FOR WRITERS: Speaking the Times
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Hank T. Cannon: When writing historical or time travel stories, how much effort do you put into researching time-appropriate lingo? Do your … Read more
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FOR WRITERS: Alien Languages
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Christine Wright: Do you address alien languages in your books? Do you write them and have a character / device translate, left … Read more
FOR READERS: Alien Terms
FOR READERS Today’s reader topic comes from QSFer Christine Wright: Do you prefer a writer to stick with terms you can easily identify with or new terms for alien/fantasy items, … Read more
QUEER HISTORY: Polari, the World’s First Gay Language
“Bona to vada your dolly old eek!” That may seem like a string of nonsense words from Dr Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat or Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange … Read more
LGBT Slang – Discussion Point
The LGBT community has gone through many changes over the years and one aspect of that is its evolving lexicon. I thought it would be interesting to discuss this both … Read more
FOR WRITERS: Which Spelling?
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Christine Wright: Writer question to ask the FB group – writers, British or American spelling? Recently had a British author get bad … Read more
FOR WRITERS: Alien Languages
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Christine Wright: Addressing alien languages in your books? Did you write them and have a character / device translate, left it untranslated … Read more
Paramount Claims Copyright on the Klingon Language
Paramount is suing the makers of a crowd-funded Star Trek fan film on multiple copyright grounds. But what’s got the Trekkie world buzzing is Paramount’s claim on the Klingon language, … Read more
The Totes Amazing Way Millennials Are Changing the Language
There’s a way that young people talk these days, and it’s totes hilars. You see it on Twitter a lot, people exclaiming about their totes delish spags or their totes … Read more
Discussion: Gay Speculative Fiction in Other Languages
Is speculative fic (especially the LGBT variety) essentially an English language thing? Our gay Italian friends are here, and one of the LOVES sci fi, but he mostly knows it … Read more