Alarm! Alarm!

[la_marquise]

Something must be wrong with me.
I just went out of my way to use 'brisk masculine prose' rather than an appropriate Latinate word. My head has been invaded.*

I'm back to The Drowning Kings. Any tips for stopping myself thinking of it as 'the bl**dy Celtic book' gratefully received. It really isn't constructive. It's not an academic treatise. it's mean to be fun.


* 'make it worse' instead of 'exacerbate'. Owain doesn't strike me as an 'exacerbate' kind of guy.

Comments

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

You could keep the phrase and use the American meaning, and by "bloody" mean that it is full of excitement, death, adventure, and thrills. I can't wait!

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Now that is an excellent idea. I can do buckets of blood. (I already have a huge great fight all over Tintagel plotted in.) Thank you.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Heh. In Stalky & Co, they call this "preferring the good old Anglo-Saxon"...

I don't much think of myself as either brisk or masculine, but I do tend to duck polysyllabic Latinates where possible, and except in certain people's mouths.

Also, yay fun. I at least am looking forward to this book. And to talking about it, Wednesday as ever was or will be...

(But yes, you can absolutely keep calling it "the bl**dy Celtic book". Nobody should be too respectful of their own work.)

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oooh, another Stalky fan!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh lordy, yes. How not? Kipling is one of my touchstones, and Stalky is a core text. I go back and back to it.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

So glad you are back on it. Want to read!

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

If you think of it using the American definition of "bloody", that would make it more marketable to Hollywood, and that's fun, right?

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Kings Pool Party!

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!!!