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I mean it's not really a synonym for said. It means something like 'exclaimed'. You know - a sudden eruption. Of words. e: "by Jove, a new page!" she ejaculated
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ynohtna posted:Hey, I'm wuthering here! she wuthering on my heights
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Aug 27, 2022 11:59
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To be fair there were moments where Wuthering Heights seemed to be poking fun at the expectations of the time with some backhanded moments like "She had become beautifully pale after years of doing absolutely nothing" once Catherine is sent to live with the Lintons.
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Aug 27, 2022 12:14
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Theres at least one Holmes story where someone ejaculates out an open window.
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The Wicked ZOGA posted:she wuthering on my heights call it Kate's Bush OK I'm done now
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SiKboy posted:Theres at least one Holmes story where someone ejaculates out an open window. If it was "A Study in Scarlet," please see a urologist immediately
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Aug 27, 2022 13:17
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Conan the Barbarian ejaculates all the time too. Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xZQ0YZ7ls4
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SiKboy posted:Theres at least one Holmes story where someone ejaculates out an open window. Tristram Shandy does this as well, but the window slams down on his dick and he loses a few inches.
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Aug 27, 2022 13:47
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I think JK Rowling was the very last English author to use 'ejaculate' in that sense.
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That being an image we ALL deserve to mentally picture,
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CJacobs posted:That being an image we ALL deserve to mentally picture, shake your mother fuckin back shorty / ah snape snape snape / a say what /snape snape snape snape / lets get it goin / snape snape snape / come on aww snape snape / snape snape snape ahh ahh / that ain't crunk enough
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HopperUK posted:I mean it's not really a synonym for said. It means something like 'exclaimed'. You know - a sudden eruption. Of words. It's not a perfect synonym, but the basic action performed by the verb is the same "by Jove, a new page!" she said works just fine to convey the same point. The sudden eruption part is better conveyed in other ways than using a weird "said" alternative.
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"I'm cumming! " he ejaculated.
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CJacobs posted:That being an image we ALL deserve to mentally picture, Did Snape cause Slughorn to ejaculate, or is Snape's ejaculate Slughorn?
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MrUnderbridge posted:"I'm cumming! " he ejaculated. Oh come now, be more descriptive than THAT when you're ejaculating.
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Nothing will ever top "The Traveller's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed" by Wilkie Collins:quote:The old soldier wagged his head, rolled his goggle-eyes, until I expected to see them slip out of their sockets; placed his dirty forefinger by the side of his broken nose; solemnly ejaculated "Coffee!" and immediately ran off into an inner room.
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Picture I'm Drew Carey on Whose line pulling out a card that says times when they should absolutely not have sent a poet
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"I'm ejaculating!" he cummed.
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we're all thinking it about Rowling lately, and it's been tweeted to death, but I think it needs to be stated bluntly: she uses "___ said" way too much
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SiKboy posted:Theres at least one Holmes story where someone ejaculates out an open window. No, that's the Folsom Street Fair.
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i’ve heard at least one story of a dude jerking it from a window at the folsom street fair. i imagine it wasn’t the first or the last time.
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Analytic Engine posted:we're all thinking it about Rowling lately, and it's been tweeted to death, but I think it needs to be stated bluntly: It's standard writing instruction to use "said" whenever possible. You're only meant to use an adjective when the way in which the spoken words are presented is more important than the specific content. For example, take "'JK Rowling is a bigoted cow and a lovely writer'". If you add "... he said" then it's an opinion to be judged on its merits. If you instead add "... he shouted", the emphasis of the sentence becomes the anger of the speaker and now you're judging what was said on his merits.
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Yeah I've always understood "said" to be sort of invisible in prose dialogue writing. Sometimes you really notice it but then again sometimes I get stoned and "were" seems like Old English so ymmv
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Brawnfire posted:Yeah I've always understood "said" to be sort of invisible in prose dialogue writing. Sometimes you really notice it but then again sometimes I get stoned and "were" seems like Old English so ymmv Yeah, this is what I've always felt and been taught: 'said' is so neutral it's effectively invisible in most contexts and just exists to help the dialog along. Generally speaking, if you're noticing a passage of writing uses 'said' a lot, the problem is actually somewhere else, because it means the writing is so unengaging that you've started to pay more attention to word usage than the actual intended meaning.
