Or in the form of those "inspirations words" calendars.
e.g. STYGIAN, the picture would be a large black square.
Caption, anyone?
--Ted
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Or in the form of those "inspirations words" calendars.
e.g. STYGIAN, the picture would be a large black square.
Caption, anyone?
--Ted
Even writers can not spell?
"Sygian" is an ancient and venerable version of the word!
When you look long into the Stygian Darkness, the Stygian Darkness also looks into you.
It's like, how much more black could Stygian be? And the answer is none. None more black.
I'm doing copyedits for Over a Torrent Sea right now, and I'm struggling to resist the temptation to insert a few stygians here and there...
No, wait... not that hard to resist after all.
No, wait... not that hard to resist after all.
Over a Stygian Sea has a nice ring to it.
Even writers can not spell?
"Sygian" is an ancient and venerable version of the word!
Cool, learned something new today. I could not find it on the net after a quick search.
The landing party materialized in the cavern. "Is it dark in here, or is it just me?"
"Dark? Jim, it's positively Stygian in here!"
Spock sighed. "I find, Doctor, that you use that word overmuch."
"If it's light you're after, I have a flashlight," Scotty proffered. "'Tis enough; 'twould serve."
All hell broke loose.
"Dark? Jim, it's positively Stygian in here!"
Spock sighed. "I find, Doctor, that you use that word overmuch."
"If it's light you're after, I have a flashlight," Scotty proffered. "'Tis enough; 'twould serve."
All hell broke loose.
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Getting back to the original topic... I find that my characters sigh an awful lot. I sometimes wonder if I'm overusing that.
That's because Paul is desperately tap-dancing.
Stygian comes from the mythological River Styx; it's always had the 't'.Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Even writers can not spell?
"Sygian" is an ancient and venerable version of the word!
Bless you, Paul. But I went back and corrected it to the modern and invenerable version. Er ... non-venerable, um ... unvenerable, disvenerable, anti-venerable ...
Heck, I changed it back.
--Ted
Even writers can not spell?
"Sygian" is an ancient and venerable version of the word!
Bless you, Paul. But I went back and corrected it to the modern and invenerable version. Er ... non-venerable, um ... unvenerable, disvenerable, anti-venerable ...
Heck, I changed it back.
--Ted
My definition of ancient encompasses words created today when necessary! (Tap-dancing, huh?)
At least it's better than Dean Wesley Smith's characters, who always "laughed".
Nothing wrong with laughing, I guess. Except when it's just that: "Jim laughed." "Dr. McCoy laughed." "The woman laughed." "The man laughed."
After the seventh time, I was just crying for something like "Scotty belched out a wave of deep, grumbling laughter that would have stood a good chance of toppling Klingon warriors, had they been as inebriated as the engineer" or "Kirk let slip a girlish little giggle" or "Spock burst into an uncontrollable fit of laughter that made his eyebrows jump up and down".
Or "Uhura laughed at his face in a way that could only be described as Stygian."
I mean, it's not as if writers are fined for every adjective they use, is it?
(Is it?)
Timo Saloniemi
Nothing wrong with laughing, I guess. Except when it's just that: "Jim laughed." "Dr. McCoy laughed." "The woman laughed." "The man laughed."
After the seventh time, I was just crying for something like "Scotty belched out a wave of deep, grumbling laughter that would have stood a good chance of toppling Klingon warriors, had they been as inebriated as the engineer" or "Kirk let slip a girlish little giggle" or "Spock burst into an uncontrollable fit of laughter that made his eyebrows jump up and down".
Or "Uhura laughed at his face in a way that could only be described as Stygian."
I mean, it's not as if writers are fined for every adjective they use, is it?
(Is it?)
Timo Saloniemi
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