Re: Get Your Fat Ass Over Here, Sponge Bob

Robert Lieblich wrote:
elanders wrote:
What do I have to do to get you to defend the edits you made, Bob?

Apologize to me and the rest of the group for your behavior to date
and promise to comport yourself henceforth with kindness and dignity
-- and not to lie After a week or so of probation. to see if you
meant it, I might bother mthe yself to respond.

Put some cheese on a crossword puzzle to draw your rat fink ass out of
your hole?

I'm not afraid of you, pal. But you're a bottomless pit. You don't
have to agree with me, and I don't have to persuade you, and that's a
good thing -- because it's clear that neither will ever happen. The
world will continue on its appointed course (subject to collisions
with large meteors) regardless of whether we continue our misguided
dialogue or not. So why waste the time?

You're still an unpublished wannabe with no evident talent for writing
beyond the most superficial ability to string together sentences that
tend to be syutactically correct in the narrowest of senses. If it
makes you happy to continue proving that to the world, you just go
right ahead. I'm having more fun frustrating your bizarre itch for
controversy than I would indulging it.

I don't know what time zone you're in, but I'm about to hit the sack. I promise not to dream of you.


Yeah, ok, sure, Bob.

Now let's take your edits two at a time and show everybody how stupid they are, ok?

Here's the first two:


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Your problem, Bob, is you don't know the difference between an error and a stylistic preference.

For example, I wrote:

"Accompanying the six coaches were a detachment of King's dragoons"

Your edit was:

"Were they in the coaches or alongside? If the latter -- and that's what the preceding paragraph suggests -- they were accompanying those in the coaches, not the coaches."

Well, that's ridiculous, Bob. It takes our colloquial use of language and tortures it into something it was never meant to be -- a pool of words to be inserted into crossword puzzles.

We don't write "accompanying the people in the motorcade" we write

"Accompanying the motorcade was a detachment of motorcycle police."
http://tinyurl.com/6tu2do

In other words, Bob, you think editing fiction is the same thing as doing a crossword puzzle when it most assuredly is not.

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Here's another example of your wrongheadedness:

I wrote --


"12 slim-waisted men bristling with sword, pistol, and
campaign gear ..."

Your edit:

"Bristle" implies some sort of aggressiveness. I'd say "wearing," which is neutral. Surely they weren't arriving to attack the palace.

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Wrong, Bob.

Their purpose has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that they were armed to the teeth. Again, your edit is just wrongheaded.

Also, for reasons unclear, you told me to get rid of "12" and write it out.

Again -- wrong, Bob.


And in every edit following these you do the same thing -- replace what I've written for no other reason than you were able to find an alternative you preferred.

Well, that's not editing; that's a guy trying to write my book for me.

Finally, here's something else that's not editing: cheap shots.

I wrote:


"Poor, Franz was looking ..."


Obviously, the comma after poor is a typo.

Not in your book, Crossword Puzzle Bob. In your book it's the "dumbest comma of the year!"
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