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All of your formal citations are to phantoms. You have to cite one actually existing article and two novel phantoms (which must be the ''only'' novel phantoms in your text). I find the hardest part of writing Ghyll entries to be finding the most relevant actually existing article (I fudged it in the [[Conflict That Is Not Happening]] by implying that the most important part of the article was the part removed by the Copy Editor). Picking just two novel terms to turn into phantoms is also difficult. --[[User:Jcowan|Jcowan]] 09:08, 27 Sep 2004 (EDT) | All of your formal citations are to phantoms. You have to cite one actually existing article and two novel phantoms (which must be the ''only'' novel phantoms in your text). I find the hardest part of writing Ghyll entries to be finding the most relevant actually existing article (I fudged it in the [[Conflict That Is Not Happening]] by implying that the most important part of the article was the part removed by the Copy Editor). Picking just two novel terms to turn into phantoms is also difficult. --[[User:Jcowan|Jcowan]] 09:08, 27 Sep 2004 (EDT) | ||
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| + | "Eke" means "augment", as in "ekename" (which later became "nickname"), a name that augments your original name. So the phrase "eke out a meager [or meagre, if you're a Brit] living by X" means to ''augment'' the meager living you already have from some other source Y (farming, fishing, or what not) by doing X as well. | ||
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| + | This may or may not be what you meant. Pkease fix. --[[User:Jcowan|Jcowan]] 09:21, 27 Sep 2004 (EDT) | ||
Revision as of 09:21, 27 September 2004
Wow. Given the recent state of the art, this entry is like a worst case scenario. I introduce all of this throw-away history for the sake of a cheap joke. But it's a joke I kinda like; If anybody is annoyed by The Habit of Coming Up With Long Names For Imperial Cultures That Could Just As Easily Be Anonymous, lemme know and I'll cut them from the entry. I just stumbled on the Cranee Historical Society thread after completing the entry...
--Joe Bowers 00:31, 27 Sep 2004 (EDT)
Citation problem
All of your formal citations are to phantoms. You have to cite one actually existing article and two novel phantoms (which must be the only novel phantoms in your text). I find the hardest part of writing Ghyll entries to be finding the most relevant actually existing article (I fudged it in the Conflict That Is Not Happening by implying that the most important part of the article was the part removed by the Copy Editor). Picking just two novel terms to turn into phantoms is also difficult. --Jcowan 09:08, 27 Sep 2004 (EDT)
Copy editor's note
"Eke" means "augment", as in "ekename" (which later became "nickname"), a name that augments your original name. So the phrase "eke out a meager [or meagre, if you're a Brit] living by X" means to augment the meager living you already have from some other source Y (farming, fishing, or what not) by doing X as well.
This may or may not be what you meant. Pkease fix. --Jcowan 09:21, 27 Sep 2004 (EDT)
