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“choice” = analysis paralysis

didn’t Google promise to stop being evil?

thanks Myr - worked a treat! it’s an automatic reflex my fingers have ‘learned’ for every website - so they’re going on a training course NOT to do this for GayAuthors

is embedding Post Images pics in forum posts yet another victim of the infamous “Online Safety Act”? https://freespeechunion.org/archive/hamster-forum-and-local-residents-websites-shut-down-by-new-internet-laws (Note: the Hamster Forum is a notorious fetishistic hotbed of grotesquely animalistic behaviours featuring explicit high resolution images of what these disgusting furry creatures get up to when they think no-one’s looking… )

4 words …and 2,000 years of history

yes but… blame the Victorians, they loved putting things into straightjackets and corsets (especially people ) And give thanks to the French before they invaded England (1066) Old English was an inflected language, like old German (on which much of English was based - more invasions you see 😮) including infinitives, which were just one word (no “to”) which meant because the infinitive (in whichever form) was a single word it couldn’t be split! but the French changed all that, and infinitives became two words - which you CAN split Then, some time later… the Victorians (once they’d got everyone tied up in corsets or straitjackets ) decided that because Latin infinitives couldn’t be split then neither could English infinitives. If they’d based their argument on Old English there might have been some logic. But they didn’t. So there wasn’t And we’ve all been feeling guilty/censorious ever since But, hey, what kid would be roused +inspired by “To go boldly where no one has gone before” or “Boldly to go where no one has gone before”? TOS’s split Infinitive intro is one of the greatest lines in sci-if history!

exact same thing happened to a long running time travel show and - guess what - it stopped running… ☹️

Interestingly Star Trek TOS on Blu-ray (where the pilot +earliest episodes are now 60 years old!) is better picture quality than more recent Trek because it was all shot on 35mm film, while later series were all or partly on VT, and sound recording is better too because in them thar days skilled sound engineers ensured that dialogue was always clear (and actors were trained in diction and elocution)

the piano is a percussion instrument …so why not use it to make the rhythm backing track?🧐 Factoids #1 although (obviously) the instrument uses strings to produce the 88 tuned notes (on most pianos), in orchestral scores the piano is grouped with the percussion section because the keys are struck, it provides rhythmic emphasis, and it cannot sustain or swell a note like a bowed string instrument #2 some pianists have developed this feature of the piano, using the wooden case, fittings and mechanisms to create percussion effects during performance. Hungarian composer /maestro Peter Bence shows how he does this in his arrangement +recording of Michael Jackson’s ‘Human Nature’, using ‘looping & layering’ of the recorded percussion sounds in the mixer desk to create the rhythm backing track to his keyboard performance

🤣😂classic way to restart the ‘border wars’

oh you do, Krista everyone has an accent even if it’s just ‘posh’

rife across the UK I like the variety of accents, but many Scots defeat me (‘Double Dutch’ my grandma would scornfully declare ) the only thing that matters is diction - spoken English is incomprehensible without clearly enunciated consonants my ‘gaydar’ is constantly scanning people and flagging up ‘Gay!!’ according to the excellence (or not) of their diction and elocution

I’m not an author but I have thought about how I would use AI tools if I were, and that’s in the structure / planning of the story eg opening scene introducing the MC (or not), main story arc, engaging sub-plots, cast and so on We know that even “the greats” (composers too) have sometimes hit the proverbial brick wall and abandoned works because the structure was wrong and they couldn’t figure out how to fix it, or perhaps set it aside hoping future inspiration might find that elusive fix It’s how writers chose to use these AI tools that opens up the potential for them to inspire genuine creativity, not just to churn out derivative content based on soulless algorithms

looks like what my gran used to call “cough medicine”

UK ‘leaders’ v busy rolling out more +more requirements - guess EU too