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TV, politics, translations and writing
Oct. 16th, 2012 04:44 pmI'm on to the penultimate episode of Revenge, and they're doing interesting things. ( Spoilers )
Also ( spoilers for Revenge and the Count of Monte Cristo )
At some point I really need to write a proper post about Revenge which I enjoy immensely.
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Politics:
Could the US-ians, or anyone else who might happen to know, answer me a couple of questions? They're both very simple.
1 - The early voting - is it like postal voting or something else? How is it regulated? Do you think it increases overall turnout?
2 - Is there a reason why the Dems are targeting young voters? Or to rephrase it, in my experience, and the experience of my mother, when we were young voters, people our age were no more likely to vote for the less right wing candidate that people older than us. Is there any reason to expect this to be different in the US?
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Translations:
While I was over at a friend's, she let me read her copy of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo", which I liked. However, I now want to track it down in either the original Swedish, or since I can't read Swedish, German, because there's one particular point where the translator translates something into a word, which while it is fine and upstanding, is highly unlikely to have been the original, and it's a dashed odd choice of word given what I think he could have used, so I want to know what the original said.
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Writing:
So I'm writing something set in a pseudo-medieval society, sort of middle medieval (moving away from feudalism, but before muskets and canon), and I needed to know how fast horses travel. So I googled, and the average answer is ~ 30 miles per day. So in a day and a half that'd be 45 miles, maybe 60 if I use exceptional horses. The problem is that I could do with it being ~70 miles. So how far is it reasonable to bend reality on a small point like that?
Also ( spoilers for Revenge and the Count of Monte Cristo )
At some point I really need to write a proper post about Revenge which I enjoy immensely.
~~~~
Politics:
Could the US-ians, or anyone else who might happen to know, answer me a couple of questions? They're both very simple.
1 - The early voting - is it like postal voting or something else? How is it regulated? Do you think it increases overall turnout?
2 - Is there a reason why the Dems are targeting young voters? Or to rephrase it, in my experience, and the experience of my mother, when we were young voters, people our age were no more likely to vote for the less right wing candidate that people older than us. Is there any reason to expect this to be different in the US?
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Translations:
While I was over at a friend's, she let me read her copy of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo", which I liked. However, I now want to track it down in either the original Swedish, or since I can't read Swedish, German, because there's one particular point where the translator translates something into a word, which while it is fine and upstanding, is highly unlikely to have been the original, and it's a dashed odd choice of word given what I think he could have used, so I want to know what the original said.
~~~~
Writing:
So I'm writing something set in a pseudo-medieval society, sort of middle medieval (moving away from feudalism, but before muskets and canon), and I needed to know how fast horses travel. So I googled, and the average answer is ~ 30 miles per day. So in a day and a half that'd be 45 miles, maybe 60 if I use exceptional horses. The problem is that I could do with it being ~70 miles. So how far is it reasonable to bend reality on a small point like that?
