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rosie_rues ([personal profile] rosie_rues) wrote2006-05-29 08:59 pm
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Summer of the Dragon: Apologies

Sorry - chapter two won't be up until tomorrow. Because I am crap and disorganised, and what I have is handwritten and needs to be typed up.

In the meantime, have a random picture of one of the many places I have been today...



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As taken at ten to six this evening.

a.k.a. it would have only been a six-hour round trip to go home, if I hadn't been dropped into an impromptu family reunion...



Um, imperioed? imperio'ed? imperied? imperio'd? imperavit?
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[identity profile] rosemaryandrue.livejournal.com 2006-05-29 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
*chuckles* I'm only messing about with the Latin to stay awake. Considering how erratic JKR's Latin is, I don't think fandom should take the language too seriously.

I was just worried there might be an official spelling I'd forgotten. They all look peculiar to me.

[identity profile] ex-stateline124.livejournal.com 2006-05-29 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
hee, i know that feeling. "oh, this is just a minor detail, but LOOK AT ALL THE SHINY PICTURES WIKIPEDIA HAS!" if i didn't spend so much time "researching" for fics, i might actually write one every once in a while. :D

the apostrophe version -- say, like, Imperio'ed -- might be the easiest to read, since all the vowels make 'Imperioed' a bit messy.

in the interest of grammar fanaticism...

[identity profile] sweet-angel-398.livejournal.com 2006-05-30 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
i disagree. apostrophes don't belong anywhere except for contractions and possessiveness, and if you go sticking them in places they don't belong it'll end up being seen as a typo by at least some who read it. I think Imperioed is perfectly valid. A few vowels never hurt anyone; just look at the rest of the English language, after all.

At any rate, I'm psyched for chapter 2!!! Yayyyyyyy.

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Re: in the interest of grammar fanaticism...

[identity profile] rosemaryandrue.livejournal.com 2006-05-30 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
That's certainly my gut-reaction as well - apostrophes indicate omission (even in possession where they're a remnant of the old genitive -es ending). I have seen the word with the apostrophe, though, so I was worried that might be the official version.

*chuckles* 15 more minutes at work, and I can dash home to finish it.