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[[deleted user]]

Welcome Nina! Glad to have you here-- do you like the Kindle?

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Nina? How did that sneak past me! G'day Nina!! Welcome....hope you have fun here!
NE....welcome to my dial-up world...mwah hahahahaha!!!

[Nina]

Thanks--I love the Kindle, although I am giving a lot of my money to Amazon (after being a library goer all my life). I really like that I can look up a book after seeing a review and having it downloaded within seconds! I can carry my whole library around with me, look up words instantly, bookmark stuff that I want to tell someone about...I could go on and on. I don't miss the physical part of the book at all. This is a great thing for an old timer. The price just went down also.

[Ken, Moderator]

Hi Nina. Welcome aboard. I am in Debbie's Dial-Up World at the moment (briefly today, as the company's out for a moment). About to slather up with SPF-30 and sun on the floating dock with my book. Kindle doesn't tempt me in the least. I need good old-fashioned paper and ink in my hands.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Me too....can't flip back as easily on a computer (especially on dial-up!!!)

[Bluedaizy]

Hey! I'm relatively new to Goodreads. I joined Memorial Weekend and have become absolutely addicted.

I am totally amazed that there isn't a collection of dictionaries or grammatical references on the group's bookshelf. I've seen a couple of references in the threads, but you all are making me work too hard to find them! :)

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Welcome Bluedaizy....books on a shelf? Sounds FAR too organised for us!!!!!

[Terena]

I speak a language, used to have a Gramma, and pushed Join. Looks like I'm in.

Hello. I'm Terena. A publisher, editor and writer, so that means I am obsessive about words. Glad to "meet" you.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Hi Terena......welcome.

[Ken, Moderator]

Great mix of teachers, editors, publishers, and word freaks in general here. Good to meet you, Terena, and your Gramma, too (the award-winning one, I mean).

What do you publish, edit, and write?

[Julianna]

Hi, I'm Julie. I love playing word games and have been lurking, watching some of my friends play the games on this forum for a while now. I finally couldn't help but join in the fun.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Welcome Julie....another lurker crumbles into participation....yes!!!!!

[Ken, Moderator]

Hi Julie. Post early and often...

[Tyler]

They're going like dervishes on those word play threads.

[Lasairfiona]

Hi, I'm Lasairfiona (pronounced Las-air-fee-o-na. Seriously). I jumped in to, perhaps, answer a question in the Grammar experts thread as well as ask one of my own. I tend to use parenthesis entirely too much (it is to mimic the way I think complete with side thoughts - works for me).

My degree is in engineering and yes, I can write better than the typical engineer (not that it takes much...). Hopefully, I can work some of the kinks out of my writing with this group. I have a terrible time keeping my tenses straight and tend to use grammar by instinct rather than by rules. ::ducks::

[Ken, Moderator]

(Welcome, Lasairfiona! Is the first part of your name a riff on laissez-faire? Anyway, always great to have a well-read, fine-writing engineer in the bunch! -- NE)

[Lasairfiona]

Nah, it is actually a Gaelic name. There are a bunch of other spellings but everything seems to point to that particular, very odd pronunciation (later spellings were much simpler: Lasareena). I picked it out of a book and have gone by the name, both online and off, for a number of years now.

And well read is rather relative, ya know? I am horribly deficient in the literature classics but I have sci fi down pat. ::grins::

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Welcome Lasairfiona (Lass for short?!). I tend to use parentheses for additional thoughts too and I am more of an instinctive grammarian as well.

[Ken, Moderator]

Sci fi I'm weak at. I've enjoyed a few. Ender's Game, for one. Snow Crash (if that works as "sci fi," and maybe not), for another. But I've never dug into the hardcore stuff (Bradbury, Bova, Heinlein, etc.). Dune? Got bogged down in the sand along about p. 167. Helicoptered out to safety (read: another book).

[Lasairfiona]

Dune is pretty heavy; Snow Crash totally counts (if you liked Stephenson, try The Diamond Age); Ender's game is awesome. [/experiment with semicolons.] :) You should try The Demolished Man and this book which is full of some of the best sci fi short stories ever. Highly recommended.

Believe me, sci fi fans will put up with a lot of crap to have a neato story. Sometimes slogging through some of it isn't worth it, other times you get an amazing gem.

Oh, and Las is fine. The double s is just too much. :) Fiona is also a common one.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I loved Dune...read them all. Strange, as I don't generally like sci-fi.

[Ken, Moderator]

OK, thanks for the recs. I'm always open to recs. In fact, I have a rec room to store them in...

[gb]

Hi,
I am software developer, I feel bit inferior to write this introduction for all you English Language geniuses. In fact, I am amongst those computer programmers who are responsible for distorting the language for our own convenience by opting to shortcuts while typing online messages and phone texting. Honestly, I have forgotten whatever little I use to know about English grammer and spellings. I will try my level best to contribute. :)

[[deleted user]]

Hi Gauri! I'm no English Language genius-- by no stretch of the imagination (I am guilty of comma overuse, parentheses abuse, and subject/verb disagreement)-- there is a place here for everybody, even those with a bit of a mathematical bent :) So, welcome & enjoy!

