Timewaster's Guide Archive

huh.  That's interesting.

Is the Korean system considered moraic?  It seems so according to what you noted earlier.  These are the things that aren't put in the $20 language books at the JC level. 

Though if you can consider hiragana and kanji both glyphs, and glyphs can be considered characters, then why call the Chinese system (and thus kanji) "character writing" and not "glyph writing"?

With Electrum, you get the same feedback effect.  You see what you are going to do, which in turn changes what you decide to actually do.  If you see yourself dieing, you dodge the blow, which means you move differently, which means the Atium burner sees two different shadows, which changes how he decides to attack, which changes what you see happening to yourself, which means you do something different, which creates more shadows which...

If I'm not mistaken this happens with atium anyway?  At any moment there are a set number of things anyone can do, this is what a person without atium would know.  Burning atium just gives a "most probable future", right?  In the second book that's how Vin beat Zane.  She mentally prepared a future then changed it at the last moment giving Zane two atium shadows.  I need to go back and read the initial introduction of atium to Vin...

Logically, If someone has no solid future event then it's much more difficult for a solid atium read.

Quote from: miyabi on September 29, 2008, 03:13:30 PM

I've thought of that one, but I'm pretty sure that people in Idaho would look at me like I was insane. ha ha.

I'm sure they think nothing of it if you periodically insert Japanese words into your conversation.   

white person saying eh? = eh.
white person saying anything randomly in japanese = total nerd and a lot of people might consider them racist.

I'd go with eh, if I were you, la.

All the used books I've bought weren't written in or highlighted. And the bookstores don't give you much money when you sell them back to them anyway.

But you're right, there is some leeway in these kind of assignments. That's probably why so many people disagree with me. I'm barely on the wrong side of the line while everybody else seems to be right across from me on the other side.

First it's called research and it's big biz.  Let's say the OP found an essay on the characterization in Mistborn, then read that essay and quoted from it...  it's not cheating.  It's actually - honestly - OFTEN a required part of the paper.  I can't tell you how many professors say "find sources in the text to support your claim then find sources outside the text to support your claim."

This is "find sources outside the text" and the OP might actually do -quite well- to quote (and cite) some of what has been said here.

I agree somewhat with those who consider the Well to be the Metal Lake.  If not:

There's supposed to be two.  Alendi/Rashek.  Vin/Elend (though I suspect it was supposed to be Vin/Sazed).   The "Hero" and the... well... opposite.  One to take the power, one to suffer a massive wound so the person taking the power would use it rather than release it.

'Gods' on earth.  Ruin/Preservation as embodied by those who take the power.  "The Hero of Ages"?   His initial title was 'the final hero'?  What massive havoc that would cause.  What epic 'end of the world' showdown between the two ultimates?

*shrug*  So... again... someone did wrong.  Last time Rashek killed his opposite and this time Vin let the power go.

On most boards it seems there are two main rules:

1) don't rez old threads.
2) don't post a new thread on a topic where an old thread exists.

Basically.. if the board has already discussed it, it's over.

Did you just reply to me instead of the RP (rezzing poster)?   

I def think that you should go with Vegas' suggestion. ha ha.

It was Siri on the cover ne?(WE REALLY need an English equivalent to ne that doesn't sound stupid.)

You mean "no?"