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Old 09-19-2023, 01:36 PM   #1906
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I have a new rant. People spelling calibre as caliber.
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Old 09-19-2023, 01:42 PM   #1907
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Affect and effect? Lose vs loose? All too many examples of that type of error.
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Old 09-19-2023, 02:40 PM   #1908
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Black and Violet for eye colours (other than SF or Fantasy non-humans). Very dark brown and pale blue that can seem somewhat violet if you have poor colour sense.
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Old 09-19-2023, 02:42 PM   #1909
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People automatically catching a cold if wet (but salt water doesn't do it!).

People always just are unconscious a short while, rather than hospitalised or dead from a blow on the head.
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Old 09-19-2023, 03:16 PM   #1910
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People always just are unconscious a short while, rather than hospitalised or dead from a blow on the head.
Nancy Drew got hit on the head in virtually every book.

And a corollary is that when someone wants to administer a "friendly" blow, i.e., enough to make a person unconscious but not cause any permanent harm, they can calculate the force to a psi.
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Old 09-19-2023, 04:06 PM   #1911
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He mentioned this one in another thread.
Thanks. That is a textbook published by Pearson.

There appears to be a special deal between Pearson and Amazon that results in Amazon only delivering Pearson books with DRM that is not known to have been broken. That is no longer possible with the Kindle for PC release currently in use.
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Old 09-19-2023, 04:07 PM   #1912
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Knocking someone cold without doing any real damage.
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Old 09-19-2023, 04:19 PM   #1913
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Knocking someone cold without doing any real damage.
I once read a juvenile book where a character was out riding a horse, got thrown onto a road, and got knocked out (she wasn't wearing a helmet, I guess). Other characters brought her home to sleep it off on the sofa.

As someone who is permanently impaired by a traumatic brain injury after getting knocked cold (by a concrete floor) this made me internally scream.
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Old 09-19-2023, 04:39 PM   #1914
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I was choked till unconscious by a classmate at school. Lucky to avoid brain injury or death. It was the kind of school that bred bullies. A former Public School*, still largely fee paying.

I know fiction is fiction, but really some writers are criminally careless.

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As someone who is permanently impaired by a traumatic brain injury after getting knocked cold (by a concrete floor) this made me internally scream.
Yes, it would. I hope your cat owners are kind.

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A UK Public School is a historic term. It means a private school with no public, local or state control that was originally founded by raising a subscription from rich people, i.e. the public. IMO the current ones should lose charity status and be investigated. Many, like Eton, should be closed.

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Old 09-19-2023, 04:49 PM   #1915
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And a corollary is that when someone wants to administer a "friendly" blow, i.e., enough to make a person unconscious but not cause any permanent harm, they can calculate the force to a psi.
Well, it's nearly impossible. Generally you make the target angry, badly damaged or dead.

See also "knock out" darts, chloroform on cloth etc. Anaesthetic hypo is really really slow and needs body weight known (too little and target is simply slow, too much and they die). Respiratory anaesthetic is very dangerous, hence everything in a hospital theatre is monitored and an expert manages it. A kidnapper is as likely to kill or cause brain damage with chloroform etc, and it's slow. So in real life they threaten with a weapon and bundle the victim into a vehicle, even then it often goes wrong.

There is a reason why "shoot to kill" is used rather than a hypo-dart with dangerous animals or armed criminals or terrorists.
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Well, it's nearly impossible. Generally you make the target angry, badly damaged or dead.

See also "knock out" darts, chloroform on cloth etc. Anaesthetic hypo is really really slow and needs body weight known (too little and target is simply slow, too much and they die). Respiratory anaesthetic is very dangerous, hence everything in a hospital theatre is monitored and an expert manages it. A kidnapper is as likely to kill or cause brain damage with chloroform etc, and it's slow. So in real life they threaten with a weapon and bundle the victim into a vehicle, even then it often goes wrong.

There is a reason why "shoot to kill" is used rather than a hypo-dart with dangerous animals or armed criminals or terrorists.
Tasers also aren't that safe. They might cause a cardiac arrest.
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Black and Violet for eye colours (other than SF or Fantasy non-humans). Very dark brown and pale blue that can seem somewhat violet if you have poor colour sense.
There's also the fanfiction meme of using the word 'orbs' for eyes. Fanlore has an entire article about the use of 'cerulean orbs.'
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Old 09-19-2023, 09:13 PM   #1918
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Knocking someone cold without doing any real damage.
Into an Icy Puddle?
Just a bad case of the shivers if you get warm fat enough.
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