Don't expect it to be that different. The expectation created by this thread will be that hubski is special, and utterly unlike all other online forums. That expectation is false.
Yeah, I'm a big fan. I recommend/have had success with: - balsamic chicken thighs -zuppa toscana (ZOMG this is the best) -african peanut soup -thai curry vegetable soup -thai curry chicken - cucumber salad I like her stuff a lot. I'm trying to do rough meal planning (first week: a rough success!) so I've been doing a lot more cooking lately.
Never heard of it -- Thank you! Just perused with my roommate and we think we know what we want for dinner this week.Hey homeskillet if you don't know it check it; www.budgetbytes.com
Yeah, I'm a big fan. I recommend/have had success with: - balsamic chicken thighs -zuppa toscana (ZOMG this is the best) -african peanut soup -thai curry vegetable soup -thai curry chicken - cucumber salad I like her stuff a lot. I'm trying to do rough meal planning (first week: a rough success!) so I've been doing a lot more cooking lately.
I think the difficulty a non-native English speaker might have reading an English-language poem would echo the difficulties any reader would encounter, when they delve into creative writing (& yes especially poems) in languages that aren't their inundated born-and-bred own. That is to say I'd think the inherent difficulty there would center more around said poem's potential use of slang, idioms, bastardized idioms, mixed metaphors and one-off one-word half-references, than word-by-misspelled-or-poorly-grammared-word comprehension. I think poems especially offer great avenues for playing with words, language, sound and sense. They also beg to fill up with echoes of other rhymes, lines, poems, lyrics and evocative works. So it's hard to learn all the fables & folk songs of a different culture which speaks a different language; it's hard to know their pop music and puzzle out whether a turn of phrase is a bastardized idiom or an original, surreal or imagistic or otherwise unexpected use of words language invention. It would be hard to read a poem in a language you didn't grow up with because poems are more like quilts than they're like comforters - sure both of them make warm blankets but one's made out of blocks and patterns within patterns and fabrics from the clothes you grew up wearing out but couldn't part with. The other one's like two colors or has the same generic printed pattern of lines or polka dots which Target and a $50 price limit combine to guarantee. Both will keep you warm but one you'll throw out after it gets ragged and starts pooping increasingly-gross-graying cotton batting from its broken corners or side seams, approx 3-5 years after purchase. Sure it might be dramatic but basically what I'm saying is, it ain't the text that I expect would throw you. It's all the murky subtext you can't look up on genius or urban dictionary.
I honestly wasn't sure if it was your submission manager borking - you guys appear to use your own, as opposed to submittable, so I figured some intertube might be clogged up on some end or not sending automated emails the way it was supposed to. Which is why I thought I'd mention. You don't have to explain! I'm not trying to grief you here at all, more like "in case this is happening because things are broken but you don't know they're broken, because hey what editor emails themselves from their submission manager?" Sounds like it's been a wild ride. A friend was trying to convince me to start a lit mag (I was moaning about them) - I co-edited once, can't imagine bootstrapping a mag off the ground solo dolo. Lots of slog and for me, I don't know that I'd find much reward. Thanks for putting it in all caps. Title styling is a prickly pear of mine right now - I've been pretty deliberately choosing to style my titles as whatever they show up as with my poems (all caps, no caps, italics, quotes, etc etc) - what I've noticed is that as a whole even my favorite lit mag editors seem to blip out on titles/deliberately chosen titling conventions and make everyone's look the same. It's complicated (and probably boring to most people) because I think at least some lit mags do choose a standard title format convention as part of the "look" of their magazine... ...and when that convention is "all titles all-caps," it makes me happy, heh, at least for my capped-titled poems. Some days, too, it's hard enough just to get the damn poem formatted right on the webpage and I think any title-choices get lost in the cracks. I try to see the other perspectives and mostly, let go my foibles and be mellow and just happy to be published and understand. But damn it when I look at my caps-titled poems, that capped title makes a difference in my mind. So since I was buggin' ya I indulged my desire for "correct format" as well - and thank you for listening, and for changing it.
