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Old 10-09-2022, 08:29 PM   #676
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That reminds me that I'm also not at all a fan of dialogue that mixes real-world profanity with curses to fictional deities. "By <insert fictional deity>'s f*****g <insert fictional deity's body part>!"
Makes me think of "By Grabthar's hammer, by the sons of Warvan, you shall be avenged!" (or: By Grabthar's hammer... what a savings...)
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Old 10-09-2022, 08:32 PM   #677
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On the other hand, I prefer real-world profanity to overly forced made up stuff.
That's not "on the other hand," I agree completely.

Though I'd say forced anything--real or made up--tends to rub me the wrong way. Some people just can't swear very well.
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Old 10-09-2022, 08:44 PM   #678
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I am not sure entirely what I was expecting when I went to Amazon and went to Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Alien Contact.

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Old 10-10-2022, 12:50 AM   #679
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On the other hand, I prefer real-world profanity to overly forced made up stuff. After all, the f-word, the b-words and many others are really just normal English words with accepted definitions used as invective, and most of the time there seems little reason why those meanings need made-up words when <insert fictional deity's body part> has been given in English.

But, on the gripping hand, anything can work when done well and not to excess.
The issue for many authors was that use of those normal English and loan words were frowned up by editors and publishers at that time. I remember one author who use futter in several stories until someone (probably Kay Tarrant) realized that it was another way of using the f-word.

I also have unfond memories of when Spanky and Our Gang's song Give a Damn was banned in 1968 for using a profane word and, IMNSHO, very likely being a song about racial equality.
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Old 10-10-2022, 01:21 AM   #680
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I am not sure entirely what I was expecting when I went to Amazon and went to Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Alien Contact.

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Oh yeah. That's one of my pet peeves.
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Old 10-10-2022, 02:24 AM   #681
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I am not sure entirely what I was expecting when I went to Amazon and went to Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Alien Contact.

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Not technically wrong though - it is all about alien contact in the most literal, visceral sense
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Old 10-10-2022, 11:14 AM   #682
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Not technically wrong though - it is all about alien contact in the most literal, visceral sense
As in To Serve Man?
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Old 10-10-2022, 01:39 PM   #683
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I just read the latest Galbraith (J. K. Rowling) The Ink Black Heart and I was unduly irritated by double columns of tiny print chat room conversations.

The crazy bit was that these conversations were then repeated at a normal font size in a single column. These conversations were frequent and could go on for pages, so it wasn't just a once and done aggravation.

Naturally, once I discovered a normal single column version existed directly following the unreadable version, I paged on past.

But why, oh, why would any SANE ebook publisher do this? Why have it formatted in a way that's going to be positively impossible to read on most ereaders when it was obviously possible to format it in a readable manner? Why have BOTH versions present?

Although what I read was a library epub, I went over to Amazon just to see if any reviews mentioned this. A lot of people were irritated with the Kindle formatting and unreadable chats.

It just boggled my mind!
That makes zero sense because there is code in the ePub to not display the text in the images.

I now have two versions. One that displays the graphic text and the other that displays the single column text. I've not yet started this.
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Old 10-10-2022, 01:41 PM   #684
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I am not sure entirely what I was expecting when I went to Amazon and went to Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Alien Contact.

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That is disgusting. Crappy romance disguised as SF.
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What I'm mostly amused at is that the "aliens" are look amazingly similar to human males. Well, one of them has green skin and horns.
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Old 10-10-2022, 02:22 PM   #686
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What I'm mostly amused at is that the "aliens" are look amazingly similar to human males. Well, one of them has green skin and horns.
What I'm amused at is how many aliens speak English.
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What I'm mostly amused at is that the "aliens" are look amazingly similar to human males. Well, one of them has green skin and horns.
Yeah, and they all can have babies with human females. Anyone know anything about basic biology?

Moreover, why are these aliens always male?
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That is disgusting. Crappy romance disguised as SF.
You WISH it were only "crappy romance." Trust me, bro, ain't only just platonic luvvvv happenin' there...

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That is disgusting. Crappy romance disguised as SF.
And some no doubt object on the grounds it’s crappy SF disguised as romance.
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And some no doubt object on the grounds it’s crappy SF disguised as romance.
I can see myself agreeing with that opinion. It IS crappy SF.
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