[gb]

Thanks! Please correct my mistakes that's the whole point of joining this group isn't it? learn while you play:)

[gb]

Thanks Sarah!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Welcome Gauri.....all learning is play!! G'day Sarah...where you been?!!!

[Ken, Moderator]

Sarah, has your parentheses abuse been reported to the proper authorities? Did you enjoy your vacation?

Gauri -- Welcome, welcome, welcome. And it's good you don't mind being corrected because I don't, either (and we all know the world is divided between those who don't mind corrections and those who get corrected in L&G only to never return to this group again). Making mistakes is learning, after all, and I've learned a ton on this site, thanks to the frighteningly combined minds that frequent it.

[gb]

Thanks Newengland!
Sorry, I am not fimiliar with lot of Acronyms. What is L&G? is it "Latest & Greatest"?

[Savvy]

Hiddy!

I joined a few days ago (guess I missed being the 300th by a couple!)
I am a self admitted logophile and think I'll enjoy hanging around this place.
I live in the Pacific Northwest...near to Seattle and belong to a few book clubs, both on-line and F2F.
I am also a published free-lance writer and sporadic poet.
I'm known for making up words...sniglets...when needed.
So, I'll just stroll around and get the feel for what's happenin' round here and see how it all fits....
Cheers!
Susanne

[Ken, Moderator]

Hey, Susanne. This joint sounds like a perfect fit for you. Make yourself at house.

[Tyler]

The site has exactly 300 members after one dropped out. I think that makes "Elizabeth" the 300th member.

[Ken, Moderator]

As Tolstoy once wrote in an essay, "How Many Members Does a Man Need?"

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Phew!!! Hot flush coming on!!!! Cut it out NE!

[Lasairfiona]

Oh man, Sniglets. My dad had a sniglet a day calendar when I was a kid and it was a highlight of the week when he brought them home.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

What are they?

[Lasairfiona]

"Any word that doesn't appear in the dictionary, but should." Wiki. Entertaining stuff.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Thankyou!

[Ken, Moderator]

Sniglet? You mean, like hoitney: a seriously uncool male dweeb; formal: "hoitney schnoitney"; also: "hoit" (e.g. "Zeke, who was wearing a checkered shirt, striped pants, and dark socks with white sneakers, certainly was a hoit")?

[Symbol]

Ha! Well, it took me a while, but I'm finally caught up (in this thread at least). I've been away for a while and it seems everyone's been quite busy in my absence. The last time I checked in here, NE and Deb were just cleaning up the pies and canapes from our 100th member party. Now, we've apparently rocketed past 300 while I was asleep at the wheel!

I'll have to catch up on the rest of the threads here at L&G soon but, after reading over 300 new posts in this thread alone, I think I'm just about done for the day!

Anyway, just wanted to get back into the swing of things at let my fellow grammarians know that I hadn't actually fallen off the face of the planet!

Cheers,
- Symbol

[Symbol]

Oh, and, speaking of sniglets... You should get a copy of The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet--But There Ought to Be by Douglas Adams.

Actually, I should get a copy of that book too! I've been meaning to for ages, but it somehow always slips my mind when I'm in a library or bookstore...

[Savvy]

Thanks Symbol...this is definitely my kinda book!...

"The Deeper Meaning of Liff—a whole new solution to the problem of Great Wakering!"

I just 'Amazoned' it! :-)

[Ken, Moderator]

Douglas Adams of Hitchhiker fame?

And welcome back, symbolically and realistically!

[Symbol]

Yes, the very same! I've been trying to convince myself to read some of his other books - Dirk Gently and such - but I'm a little apprehensive. He set the bar pretty high with Hitchhiker...

[Ken, Moderator]

I've never read it, writing it off as a teenage boy thing (and it's too late for me on that count... I lost my teenager-dumb back in the Woodrow Wilson Administration).

[Symbol]

Well, I read the Hitchhiker trilogy as a teenager so, maybe it is just a high school infatuation. I did enjoy enjoy it immensely at the time. 'Though I was a little let down by books four and five. If you're going to read the Hitchhiker series, I'd recommend forgetting the whole "trilogy in five parts" thing. Just treat it as a traditional trilogy. Stop reading after book three!

I'd like to go back and read the whole series again sometime - just to see if I still like them as well as I remember - but it's hard for me to persuade myself to reread a book when there's so many other great stories out there that I've never read!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Welcome back Symbol; :-)

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Welcome o young, fresh, enthusiastic and uncynical being.....don't mind us!

[Ken, Moderator]

Welcome o young, fresh, enthusiastic and uncynical being... don't mind Debbie! Mind me!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Hahahahahaha!!!