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Re: Hispanic Spanish

antonio...@sapo.pt (António Marques) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:34:57 UT

John Atkinson wrote, on 25-11-2009 06:14:
Who does that?

Re: Tester Needed for Short Game

sj...@io.com (S. John Ross) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:08:50 UT

Agreed. Had he said "experienced testers wanted," I doubt anyone would
have blinked at that.

Re: Tester Needed for Short Game

ja...@jacek.jacek (Jacek Pudlo) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:25:22 UT

Corwi...@gmail.com
Jim Aiken is on a VERY long list of people who, for reasons not even they
could explain, stubbornly and prolifically produce sub-mediocre fiction for
a largely undiscerning and uncaring crowd. This community is indeed facing a
crisis, but it is a crisis of overproduction, not dearth of material.

Re: Hispanic Spanish

johna...@bigpond.com (John Atkinson) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:14:25 UT

Certainly not, at least if you consider Asturian, Leonese, etc to be
dialects of "Iberian Spanish".
AIUI, all overseas Spanish varieties (except possibly Judeo-Spanish?)
are derived from the Spanish of Castile, though with strong Andalusian
influence.

Re: Tester Needed for Short Game

conradc...@gmail.com (Conrad) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:39:06 UT

I agree that there should be more positivity; also, I have a great
deal of respect for Jim as a writer, although he often irritates me.
But my read on him is that he's *fine* with being irritating. And
also I do consider him a friend.
Personally, I think Jim's able to take care of himself, and pity

Re: Tester Needed for Short Game

snackyp...@hotmail.com (Snacky Pete) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:48:15 UT

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:21:35 -0800 (PST), "Corwi...@gmail.com"
Wholehearted agreement here.
Pete

Re: Tester Needed for Short Game

corwi...@gmail.com (Corwin71@gmail.com) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:21:35 UT

Look out, sympathy police, cause here it comes.
Jim Aiken is on a VERY short list of people who, for reasons only they
know, consistently produce free interactive fiction games for a
largely unappreciative community. I'm not suggesting that people
should turn off their critical faculties and automatically laud

Re: Hispanic Spanish

hayesm...@hotmail.com (Steve Hayes) — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:05:27 UT

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:10:32 +0100, Bertel Lund Hansen
That's what I suggested, but someone pointed out that Argentinians
(Argentines?) use that as the designation of their own dialect.
And one group, I'm not sure which, pronounces it "castezhano".

Re: Tester Needed for Short Game

sj...@io.com (S. John Ross) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 20:26:09 UT

Hm. I took the "this group" line as a characterization of Jim's own
pearls-before-swine stuff upthread, and not a characterization of your
post at all. But I could be misreading.
Indeed, but that's a bit tangential, isn't it? I don't think anyone
here is commenting on Jim's prerogative to have standards (Jim seems

Re: Tester Needed for Short Game

peter_pe...@hotmail.com (Peter Pears) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 19:24:25 UT

I presume that was directed at my sympahty. Your "THIS GROUP" sentence
is your own words, not mine, and I'd just like to make that clear. I
like this group. I particularly like how people nitpick at things, and
often just for fun, or to improve, or for any reason that is not
malicious. Jim has not been the target of malicious nitpicking. I just

Re: Tester Needed for Short Game

celestialilikespamcognit...@gmail.areyouahuman (Benjamin Caplan) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 19:22:21 UT

Just sayin'.

Re: Tester Needed for Short Game

sj...@io.com (S. John Ross) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 18:16:52 UT

Well, I can only speak for my part, but your comments relating the
discussion to morality have struck me as tangential and inexplicable
and slightly creepy :)

Re: Tester Needed for Short Game

vic...@lilith.gotdns.org (Victor Gijsbers) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 18:07:13 UT

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You'll never guess, John, but... my remark was a metaphor too! (A
metaphor for "harm his own interests", to be precise.)
I'm happy if I misinterpreted that. :) To me it seemed as if there was a
lot of indignation here, and people don't feel indignation when someone

Re: Tester Needed for Short Game

sj...@io.com (S. John Ross) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 17:59:18 UT

Exactly. Alpha to Omega.

Re: Tester Needed for Short Game

sj...@io.com (S. John Ross) — Tue, 11 Nov 2009 17:58:26 UT

No one has suggested that Jim is "morallly bad and insulting" for
"believing that bad testers will delay his work."
The word is "metaphor." Find a dictionary and start from there.
Agreed, 100%.
That's just a very bizarre thing to say :/