Spanish is the only language I can even vaguely speak. (Other than English, obviously.) I’m going to be very curious to read the translation. (Or try to anyways.) Liar has now sold in as many countries as the Magic or Madness trilogy. HTDYF remains my least popular book o.s. ...
we don't need to create anything new. It's full of familiar faces so we don't feel uncomfortable having to introduce ourselves to new people all the time. And we kind of vaguely remember that a few people there have given us referrals...
Another word for a beggar isa "panhandler," although both terms are vaguely offensive. No one wants to be a beggar. Is devote a devout? As adjectives the difference between devote and devout is that devote is (obsolete) devoted; addicted; devout while devout isdevoted to religion or to re...
If you look at images of X and Y chromosomes, you can see how someone might come to this conclusion. A Y chromosome is a fraction of the size of an X -- it's the smallest of all the chromosomes in the human body. Its shape vaguely suggests that it's an X that has been stepped...
Chinese characters that share the same components but are still different–This is particularly tricky case of mixing characters up. Normally, I don’t encode the order of the components when creating mnemonics because only one way of writing the character looks even vaguely right. But this doesn...
Oh, you thought it was easy to read closely enough to catch that the narrative has used the same image on page 12 and page 315? Or that the writer fell so in love with the word verdant that it appears every time that anything vaguely green flashes by the reader’s consciousness...
“Oh, presentation doesn’t matter,” Millicent imagines the brash new writer saying as he doesn’t bother to spell-check. “That’s my future editor’s job to fix. All that matters is the writing, right?” Actually, no. Any good agent receives far, far too many beautifully-written man...
{4} It was the custom of Longinus, of the author of The Bathos, and other old critics, to take their examples of how NOT to do it from the works of famous writers, such as Sir Richard Blackmore and Herodotus. It seems altogether safer and more courteous for an author to supply his...
"But did you REALLY cheat?" she said. "In real life? Like ACTUAL sleight-of-hand and whatnot? Not just…" She waved a hand vaguely in the air. "What else did you expect?" I smirked cockily. She groaned. I suppose I should explain. ...
In the absence of a document like the SOP, it becomes tedious to communicate the expectations related to the job process. And at times when it is defined vaguely, it puts both the employee and the supervisor in a dicey situation. Moreover, with SOPs when expectations are clearly defined i...