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

Do you know the proper Greek names for the five types?

I agree...good stuff! Interesting and entrtaining!

The Greek would be an interesting twist. Also, at the risk of being a nitpicker, run it through a spellcheck. Saves the sub-editors time and headache!

NM

No, I don't but that would be keen to impress girls at bars. Do tell.

In all my wanderings, I have never faced a villain more vile than spelling, it's a truly cursed thing. I did, incidentally, run it through a spell check, but I guess it missed something, but dammed if I know what it is.

Eros - sexual love
Agape - love that God has for us
Storge - ?
Philos - brotherly love
? - ?

hmm not great!
Something like that anyway. The Greeks divided love into five categories, I'm not sure if it is into the categories in the article.
I've just installed a high powered spell checker/dictionary/thesaurus on my computer, but like most others, it's American, which can be annoying (I'm British). And it didn't list 'Poo' which surprises me.

Poo is spelled "p-o-o"

I saw a couple as I read it....but didn't make a mental note of what they were.

As far as spell checkers go, you ought to be around here! Monsy has both US and UK installed. The UK is necessary for her H2G2 work, but I can promise you it makes for some interesting e-mail comments around here if we don't remember to change it over when she's through!!LOL

NM

HHMMM....I must have been reading it crosseyed yesterday! Everything looks fine today! My appologies!

NM

So, let's settle this right out, is it "plough" or "plow"?

HHMMM...I suppose it depends on what part of the world you're in. Around here, it's "plow". Actually plow isn't used much, though. The word "turn" is the prefered local term...as in, "Ah'm gonna' go an' turn 'nat field out yunner' tamahrry."

NM

But what of the noun? Surely you don't say "I'm going to use this 'turn' here to go 'turn' that land" do you? Britishly we say "Oh pip-pip jolly good, I do believe I'll take my plough and plough the field for a while, then I'll have some smashing tea and biscuits and morn the empire, because I'm so bloody British and all." At least that's what I say. Anyway, right now tea sounds smashing.

Cheerio-
Ben Duluth

lol. Very good stuff. I'd use plow, as I'm fairly sure that's the spelling in my dictionary.

BTW, I'm in the middle of applying to be a sub-ed. I'm supposed to look for this stuff.

You might want to put your entries in GuideML. Makes less work for us [potential] sub-eds. Below is a link to the Sub-editors Guide to Approved GuideML. It's easy, once you get the hang of it.

http://www.h2g2.com/A264520

It will also give you some help with proper footnoting.

Good work.

-jb

Oh, thank you very much. I use a lot of foot notes and would very much appreciate knowing how to do such properly. Please relate any information on how to make reading these articles easier, as I never want reading to be a burden (goes against my philosophy).

All right, I tired putting the entry in GuideML and it came up all screwy with no line breaks to sperate my footnotes from my body! Oh dear, oh dear, what to do, what to do?

-Been Duluthed

Ok, try something like this:




try your paragraphs here withyour footnote text in here and don't forget to close all your tags.


you can do more paragraphs here, the tag will automatically put a break ( break is very special, you don't have to close it or use two tags, like , as long as you write it <br/&gt in for you, so you don't have to.




Any more questions, feel free to ask. I must log off soon, though, so I might be a little time answering them.

-jb

tags? o dear o dear o dear

Sorry.

-jb

Don't be

-Ben Duluth

Ok... :-p

-jb

Regarding plo(w/ugh)s and subediting, perhaps you ought to note that H2G2 officially uses English spelling as opposed to American, so maybe you should use plough. The English thing is the first rule in the Subeditor's guide.