[TUC Spoilers] Sticky out bits : football, meters, twig, kelm

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« Reply #15 on: July 25, 2017, 04:10:19 pm »
I've just done a search as well and can't find anything to with football, tenis, rugby or cricket !

It's true I was hitting the qiri hard on my last read through, but I can't belive I got it that wrong.  It was sports related.  It was related to a "as big as" or "the size of a".

Memory is a strange.  Now I'm destined to spend the rest of my days scouring the accursed halls of Cil-Aujas in search of The 20th Century Sports Reference.

Fair enough damnation for opening a thread on such a flimsy premise ?

Nah man it's cool. I've had "false memories" of stuff as well, only to find out my memory has changed for some reason I can't work out.

I was really excited though to see that part as it would have been cool how i missed it each time i read :)

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« Reply #16 on: July 25, 2017, 04:35:25 pm »
If we were damned for misreading or misremembering things, I'd probably be a Prince of Hell already.
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« Reply #17 on: July 25, 2017, 04:47:27 pm »
I've just done a search as well and can't find anything to with football, tenis, rugby or cricket !

It's true I was hitting the qiri hard on my last read through, but I can't belive I got it that wrong.  It was sports related.  It was related to a "as big as" or "the size of a".

Memory is a strange.  Now I'm destined to spend the rest of my days scouring the accursed halls of Cil-Aujas in search of The 20th Century Sports Reference.

Fair enough damnation for opening a thread on such a flimsy premise ?

Are you sure you couldn't have read that reference in another book (maybe even another fantasy book) you were reading at around the same time? It's easy to be mistaken about what book/series it did come from, similar things have happened to me before (and to many others, I'd suppose). :)


Speaking of words/phrases that stick out, I'll admit by being thrown out of the text by the word "okay" a few times. Now, it's not like I know anything about the history of that word (and English isn't even my first language anyway) so I could be mistaken, but I always thought it was a fairly modern thing.
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« Reply #18 on: July 25, 2017, 04:54:04 pm »
Speaking of words/phrases that stick out, I'll admit by being thrown out of the text by the word "okay" a few times. Now, it's not like I know anything about the history of that word (and English isn't even my first language anyway) so I could be mistaken, but I always thought it was a fairly modern thing.

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mid 19th century: probably an abbreviation of orl korrect, humorous form of all correct, popularized as a slogan during President Van Buren's re-election campaign of 1840; his nickname Old Kinderhook (derived from his birthplace) provided the initials.

Pretty modern indeed.
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« Reply #19 on: July 25, 2017, 10:50:54 pm »
Mekeretrig talks in an anachronistic manner in TDTCB that bumped me out of my flow in my reading, but YMMV.
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« Reply #20 on: July 26, 2017, 02:01:19 pm »
Mekeretrig talks in an anachronistic manner in TDTCB that bumped me out of my flow in my reading, but YMMV.

Its crazy to think about how delicate and complex this subject is. Everyone with different triggers, and a nudge this way or that really breaks the flow state, which can in turn ruin a book for someone.

Years ago, the word 'presently' really used to piss me off in books. I have since overcome this, but it used to make me put a book down completely - and I could never articulate why.
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