Activity for celtschk
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| Comment | Post #292798 |
I don't plan changing it. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292798 |
Yes, the last sentence doesn't end with a full stop. That would have been the 81st character. But I think it missing also makes a point of running out of characters, so it fits the text. (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292798 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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A: Short short story John had a short life. Right after he was born, he was running out of characters (more) |
— | 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292677 |
Post edited: Typo |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292677 |
Post edited: Made Markdown respect my line breaks. |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292677 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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A: Ode to Soap, blank verse Oh soap, why must you be so slippery? You're great to clean the body or the hands, but this utility is much reduced if you, whenever used, just slip away. I'm not a native speaker of English, so I hope my meter isn't too much off. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #291843 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: Writing challenge: Sentence free Sentence free, meaning no sentence, possible? Depending on definition, probably. This text, sentence free? No wrong answers. Well, in that case, sentence free or not irrelevant. Or not? Anyway, without the prompt, probably just looking like bad English. Well, probably bad English anyways. But then... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #39479 |
Post edited: Fixed typos |
— | about 2 years 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) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281837 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281079 |
Post edited: |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281079 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 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) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #28127 |
Post edited: Slightly improved the text |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #37023 |
Post edited: Slightly corrected/expanded the post |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #7841 |
Post edited: Introduced paragraph breaks, added a sentence about third-person limited narrators |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279313 | Initial revision | — | about 4 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) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279085 |
Done: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/279094 (more) |
— | about 4 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) |
— | about 4 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) |
— | about 4 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) |
— | about 4 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) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279082 | Initial revision | — | about 4 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) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279079 |
Post edited: |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279079 | Initial revision | — | about 4 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) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279078 | Initial revision | — | about 4 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) |
— | about 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #39536 | Initial revision | — | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 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) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #39530 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 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) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #39529 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 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) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39524 |
@ArtOfCode: Thank you. (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
| Comment | Post #39520 |
Thank you. So if I understand correctly, “are a-coming” is sort of a double-continuous form. (more) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #39524 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 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) |
— | almost 5 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) |
— | almost 5 years ago |
| Edit | Post #39518 | Initial revision | — | almost 5 years ago |