Contextless nitpickery unrelated to work

[james_davis_nicoll]

But I think that even though the same letters are involved, the Greek god of War probably prefers to be refered to as Ares and not Arse.

Points for consistency throughout the document, though.

Comments

[space-parasite.livejournal.com]

But "theater" and "theatre" are pronounced the same, so obviously the order of the last two letters isn't significant in English.

[the-nita.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

I needed that.

[caprine.livejournal.com]

Now there is a Freudian slip rich with meaning.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

WORD can help with errors like this, via the "change all" option in spell check and WORD's oddly limited vocabulary.

This comes up a lot in my reports, thanks to the nature of F&SF.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Well, Ares always was portrayed as a bit of a jerk so maybe the "tyop" is appropriate.

-- Steve can't think of a good tagline; maybe the Muses are holding off to stay out of the inevitable divine retribution's blast radius.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

I have to second this sentiment. If Greek gods are archetypes, he's the drunk violent asshole.

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of an exchange on rafsw a few years back, which went something like this:

"How do English people actually pronounce the word 'arse'?"

"How do you mean"

"Well, does it rhyme with 'pass' or with 'parse'?"

"But... those two words sound exactly the same!"

[traviswells.livejournal.com]

I was once in a similar discussion about "ass" vs. "arse". That was confusing.
Aussie: We pronounce them differently! *MP3*
American: No you don't! Even in that sound file, they're both the same. You say "ass"
Aussie: No, we don't say "ass", you guys do. We say "arse" (But drop the R in saying it)
American: That'd just be "ass" then!
Aussie: NO IT'S NOT

and so on. Personally, I think there's a third "arse" somewhere with an undropped-R, but I've been unable to find it.

[jwgh]

I took a course on Greek drama once, and the professor told us that, while she in general didn't take points off for minor misspellings or grammatical errors, she did want to emphasize that the word 'Furies' contains one 'r'.

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

Okay, that gave me visions.

[(Anonymous)]

Visions nothing, I've seen several artists do furry Furies.

-- Rick Pikul

[(Anonymous)]

This makes my day. Ha!!!

Arse and the Furries.

[badgerbag.livejournal.com]

Whoops, that was me.

[cogitationitis.livejournal.com]

My daughter has a friend in school named Ares. I'd always pronounced it "air-ease," but he pronounces his names "are-ess," as is it were initials (RS). It's made me wonder which version is correct.

[sciamanna.livejournal.com]

Well, Greekly speaking, AR-ess would be correct. Your pronunciation sounds like it could be tha standard English version, don't know as I'm Italian myself. After many years in an English-speaking country with a high percentage of Gaelic names, my policy in general is to consider correct whatever pronunciation the name's victim chooses :-)

[cogitationitis.livejournal.com]

They're Hispanic, so it follows they'd use your Italian pronounciation.

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

I have a friend, an American of Chinese descent, who has admitted that she can't quite pronounce her own name properly.

And my last name -- TenEyck -- is Dutch, but I have absolutely no idea whether I'm pronouncing it right or not. And I've been told that that spelling of it is archaic.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, Eyck (oak) would be spelled Eik in modern dutch.

Martin Wisse