Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 20:21:46 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> To: Licia <licia@o-o.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it ok to use the FreeBSD name in a cyberpunkish fictional story? Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990512202146.00958db0@mail.bfm.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905121841010.28611-100000@o-o.org> References: <3.0.6.32.19990512180927.00958600@mail.bfm.org>
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At 18:42 12-05-1999 -0500, Licia wrote: > >(smiles) I've got to get around to writing that glossary :) c&e is slang the >characters use to mean 'compress and encrypt', I'll try to start a glossary >when I get episode 2 online, and update it with each new episode :) I have a better suggestion: Incorporate it in the story. When a slang term is used for the first time, find some excuse to explain to the reader what it means but not in an obvious way. Otherwise you are forcing the reader to interrupt the reading experience just to look something up in a glossary. Adam --- Want to design your own web counter? Get GCL 2.10 from http://www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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