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Sissy I'm not endorsing, just guessing.

When I was a pre-schooler, I thought it was bad to split an infinitive.

Those are just ordinary tits. The Greater Wheeled Tit would be a different matter.

Alabastrine light. Self-explanatory in its poetic sense.

Koanic is in my book

I'm still undecided whether to describe my novel set 1981-1984 as "period" or "historical." I say it's set at the "end of the predigital epoch and beginning of the neopuritan era."

Yet you're still described as "New Member."

Today is the kind of day that I don't know which image bothers me more, a deep-fryer suicide or an ass tortilla — never mind huge or regular.

It begins with breadsticks. They're so dry and passé that my Samsung Swype input doesn't even know the word.

I use archetypes (as described by Linda Goodman) to help in inventing characters' personalities, but I never mention astrology in my stories. Nor do I necessarily give the characters a birthday to fit. I don't mean to imply causality.

How do you feel about Häagen-Dazs? Or Håägén-dass? Or Håägën-#daa550? Isn't it the same kind of thing? Diacritics are only decoration in the US, as you of all people here know well. Elsewhere they distinguish words and letters.

I thought there was some kind of massage that tames such injuries

Straw-manning is tediously common in polemical or religious fiction.

In general, hand infections transmitted from teeth to knuckles during fistfights are common enough that there's a name for them I don't recall. Transmitting AIDS through a single encounter of any kind other than medical blood transfusion is uncommon but does happen, so your scenario as...

Isn't "." the ISO delimiter to denote d m y dates? As in: 1.4.1978 is 4/1/1978 is 1978-04-01 They all get thrown around pretty randomly in the US, as if purely decorative.