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Re: Aussie Rules: Rudd rocks the world. Pffffft. Yeah right.

You know absolutely nothing of the beauty of language. As a writer there is something stunning about the English language. It may not be "logical" as you say but whittling down words to phonetics is just plain ugly. I'd say that a number of Asian language are actually much more difficult...

No shit. I picked that from his first appearance

Actually I text using the exact same English that I use for essays, on the internet and in emails. I very rarely use any sort of abbreviation. Also, are you actually arguing that internet speak is a superior form of communication? God you're a moronic 08er. There are currently 600,000 words...

I've done the translation thing a looooot lately because of the hideous nature of many posts on BoS. First of all, it's rather infuriating to give a serious answer to a serious problem when the OP is using such bastardisation of the English language. Also "internet-speak" is lazy and ugly...

Ta dah: I'm in year 9 and attend a private school. I was suspended last year and I'm seeing the principal tomorrow because I committed a second offence last week. My friend and I as well as my "disappointed" parents think we are going to be expelled because my principal said last time that if...

Program is out. Jeanette Winterson and Junot Diaz are going to be there (doing the Opening and Closing Addresses, respectively) which is incredibly exciting. I love Winterson's novels.

Awesome. If one moron leaves then hopefully the rest will follow and you won't continue polluting the internet with your incorrect spelling and irritating taste in literature. If you'd bothered to read you'd would've seen this: I've read one of my lecturers full length books that she spent...

If you don't mind me asking, where are you doing the editing work?

I've only ever gotten highlights once about five years ago. Apart from that it's been my natural color since birth.

Sounds about right.

God. CC on the net? Pffft. People can't take it. I can see benefits in doing it privately as a writing exercise but I'm glad you see the issues with it on a larger scale. It's just getting worrying in the sense of the copyright and plagiarism and when a creative idea suddenly isn't yours...

I don't write genre fiction. You're still stuck in the idea that stories have to have genres *sigh* Now that's sad. Genre fiction is work that is written for a specific genre - these days it's normally sci fi, horror, fantasy or romance. I write fiction. Period. I'd like to call it literary...

You may acknowledge the source but that doesn't change the fact that you are still getting kudos for doing half the work. I really don't mind if people do it in private. In fact, if you're doing it as a writing exercise as a beginner it's probably helpful. As soon as you start putting it out on...

To be honest, it was just fun to annoy you to begin with. All you 08ers get so indignant and are so young and naive. I'd reply to all those points but again, it's getting boring because you're not getting as mad anymore. But there are some near flawless works out there. I'd cite The Reader by...

The funny thing is that a lot of people say that if someone was to "publish" fanfiction then they'd be against it however in the ever developing world of the internet, putting up work on a site like fanfiction.net is akin to publishing it. You are being recognised for the work, reviews are made...

Thank God for that. Also, writing formulaic novels aren't exactly hard. It's sort of like paint by numbers if you have a simple storyline and a host of flat characters. Writing an interesting novel with a more original storyline is a little more difficult. Plus I'm not the only person who...

"trite" = banal: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse. The ideas of the book are exactly that. As I said in my above post. Twilight is not quality storytelling. And the fanfic thing? I'm always going to think it's pretty terrible because I know how much work goes into creating...

I'll pm you. I don't particularly want to take this thread any more off track than I have.

Let's set one thing straight: I don't dislike it because it's popular. In fact, I personally think that Harry Potter (the most popular phenomenon in literature lately) was the best thing to happen to children's literature in the past decade or so. I dislike it because the idea is trite and it's...