That's me. Thanks! One thing I did want to mention... (well ok actually there were several so I'm just sticking to the #1 important one) I've now submitted to Lit Cat twice. One rejection, one acceptance - but I never received an email for either. Legit found out my poem was accepted by getting the "hey contributed we're gone live!" Email yesterday. Maybe it's my email filter but I did kind of feel you might want to know - all I use is gmail, no hyper security features. Since it's happened now twice, could be there's a blarb or snurf on your submission manager's end if it's not my email. You're gonna know way better than I do but hey - figured I'd say something so you can check in case there is a problem, instead of sit tight and say nothing. PPS but my poems title is supposed to be in all caps tho (as it was stylized when sent thru to your group!)! /whine Thanks tho, I submitted to this because you're a hubskier, Cool to support folks I know when I can.
Omg. I'm really mortified, I'm sorry. I'm glad you saw this post at least, but damn, it's probably not the best to find out this way. I don't really have a good explanation for the lack of emails. I wasn't consistent with rejection emails when I was running it by myself, and then there was a spate of drama between me and an old editor. Then there's the fact that there's been three different services used to handle submissions over the past 6 months because I keep changing it. The first email is lost somewhere there. The 2nd email is somewhere with between me and the new editors I'm bringing on. I didn't really check if they sent acceptance letters. I'm going to bring it up with them later today. I fixed the title back to all caps, sorry about that. Thanks for submitting to my mess of a project.
I honestly wasn't sure if it was your submission manager borking - you guys appear to use your own, as opposed to submittable, so I figured some intertube might be clogged up on some end or not sending automated emails the way it was supposed to. Which is why I thought I'd mention. You don't have to explain! I'm not trying to grief you here at all, more like "in case this is happening because things are broken but you don't know they're broken, because hey what editor emails themselves from their submission manager?" Sounds like it's been a wild ride. A friend was trying to convince me to start a lit mag (I was moaning about them) - I co-edited once, can't imagine bootstrapping a mag off the ground solo dolo. Lots of slog and for me, I don't know that I'd find much reward. Thanks for putting it in all caps. Title styling is a prickly pear of mine right now - I've been pretty deliberately choosing to style my titles as whatever they show up as with my poems (all caps, no caps, italics, quotes, etc etc) - what I've noticed is that as a whole even my favorite lit mag editors seem to blip out on titles/deliberately chosen titling conventions and make everyone's look the same. It's complicated (and probably boring to most people) because I think at least some lit mags do choose a standard title format convention as part of the "look" of their magazine... ...and when that convention is "all titles all-caps," it makes me happy, heh, at least for my capped-titled poems. Some days, too, it's hard enough just to get the damn poem formatted right on the webpage and I think any title-choices get lost in the cracks. I try to see the other perspectives and mostly, let go my foibles and be mellow and just happy to be published and understand. But damn it when I look at my caps-titled poems, that capped title makes a difference in my mind. So since I was buggin' ya I indulged my desire for "correct format" as well - and thank you for listening, and for changing it.
They come and go dependent. Written language is a method of communication - things like spelling, punctuation and capitalization are, to me, just elements of that method which can be manipulated, altered, or simply invoked to help convey shades of meaning in the same way as the use of bold, italics, third/first/&c. person, interjections, quotations, and etc are (more commonly) accepted and used to. It would take a high level review of multiple of my published poems to maybe perceive the "big picture" of how I like to fuck with capitals and punctuation/lack-thereof, but it's a been long term fuckwiddit thing I like to do. I imagine for a non-native English speaker it may make the reading more difficult. I guess my real point is that if I misspell a word, it's more likely on purpose than not. Same with using incorrect grammar or unusual punctuation.
Eloquently put. I must say: it's a bigger pleasure seeing a message written according to a higher standard. Your using "&c.", in particular, is an eye candy. Not that I expect it to change your ways: your choice of mistreating spelling is a conscious one, and I know you to be a woman of conviction. As for me: a very high number of things I read - let's approximate it as 95%, for clarity's sake - over the last five years are in English in all of its various forms, including forums where people bother with spelling much less than most I've seen would. At this point, I find the concern of my having a hard time reading an English poem to be unreasonable as long as it uses modern English. I may stumble a time or two, but that's everyone's lot, and I think it does not disqualify me from the C1 I claim to have (if you don't know what it means, google "CEFR": you should know what the rest of the world is up to).