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Alhazred posted:Ice T went from recording a song named Cop Killer to playing a cop on movies and tv. COMBAT
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The Fifty Shades of Grey books have more use of the word "crap" and its derivatives than any other book published. I've not heard a person say "crap" like that since I was a kid, and the first or second time she used it in the book it stood out. She goes on to use it... hang on, I actually wrote this down while reading them ten years ago. Fifty Shades of Grey: Crap: 39 Double Crap: 7 Triple-Crap: 1 Holy Crap: 40 Crapola: 1 89 craps Fifty Shades Darker: Crap: 26 Double Crap: 1 Holy Crap: 2 29 craps Fifty Shades Freed: Crap: 24 Double Crap: 1 Holy Crap: 19 Holy loving Crap: 1 45 craps Total: 163 craps. 1 crap every 9.97 pages.
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I remember reading Stephen King's On Writing in high school and there was a section where he said Rowling was a terrible writer for using too many adjectives instead of "said".
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He right, just use said in most cases, most people can’t be McCarthy and ignore attribution completely.
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I think writing advice has gone back and forth over the years on whether it's better to just use "said" repeatedly as an invisible expression or to vary it up to avoid repeating yourself. Like Cleretic said, if you're noticing a problem with either approach it's probably not a matter of word usage but that the text itself is boring. In particular if you're using either "said" or alternatives to "said" enough to worry about it you're probably writing too much like a script and need to have your characters actually doing things more rather than just having pure dialogue.
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Better dead than said.
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“Orientalism is a strain that runs through the nineteenth-century British imagination,” said Said.
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Thankfully we have condoms & penicillin now
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Said also helps keep it clear who is talking in dialogues that involve multiple characters. It can be a nightmare trying to do prose with more than two characters in a scene and everyone is talking without it.
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Burkion posted:Said also helps keep it clear who is talking in dialogues that involve multiple characters. Austen does that several times in Pride and Prejudice and while you can work out who is saying everything it shouldn't be something you need to think about consciously.
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Tenebrais posted:I think writing advice has gone back and forth over the years on whether it's better to just use "said" repeatedly as an invisible expression or to vary it up to avoid repeating yourself. Like Cleretic said, if you're noticing a problem with either approach it's probably not a matter of word usage but that the text itself is boring. In particular if you're using either "said" or alternatives to "said" enough to worry about it you're probably writing too much like a script and need to have your characters actually doing things more rather than just having pure dialogue. Newspaper writing is 97% "said." About once a month, I throw in a "joked" on a quote where it's not obvious. Maybe once a year an "explained." Newspaper writing may be why I've grown to hate flowery writing. I'm an overexplainer, but those lengthy explanations are done in concise sentences.
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Doesn't help that I think it goes back and forth over the years and with different traditions of writing.credburn posted:The Fifty Shades of Grey books have more use of the word "crap" and its derivatives than any other book published. I've not heard a person say "crap" like that since I was a kid, and the first or second time she used it in the book it stood out. She goes on to use it... hang on, I actually wrote this down while reading them ten years ago. Can really tell that it's fanfic with the names changed.
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Those books sound pretty crappy.
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credburn posted:The Fifty Shades of Grey books have more use of the word "crap" and its derivatives than any other book published. I've not heard a person say "crap" like that since I was a kid, and the first or second time she used it in the book it stood out. She goes on to use it... hang on, I actually wrote this down while reading them ten years ago. this is the kind of hard-hitting stastistician-wet-dream data science we need after Dataclysm solved online dating Analytic Engine has a new favorite as of 13:05 on Aug 29, 2022 |
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"Crap" is probably the worst word Mormons are allowed to say
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I don't think E.L. James is Mormon, that would be Stephenie Meyer (the one who actually wrote Twilight/was later used as a basis for Fifty Shades) I feel like the large amount of craps are due to her just trying and failing to Americanize things?? Like if somebody born and raised in the US tried to write a novel based in the UK and assumed the best way to get that across was if every character interjected with a "bloody [x]!" every two minutes
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