Activity for celtschk
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| Edit | Post #39479 |
Post edited: Fixed typos |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #286098 |
Your link that says "proven" links to a site that asserts it, but shows no proof. Note that I'm not claiming it's not true, maybe it even has been proven, but the site you link to does not do so, nor, as far as I can see, cite such a proof.
Anyway, the texts you quote are from literary works, ther... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #281837 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Text Editors. Suggesting & Tracking Changes to Plain-Text Documents If it is about text changes, I'd use diff files (in particular the “unified diff” format which also many version control systems use), with a caveat mentioned below. You can create the diff file by keeping the unedited file besides the edited file, and then use the `diff` utility, redirecting the out... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281079 |
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— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281079 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: What is the possessive form of et al.? Just use the other possessive form: > The paper of Einstein et al. stated the opposite conclusion. Although it would read better if you replaced “of” with “by”, but then it would no longer be a possessive case, and thus violate your (rather strange) restriction. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #28127 |
Post edited: Slightly improved the text |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #37023 |
Post edited: Slightly corrected/expanded the post |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #7841 |
Post edited: Introduced paragraph breaks, added a sentence about third-person limited narrators |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279313 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Old meta questions are incorrectly marked as imported in the user profile I just noticed that some of my old meta questions here are marked as imported on my profile page, although they clearly weren't (they were meta questions about this site; there's no reason why I would have asked about it on SE). Here's a screenshot showing an example: Screenshot of question inc... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279085 |
Done: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/279094 (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279085 |
Ah, thanks. There seem to be no shortcuts related to editing, though, therefore they also cannot fail in that case. But I noticed one unrelated problem: With "go to category" (g c), only the category list seems to work (g c c), not the individual categories (like g c 1). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279085 |
Actually up to now I wasn't even aware of the existence of keyboard shortcuts. I found the option to enable them in the preferences, but I can't find any description of what shortcuts are available. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279078 |
Thank you. BTW, what is the quickest way to get up to date with what happened in the mean time? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279085 |
Thanks for the reply. Actually I'm a laptop user, so I can both tap (on the touchpad) and click (on the “mouse” buttons below the touchpad). So that workaround works. A keyboard-only workaround is, of course, to just add the corresponding MarkDown manually. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279082 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Finishing link entry with enter sends the post instead I just got caught by something I consider a bug: I wanted to link to a web site, and used the link button above the entry box to do so. After I finished entering (or rather, pasting) the link into the pop-up box, I pressed enter to get it into the post. To my great surprise, this didn't cause the ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279079 |
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— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279079 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: mice don't tap and tablet-users don't click: what word can I use for all audiences instead? I just looked up what Borland wrote in their user manual of the Turbo Pascal UI back when using a mouse was optional and the UI could be operated also by keyboard (you don't click on the keyboard either). The word they used for buttons was “choose”. For example, this is an excerpt from their manual: ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279078 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Move old writing challenges to writing challenge category? I've been away for some time (for personal reasons), and noticed that we now have a category “writing challenges”. Now there are some old challenges in Meta which predate that category, but IMHO would be more logically placed there. Therefore my question: Should they be moved to that category? Is ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #39536 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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Spammers have found this site! I just noticed that when you go to the users page and select the age tab, the start of the list is dominated by user names that are obvious spam. While they are not very effective because few people are likely to see them, I still think something should be done about them. All of those seem to ... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39532 |
A false belief still can have very real consequences. Consequences that don't simply go away after you learn that your belief was false. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39532 |
For both. Having the reader know is great for a danger the protagonist doesn't know, but I don't think it helps building up tension if the reader already knows that the danger the protagonist believes to be in is actually *not* there. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39532 |
Thank you for the answer. The main reason I don't want to introduce the second viewpoint immediately is that at the beginning, the first protagonist expects that second protagonist to be a likely antagonist. I want to keep that uncertainty about her for some time. If I switched to her viewpoint early... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39531 |
Thank you for your answer. Besides Mistborn, do you have any other suggestions of novels that did introduce a new viewpoint very well? (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #39530 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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Does a point of view need to be introduced when or right after the character is introduced? In the novel I'm trying to write, I probably will have to introduce a second point of view because my initial main protagonist will be mostly unable to act after some point. Now I'm considering to shift the point of view to another character that is also introduced right in the first chapter. However... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #39529 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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Why can't I upvote this answer? I tried to upvote this answer but my vote doesn't seem to register. Maybe it is because it is owned by System, but then, there are other answers owned by System that already have upvotes. Note that I don't have any problems to upvote other answers on the same question. (Unrelated observation... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39524 |
@ArtOfCode: Thank you. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39520 |
Thank you. So if I understand correctly, “are a-coming” is sort of a double-continuous form. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #39524 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: Design changes are a-coming! I just noticed a small problem: When editing a comment, you get a miniscule comment box. Fortunately it can be resized. (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39520 |
What is the difference between “coming” and “a-coming”? I've never before encountered that word.
On the design: That was definitely a good change! (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #39518 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: How to write an introverted main character with accidental charisma That he has no ambitions to heroism or adventure doesn't mean he has no ambitions at all. It just means that his ambitions are of a different type. Maybe he has the ambition to learn everything he can about the plants in his surrounding. Not because he plans to do something specific with that knowled... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #39484 |
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— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #39484 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: Please gray out the usernames of automatically-imported accounts on the main Users listing This was originally intended as comment on ArtOfCode's answer, but got too long for that. Listing a name on the site's Users page IMHO very clearly claims that person is a user of the site. Note that this is not about the name displayed under imported posts (those are marked anyway), but about the... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #39480 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: Is there a formula for creating stakes? Your problem could be summarized as follows: > If your protagonist's life is really totally perfect in any way, he has no reason to change anything. End of story. So if you want to have a story, then the protagonist's life must not be perfect. It may look perfect, but there is still this one li... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #39479 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: Writing Challenge: A Long Way Home - Feb 1 2020 - Feb 22 2020 The Earth was not at its place. That was of course impossible. But Alice had checked all the data several times, and the space ship definitely was at the place where the Earth should be. Except that there was no planet at this place. Just empty space. It had been her very first interstellar fli... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #39418 | Initial revision | — | about 4 years ago |
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A: Letting a (secondary) antagonist leave mid story - Should it be avoided? One way to make the leaving of that secondary antagonist satisfying could be if it gives a problem for the protagonist. Now how could an antagonist leaving be a problem? Well, it is a problem if the protagonist's plans against the other antagonists required the presence of that antagonist. Maybe t... (more) |
— | about 4 years ago |