538162020-03-21T13:17:47.975-04:002020-03-21T13:17:47.975-04:00"They" in place of he or she may be gain..."They" in place of he or she may be gaining in currency, but IMO it still looks awful in print.Jeffyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04966913400710653000noreply@blogger.com