I think the difficulty a non-native English speaker might have reading an English-language poem would echo the difficulties any reader would encounter, when they delve into creative writing (& yes especially poems) in languages that aren't their inundated born-and-bred own. That is to say I'd think the inherent difficulty there would center more around said poem's potential use of slang, idioms, bastardized idioms, mixed metaphors and one-off one-word half-references, than word-by-misspelled-or-poorly-grammared-word comprehension. I think poems especially offer great avenues for playing with words, language, sound and sense. They also beg to fill up with echoes of other rhymes, lines, poems, lyrics and evocative works. So it's hard to learn all the fables & folk songs of a different culture which speaks a different language; it's hard to know their pop music and puzzle out whether a turn of phrase is a bastardized idiom or an original, surreal or imagistic or otherwise unexpected use of words language invention. It would be hard to read a poem in a language you didn't grow up with because poems are more like quilts than they're like comforters - sure both of them make warm blankets but one's made out of blocks and patterns within patterns and fabrics from the clothes you grew up wearing out but couldn't part with. The other one's like two colors or has the same generic printed pattern of lines or polka dots which Target and a $50 price limit combine to guarantee. Both will keep you warm but one you'll throw out after it gets ragged and starts pooping increasingly-gross-graying cotton batting from its broken corners or side seams, approx 3-5 years after purchase. Sure it might be dramatic but basically what I'm saying is, it ain't the text that I expect would throw you. It's all the murky subtext you can't look up on genius or urban dictionary.
If Matt Groening can use it in parody to describe pseudointellectuals, I feel comfortable with an occasional expression of my personal dislike.
They come and go dependent. Written language is a method of communication - things like spelling, punctuation and capitalization are, to me, just elements of that method which can be manipulated, altered, or simply invoked to help convey shades of meaning in the same way as the use of bold, italics, third/first/&c. person, interjections, quotations, and etc are (more commonly) accepted and used to. It would take a high level review of multiple of my published poems to maybe perceive the "big picture" of how I like to fuck with capitals and punctuation/lack-thereof, but it's a been long term fuckwiddit thing I like to do. I imagine for a non-native English speaker it may make the reading more difficult. I guess my real point is that if I misspell a word, it's more likely on purpose than not. Same with using incorrect grammar or unusual punctuation.
Eloquently put. I must say: it's a bigger pleasure seeing a message written according to a higher standard. Your using "&c.", in particular, is an eye candy. Not that I expect it to change your ways: your choice of mistreating spelling is a conscious one, and I know you to be a woman of conviction. As for me: a very high number of things I read - let's approximate it as 95%, for clarity's sake - over the last five years are in English in all of its various forms, including forums where people bother with spelling much less than most I've seen would. At this point, I find the concern of my having a hard time reading an English poem to be unreasonable as long as it uses modern English. I may stumble a time or two, but that's everyone's lot, and I think it does not disqualify me from the C1 I claim to have (if you don't know what it means, google "CEFR": you should know what the rest of the world is up to).
I think the difficulty a non-native English speaker might have reading an English-language poem would echo the difficulties any reader would encounter, when they delve into creative writing (& yes especially poems) in languages that aren't their inundated born-and-bred own. That is to say I'd think the inherent difficulty there would center more around said poem's potential use of slang, idioms, bastardized idioms, mixed metaphors and one-off one-word half-references, than word-by-misspelled-or-poorly-grammared-word comprehension. I think poems especially offer great avenues for playing with words, language, sound and sense. They also beg to fill up with echoes of other rhymes, lines, poems, lyrics and evocative works. So it's hard to learn all the fables & folk songs of a different culture which speaks a different language; it's hard to know their pop music and puzzle out whether a turn of phrase is a bastardized idiom or an original, surreal or imagistic or otherwise unexpected use of words language invention. It would be hard to read a poem in a language you didn't grow up with because poems are more like quilts than they're like comforters - sure both of them make warm blankets but one's made out of blocks and patterns within patterns and fabrics from the clothes you grew up wearing out but couldn't part with. The other one's like two colors or has the same generic printed pattern of lines or polka dots which Target and a $50 price limit combine to guarantee. Both will keep you warm but one you'll throw out after it gets ragged and starts pooping increasingly-gross-graying cotton batting from its broken corners or side seams, approx 3-5 years after purchase. Sure it might be dramatic but basically what I'm saying is, it ain't the text that I expect would throw you. It's all the murky subtext you can't look up on genius or urban dictionary.
