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Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth

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In article <0001HW.2083FE2403A3940870000942D2CF@news.supernews.com>,
Wolffan  <akwolffan@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 15 Apr 2018, Carl Fink wrote
>(in article <slrnpd7ef5.rml.carlf@panix2.panix.com>):
>
>> On 2018-04-15, Dorothy J Heydt<djheydt@kithrup.com>  wrote:
>>
>> > Have you read Turtledove's _The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump_?
>> > It's alternate-world-just-like-ours-except-with-magic done with
>> > skill and a laudable attention to detail. There's a whole lot of
>> > Turtledove I can't/won't read, but this is an exception.
>>
>> I read it and found it astonishingly bad. I inadvertently posted that in a
>> forum (GEnie's SFRT) that Mr. Turtledove read, offending him. Whoops.
>
>I quite liked it. Especially things like David Fisher’s go-to guy for 
>warrants, ‘Maximum’ Ruhollah.

Especially all the place names translated out of Spanish.  Such as
"the The Second freeway."

(Explanation: in Los Angeles and perhaps elsewhere in Southern
California (I don't live there so I'm not sure), drivers refer to
freeways using the definite article.  

(E.g., Interstate Highway 5, which runs up and down the West Coast
from the US/Canadian border to the US/Mexican border, is called "I-5"
in the northern part of California.  In the south, it's called "the
Five."  So Turtledove's protagonist is driving down a freeway which
he calles "the The Second," and wonders why the extra "the".  In OTL
it's "the El Segundo.")

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth David Johnston <davidjohnston29@yahoo.com> - 2018-04-15 09:19 -0600
  Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-15 16:35 +0000
    Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-04-15 20:45 +0000
      Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2018-04-15 15:36 -0600
      Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth Wolffan <akwolffan@gmail.com> - 2018-04-15 17:39 -0400
        Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-04-15 21:43 +0000
        Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-15 22:33 +0000
        Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> - 2018-04-15 21:43 -0700
    Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth Bill Gill <billnews2@cox.net> - 2018-04-16 08:07 -0500
      Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-16 13:26 +0000
      Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2018-04-16 14:47 +0000
        Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-16 21:59 +0000
          Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-04-16 22:29 +0000
            Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-04-16 23:42 +0000
            Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2018-04-17 14:07 +0000
              Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-04-17 16:07 +0000
  Re: Thirteen O'Clock by Cyril Kornbluth D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-04-16 15:13 +0000

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