While writing a fantasy short story a while back, I had to turn off the dang spell check. It kept freaking out over names like Skaledron or Ma’fasa’lita’them’a’loc.
Steve MC August 8, 2013 @ 6:13 pm
My old nemesis appears again!
I remember it was quite a puzzle to shut that dwarven harlot up.
Allison August 8, 2013 @ 6:27 pm
-giggles-
Not sure if you heard the Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me sketch a few years back when the comedians rabbit trailed off on a rant about Clippy. It was hilarious. Someone put it up on youtube: Clippy Must Die
Worth a watch, if you find yourself in need of a laugh.
I was thinking of “Eye of Argon” when I wrote it 🙂
helen August 8, 2013 @ 8:28 pm
Like!
… I’ll be at the Eye of Argon reading at GenCon! And I’ll think of you. 🙂
Patti L. August 9, 2013 @ 3:58 am
Just remember, any apostrophe in a name that isn’t *genuinely* needed (as “F’nor” is a contraction of his pre-dragon-impression name) is pronounced “boing”, so “Hal’ch’loo” is pronounced “Hal boing ch boing loo”.
You know, I forgot Clippy even existed. Could. Not. Stand. It. Thank God it’s been discontinued. I remember on Office 2000 or whichever version it haunted, the first thing I did was figure out how to axe the sucker. Annoying and often wrong. I guess it was the harbinger of the modern Internet troll.
Ms. Sunlight August 9, 2013 @ 10:26 pm
I never understood exactly why “F’nor” needed to have a contractive apostrophe. It’s always seemed arbitrary and ridiculous to me. Besides, what do you do if you end up with a dragon rider called Jim or Bob?
Pat Munson-Siter August 10, 2013 @ 7:12 pm
I got into settings and turned Mr Clippy into the meowing cat…. Then later just turned it off.
Pat H. August 10, 2013 @ 9:31 pm
Oh boy… Clippy! I used to run afoul of that little **#%! at work! It was worst when I was writing documentation for computer programs.
I once won a Scrabble game by convincing my opponent — an SF writer — that THEWED was a legitimate word based on its use in barbarian fantasy novels. (It’s not, for Scrabble, though THEW and THEWS are.) I think I used “mighty-thewed barbarian” as an example.
baronger August 19, 2013 @ 2:51 am
Heh … you nailed it. When you hit emerald eyes, I was confused. Did he mean red eyes or green eyes? I first encountered that work as, the MST3K parody version; so hilarious, and yet I think I could have written something similar at a young age.
A.J.
August 8, 2013 @ 6:10 pm
While writing a fantasy short story a while back, I had to turn off the dang spell check. It kept freaking out over names like Skaledron or Ma’fasa’lita’them’a’loc.
Steve MC
August 8, 2013 @ 6:13 pm
My old nemesis appears again!
I remember it was quite a puzzle to shut that dwarven harlot up.
Allison
August 8, 2013 @ 6:27 pm
-giggles-
Not sure if you heard the Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me sketch a few years back when the comedians rabbit trailed off on a rant about Clippy. It was hilarious. Someone put it up on youtube: Clippy Must Die
Worth a watch, if you find yourself in need of a laugh.
Sally
August 8, 2013 @ 6:31 pm
Wow, this is even better than “The Eye of Argon”.
For certain values of “better”.
Jim C. Hines
August 8, 2013 @ 6:56 pm
I love reaching the point in a novel where Microsoft says there are too many errors in the document for it to continue tracking them 🙂
Jim C. Hines
August 8, 2013 @ 6:56 pm
I was thinking of “Eye of Argon” when I wrote it 🙂
helen
August 8, 2013 @ 8:28 pm
Like!
… I’ll be at the Eye of Argon reading at GenCon! And I’ll think of you. 🙂
Patti L.
August 9, 2013 @ 3:58 am
Just remember, any apostrophe in a name that isn’t *genuinely* needed (as “F’nor” is a contraction of his pre-dragon-impression name) is pronounced “boing”, so “Hal’ch’loo” is pronounced “Hal boing ch boing loo”.
Amanda
August 9, 2013 @ 1:09 pm
You know, I forgot Clippy even existed. Could. Not. Stand. It. Thank God it’s been discontinued. I remember on Office 2000 or whichever version it haunted, the first thing I did was figure out how to axe the sucker. Annoying and often wrong. I guess it was the harbinger of the modern Internet troll.
Ms. Sunlight
August 9, 2013 @ 10:26 pm
I never understood exactly why “F’nor” needed to have a contractive apostrophe. It’s always seemed arbitrary and ridiculous to me. Besides, what do you do if you end up with a dragon rider called Jim or Bob?
Pat Munson-Siter
August 10, 2013 @ 7:12 pm
I got into settings and turned Mr Clippy into the meowing cat…. Then later just turned it off.
Pat H.
August 10, 2013 @ 9:31 pm
Oh boy… Clippy! I used to run afoul of that little **#%! at work! It was worst when I was writing documentation for computer programs.
Susan
August 16, 2013 @ 11:48 am
I once won a Scrabble game by convincing my opponent — an SF writer — that THEWED was a legitimate word based on its use in barbarian fantasy novels. (It’s not, for Scrabble, though THEW and THEWS are.) I think I used “mighty-thewed barbarian” as an example.
baronger
August 19, 2013 @ 2:51 am
Heh … you nailed it. When you hit emerald eyes, I was confused. Did he mean red eyes or green eyes? I first encountered that work as, the MST3K parody version; so hilarious, and yet I think I could have written something similar at a young age.