h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If you could hang off on subbing this one for a bit, because there are a few small changes I want to make to it. I'll edit the original at A792137 and let you know when I'm done.

Cheers!
-Martin

Oh, good call. This is going to require less subbing than the rest in my batch, anyway.

B

All yours, baby!

-Lucinda

Do I take it that it has been so well edited by now that I can just hit the 'Return to Editors' button and think no more of it?

B

no, first you have to go to test792137 and copy the GuideML from there over the copy this thread is attached to. THEN you can just click 'Return to Editors'...

Though a second pair of eyes is always helpful, right?

-Lucinda

*rhubarbrhubarb*

Suppose I'd better read this garbage now...

B

Ho hum, that's interesting - the whole thing's disappeared (this one, not the original). Can you see it, or is it just a bug on my part?

B

*shrug* looks there to me...

It's re-appeared now - for a worrying minute there, I had an empty entry being created from a hundred lines or so of ML.

Right - to work!

B

You've spelt Fate with a capital F. Aside from the obvious classical reference, is there any real reason for this?

Alternatively, should I footnote that this is a deliberate capitalisation, to signify the _being_ fate from the everyday fate that happens to everyone.

Or shall I just make it Lower Case, before I start sounding too much like Pratchett?

B

And another one...

"subverting causality by going into the past or back to the future"

This doesn't actually make sense as it stands (well, not to me anyway). Re-phrase? And do you want a link to the film putting in, or would that be too tacky?

B

Number 3 (I could save all these for one post, but I'm not that organised).

Your use of [sic] baffles me. It usually signifies that a quote has been copied exactly and any obvious errors are atrributable to the original source.

What did you have in mind?

B

The capital 'F' is a typo.

By all means rephrase that sentence if you think it's unclear as is. Can't think of anything myself, I'm afraid.

Oh, "the paradoxesit presents" - I missed a space...

Way ahead of you on the space!

I've chucked in a couple of links and tweaked it cosmetically, otherwise not much else.

B

And [sic]?

B

I meant that once time travel has been invented, the question of not having enough time becomes slightly dubious. I didn't want smartass readers telling me this, so I put [sic] there to indicate that I was aware of this potential error...

Hmmm...I'm not convinced it's completely correct usage.

How about a footnote instead?

B

http://www.dictionary.com/search?r=67&q=sic

'WordNet' has "intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase)", which would back up my use of the word as being reasonable, if maybe not ideal.

I've no strong objections to your using a footnote instead.

OK...in the strictly semantic sense, I agree with you - it's just that the sign has customarily been used more and more within quoted material.

Also, if no-one sees the time time problem, they are inevitably going to wonder why the [sic] has appeared. A footnote is more all encompassing.

B

Footnote looks good.

Could you get A398955 changes so it points here rather than having its own paragraph on 'visitors from the future' ?