Posts Tagged "Words"
Daily Writing Tips had a nice post on [sic] the other day, and I figured it was worth repeating… but I won’t [sic] it. 
So, what does it mean?
You see it all the time in articles in the newspaper, or on the web.
Sic is the Latin word for “thus,” or “such.”
It means, something is exactly as it was said, or appeared. Spelling and all.
For instance, we had a lively discussion about submissions, and how we’re prone to triple check — even after the thing is already out of the door — whether we attached the right file.
In reply, Debora said, I do think "neurotic" is just another word for "writer" [sic]
Those were her words, exactly as they appeared.
If I’d said Deb responded saying neurotic is yet another word for writer, then that would not be [sic], because I’m paraphrasing.
So, is it becoming any clearer?
Tags: Meaning, The Written Word, Words
A rose by any other name smells just as sweet… or so the saying goes.
I’m toying with the idea of making up a language for my books. Toying being the operative word here. It’s not easy.
I mean, where do you start? I thought maybe just gibberish, but then… then I tripped across various other places and I thought no, I’m not going to make it up as I go along. It needs some structure, I want my guys to be able to string sentences together. For that, I’ll need a dictionary and grammar rules.
Eeek.
Then I thought how hard can it be?
Let me tell you — it’s hard. It has to make sense. So I started to build and English word list of very basic words. Come. Get. Do. Give. Take. and so on. Then the bug took hold big time and I started to look deeper and deeper.
God knows where it will lead, or whether I’ll ever use any of it, but for now it’s pretty good fun.
It’ll still be gibberish, but… never mind. I figure if I have to create an alternate world where things go bump in the night, then I might as well go the whole hog!
Tags: Fantasy, Language, Words, Worldbuilding
