Hello all! This blog will be sort of steampunky, sort of rambling, sometimes relating to coming things or the cutting edge of science, and usually combined in strange and unusual ways. A Penny Farthing is a type of bicycle by the way, the type with one big giant wheel in the front, which seem insane until you understand the technology at the time and the physics involved, and it really is a good way to make a bicycle. My blog is kind of like that. (p.s. I really want a penny farthing)
Monday, February 25, 2013
Pretentious, yes, but I like it too.
An announcement: I was reading some PG Wodehouse, and another book from the 20s called Free Air, and I noticed that they sometimes wrote 'phone, instead of phone, using the apostrophe to acknowledge the abbreviation of telephone. So I shall call this my 'blog. My other blog will still be called a blog. That is all.
In the first Star Wars tie-in novel (the movie novelization, ghostwrit by Alan Dean Foster, the droids are called 'droids.
ReplyDeleteIn Star Wars that has since gone by the wayside, I'd wager because 9/10 the writers now don't know droid is short for "android". In my writing, though, because androids are only one of several kinds of robots, I write, e.g., "assassin 'droid". Writing "'Bots", however, would be too much even for me.
Remember how Ms Dougherty insisted we call quotes "quotations"? Am I the only one who wanted to ask her if she also insisted on "omnibus station" and "taximeter cab"?