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

Entry: Toasting in Georgia - A1023733
Author: Jodan - Mining 42 [Made a guru on a Sodit! Not a Thing] - U201497

A bit of a dry subject...

Hey that's almost a pun!

Anyway... if Anhaga comes and corrects my grammar one more, time? I'll him!

So, this is Scheverdnadze's Georgia, right? Next to Chechnya? Not Jimmy Carter's right? Or was Jimmy Carter a tamada?

I'm very pleased to see Georgia unqualified by explanatory "former-"s. I'm not even going to look at your grammar.

Yes, this is the Georgia in Europe.

I'm pleased you are pleased

I think you should make it clear in the entry that you're referring to the Georgia that's in Europe.

I also think some proofreading would help the entry quite a bit -- as it stands, there are more than a few incomplete sentences and others are run-ons. If you don't feel comfortable tackling this on your own, just let us know -- the entry is short enough that people could probably point things out individually here in Peer Review. Theoretically, you could just wait for the entry to be picked and let a sub-editor do all the cleaning up, but I think the entry has a much better chance of being picked if you try and do some of the cleaning up yourself.

It's a very interesting topic, though.

My .

See how he did that anhaga? Learn!

Thanks, I have grammar troubles. I feel quite proud of myself that I had the presence of mind to run this through spell check.

I'll work on it, and I'll add a footnote or something to clarify the continent.

I would have helped Jodan with the grammar but I don't want to be schuted.

Shawt.

now who's correcting whom?

Good point. Reminds me, I have to work on that who-whom entry

Alright Anhaga, give me the grammar when you get the chance. I'm looking through it, and I can spot some, but no way to readily fix it. I also think I'm misusing a semicolon

I'll try to take a look later on tonight.

Okay, I'm helpless. I'm going to go read at your edmonton entry. I never properly read it

Did you notice I got the picture on the front page two days in a row, yesterday and today?

Just patting myself on the back.

Yes, I noticed. Both editor's selections. Well done. I only have 2 recommended, which I happen to think is pretty good. How many do you have? Six?

I've got two that aren't even in PR.

Actually, I don't have any in PR: they're all either recommended, pending, or edited. But I'm not going to write any more for a while, I've decided.

I've decided I'm not writing any difficult subjects anymore. Hence, this one. What makes you not want to write? Saturating the EG

No, it's a seasonal thing. I won't have time until the earth gets to the other side of the sun.

But I'll have time to check your grammar.

Tax season over here...

I'd love to help with your entries, but they never stay in PR very long. I can see how you'd rather not write entries, by my reckoning, it must take you three weeks in front of the computer to write all of this!

I'm also trying to get more involved in the community. Live up to my spiffy new Guru badge

actually, I've written most of them at night. I follow the dictum of Michel de Montaigne and write about what I know. Plus, I am by training an academic; writing articles is what I do. My method for the Edmonton one was to just make a long list of links all formated for guideml and then I spent an evening or so filling in the gaps with text. Beowulf I did pretty much from memory. It hasn't been any great magic, just a knowledge of some tricks and methods of writing gleened from years of researching and writing for scholarly journals.

Actually, no. I'm just great! Bow down before me!


I must say, you do have great ambition in some of your subject choices. That was one of the first things I had hammered into me in grad school: narrow your subject. narrow, narrow, narrow. My first publication was on one word.

Yes. My favorite character in HHGG's publication was two words. Mostly Harmless

I narrowed my subject in the Grand Canyon one. It's now just visiting the Grand Canyon.