![]() Respelling Lucas to Lucoth does not make it cool. I need a spork so I can dig my eyeballs out with it.ĭerivative spellings of common Earth names are lame. The mead was sweat and tasted of cloves.” It suddenly occured to Stephen that he was hungry, and when he bit into the pungent, almost buttery cheese, he amended that to ravenous. ![]() “At that moment, Wilhilm reappeared, with a stoneware platter of cheese, a pitcher of mead, and mazers for each of them. And it’s “destroyer.” There’s elegance to that, rhythm… music. “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. R– wait, do I really need to tell you who that is and what he wrote? I would find that patronizing. To prove my point, here is a passage from J. ![]() And I mean a literal cow, not the denigrating derivative sometimes used to refer to fat people. Like putting Alexander McQueen or Prada on a scarecrow. They don’t make worn, wear, drear language any better. “But oh ye blogger, why would thou, an English major, deny the beauty that synonyms dost bestow upon the worn, weary, and drear language?”īecause, ye ingrates– synonyms are only replacements. ![]() Greg Keyes needed to torch his thesaurus, and who ever told him such a thing existed needs to be drug out into the street and shot. ![]()
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