[LNH] 58.5 #45: Who Cares If Anyone Reads This, I'm Going to Finish It!

[Andrew Perron]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:49:23 +0000 (UTC), Lalo Martins
<lalo.martins at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Hmmmmm.  Possibly, non-intelligent life could survive the lack of drama;
>> of course, IIRC, we saw plants and stuff dying in LOH (I really need to
>> re-read that too), so... hmmm.
>
>No, you're right that on Earth all life was destroyed.  My point is that, 
>as far as I remember, Paul never said anything about that being done to 
>the whole universe.  But, as I said, I may be wrong :-)

Well, I'm not sure how it wouldn't be that way; would the lack of
Writers and Drama destroy Earth but leave the rest of the universe
untouched?  Heck, I'd think Earth would last the longest, simply
because it's had the most drama pumped into it over the years. Unless
other planets are being sustained by some of those alien comic book
authors Fourth Wall Lass is always going on about...

>> You'd say "is no fish" if you were talking about a single, specific
>> fish.  If you're talking about fish in general, you'd say "are no fish".
>> >.>
>
>Maybe that's what the norm, colloquially you'll more often hear "there's 
>no fish" (although it *is* odd that I used "there is" instead), and I 
>believe dialogue should follow the colloquial practise rather than the 
>norm.  (Also note, when I'm myself I prefer British spelling, but when 
>writing I go with American because that's the newsgroup's convention.)

Ahhhhh.  Well, if you're going for a specific colloquial dialect,
that's something else, but it seems odd to give it to a character who
has, like, two lines. >>

>But above and overriding that, the main point is that this line is a 
>quote, and therefore, it's not up to me to correct the original ;-)

...>.>

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, just *looking* at you.