LOL I knew. I read Stranger millennia ago, and so on. But just cuz something exists and has an accepted common usage doesn't mean I have to like it or that I can't snark about it. Grok has a decidedly neckbeardish/D&D, Wow, empty 2-liters and accumulated delivery food waste connotation for me -- and its coinage by Heinlein certainly doesn't do anything to wash the word clean of that taste. Hey. Some people love cilantro, some people can't fucking stand it. Just don't mistake my aversion for ignorance.
dude grok has been a viable part of pop culture for fifty fuckin' years. Matt Groening used it in parody to describe pseudointellectuals back when he was writing Life in Hell, ten years before he was even approached about The Simpsons. Just 'cuz you don't know a word doesn't mean it isn't a perfectly viable word. Heinlein coined the term "waldo" as well, and also invented the waterbed (for better or worse). In fact, the number of words you use from science fiction is probably absurdly higher than you're aware.
LOL I knew. I read Stranger millennia ago, and so on. But just cuz something exists and has an accepted common usage doesn't mean I have to like it or that I can't snark about it. Grok has a decidedly neckbeardish/D&D, Wow, empty 2-liters and accumulated delivery food waste connotation for me -- and its coinage by Heinlein certainly doesn't do anything to wash the word clean of that taste. Hey. Some people love cilantro, some people can't fucking stand it. Just don't mistake my aversion for ignorance.
Apologies for the lazy attempt at some rhymes Now I see they be wasting your... time. Shit. I still suck at rhyming.
Now I see they be wasting your... time. Shit. I still suck at rhyming. You don't suck at rhyming: you sucked at a rhyme! That's AABA for ya. You know how Devac gets his share of fun from making maths- and physics-related jokes? Here's one for the part-philologist guy here. :DApologies for the lazy attempt at some rhymes
I remember you being angry about shit. I don't remember you being needlessly angry.
They come and go dependent. Written language is a method of communication - things like spelling, punctuation and capitalization are, to me, just elements of that method which can be manipulated, altered, or simply invoked to help convey shades of meaning in the same way as the use of bold, italics, third/first/&c. person, interjections, quotations, and etc are (more commonly) accepted and used to. It would take a high level review of multiple of my published poems to maybe perceive the "big picture" of how I like to fuck with capitals and punctuation/lack-thereof, but it's a been long term fuckwiddit thing I like to do. I imagine for a non-native English speaker it may make the reading more difficult. I guess my real point is that if I misspell a word, it's more likely on purpose than not. Same with using incorrect grammar or unusual punctuation.
Eloquently put. I must say: it's a bigger pleasure seeing a message written according to a higher standard. Your using "&c.", in particular, is an eye candy. Not that I expect it to change your ways: your choice of mistreating spelling is a conscious one, and I know you to be a woman of conviction. As for me: a very high number of things I read - let's approximate it as 95%, for clarity's sake - over the last five years are in English in all of its various forms, including forums where people bother with spelling much less than most I've seen would. At this point, I find the concern of my having a hard time reading an English poem to be unreasonable as long as it uses modern English. I may stumble a time or two, but that's everyone's lot, and I think it does not disqualify me from the C1 I claim to have (if you don't know what it means, google "CEFR": you should know what the rest of the world is up to).
I think the difficulty a non-native English speaker might have reading an English-language poem would echo the difficulties any reader would encounter, when they delve into creative writing (& yes especially poems) in languages that aren't their inundated born-and-bred own. That is to say I'd think the inherent difficulty there would center more around said poem's potential use of slang, idioms, bastardized idioms, mixed metaphors and one-off one-word half-references, than word-by-misspelled-or-poorly-grammared-word comprehension. I think poems especially offer great avenues for playing with words, language, sound and sense. They also beg to fill up with echoes of other rhymes, lines, poems, lyrics and evocative works. So it's hard to learn all the fables & folk songs of a different culture which speaks a different language; it's hard to know their pop music and puzzle out whether a turn of phrase is a bastardized idiom or an original, surreal or imagistic or otherwise unexpected use of words language invention. It would be hard to read a poem in a language you didn't grow up with because poems are more like quilts than they're like comforters - sure both of them make warm blankets but one's made out of blocks and patterns within patterns and fabrics from the clothes you grew up wearing out but couldn't part with. The other one's like two colors or has the same generic printed pattern of lines or polka dots which Target and a $50 price limit combine to guarantee. Both will keep you warm but one you'll throw out after it gets ragged and starts pooping increasingly-gross-graying cotton batting from its broken corners or side seams, approx 3-5 years after purchase. Sure it might be dramatic but basically what I'm saying is, it ain't the text that I expect would throw you. It's all the murky subtext you can't look up on genius or urban dictionary.
