Subject: Re: English not first language? |
From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> |
Date: 2/17/11, 14:35 |
To: Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.com> |
Wait, you're that fucking science fiction writer. I have one of your books, or rather one to which you provided the forward. Obviously I'm more into Dune, though, zomglol.On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm an Anglophile. Plus, yes, it was edited a slight bit, particularly the beginning, by an Arab plus god knows who else. I don't write propaganda like I write e-mails. Incidentally, here is a Star Wars parody. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRd_vZT6zPY
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.com> wrote:*So then, it's your editor who gave you those British spellings?
Was that whole text heavily edited? It has no American colloquiality
in it, unlike this email of yours.
bruces
On 17/feb/11, at 12:07, Barrett Brown wrote:
Just saw your post on my al-Jaz op-ed. I'm actually 29 and from Texas. It's an open secret that I wrote this, see Guardian op-eds. Seriously, though, do you just think the linguistic structure is weird or what?
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