Orome he/him Posted November 17, 2011 Posted November 17, 2011 Hello everyone! James from London, England here! I have been dealing with an acute Sanderson addiction since the American release of The Final Empire and have never looked back!I have been browsing these forums for a while, as they are my favorite source of cosmere study. thought it about time i came out of the shadows! Nice to meet you all!
darniil he/him Posted November 17, 2011 Posted November 17, 2011 Welcome aboard, James from London! We have a few other Brits here, too, and I imagine that you ought to be able to identify them without too much difficulty.
Orome he/him Posted November 17, 2011 Author Posted November 17, 2011 Welcome aboard, James from London! We have a few other Brits here, too, and I imagine that you ought to be able to identify them without too much difficulty. Hi darnil, thanks for the welcome! yes, we do tend to have a certain... aroma about us xD a quick question: im very new to forums, and would like to know how to do certain things like spoiler hiding and stuff, is there anywhere i can get this info?
darniil he/him Posted November 17, 2011 Posted November 17, 2011 I'm not sure, actually. When you type a reply, there's a lot of common formatting that's available right above the text-entry field, and if you're using the full editor, there's also some options after the field. Most things seem to work on standard BBCode-inspired, er, code. As for the spoiler tags, they too seem to be based on BBCode. It's just a matter of surrounding the spoilers in a spoiler tag, much like one would surround a quote in a quote tag.
Catalyst21 he/him Posted November 18, 2011 Posted November 18, 2011 (edited) Hi darnil, thanks for the welcome! yes, we do tend to have a certain... aroma about us xD a quick question: im very new to forums, and would like to know how to do certain things like spoiler hiding and stuff, is there anywhere i can get this info? yes, the little question mark box above the text editor when you click reply, it takes you here Edited November 18, 2011 by Catalyst21 1
Eri she/her Posted November 18, 2011 Posted November 18, 2011 Welcome, nice to meet you too. I hope you'll enjoy the discussions. (Also, in case I use too much of British spelling somewhere - I'm not Brittish, though from Europe too. English is a foreign language for me and I've learned mostly from British books. After reading a lot of Agatha Christie in original and all Sanderson's published works except Elantris and some short stories in US English, my English is probably a weird mix of both.)
Joe ST he/him Posted November 18, 2011 Posted November 18, 2011 Welcome, nice to meet you too. I hope you'll enjoy the discussions. (Also, in case I use too much of British spelling somewhere - I'm not Brittish, though from Europe too. English is a foreign language for me and I've learned mostly from British books. After reading a lot of Agatha Christie in original and all Sanderson's published works except Elantris and some short stories in US English, my English is probably a weird mix of both.) I spell color, and used aluminium all over the wiki >.> lol
Eri she/her Posted November 18, 2011 Posted November 18, 2011 What's wrong with aluminium? (I spell color too, sometimes. p{colour: #000;} does not work. )
Joe ST he/him Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 What's wrong with aluminium? (I spell color too, sometimes. p{colour: #000;} does not work. ) well the allomantic metal is aluminum... I also spelt one of the others wrong too somehow 0.o
Eri she/her Posted November 19, 2011 Posted November 19, 2011 Wow, thank you. I couldn't believe that I didn't notice, so I reread the AA. And I saw something even stranger to miss "duralumin" (I was sure it's "aluminium" and "duraluminium", as in Polish, because they're latin words so should be universal...) I was like "duralumin?! What, how? Ruin must have erased the "um" when I wasn't looking..." Seems imposibble to mis, but I've missed it, and I was reading quite carefuly, because I was afraid to miss the foreshadowing and Cosmere' stuff. And I've read the Mistborn trilogy in US English too. Two or three books (don't remebmer where it first appears) and I was still sure it's "duraluminium". Cognitive biases can be incredible sometimes. Sorry for hijacking the thread, but it was quite a shock for me. 2
Orome he/him Posted November 21, 2011 Author Posted November 21, 2011 ha, I never noticed the aluminum spelling untill this hijacking, so no worries, it been very informative! is that just a typo or in american, do people write aluminum?
Orome he/him Posted November 21, 2011 Author Posted November 21, 2011 yes, the little question mark box above the text editor when you click reply, it takes you here thanks for that cata, very helpfull! if i had an atium bead, youd get half
darniil he/him Posted November 21, 2011 Posted November 21, 2011 ha, I never noticed the aluminum spelling untill this hijacking, so no worries, it been very informative! is that just a typo or in american, do people write aluminum? It's aluminum in American English. And "zee", not "zed" for the last letter of the alphabet. (And ton(ne)s of other stuff. )
Arcanist Lupus he/him Posted December 11, 2011 Posted December 11, 2011 We've been forgetting to give everyone cookies, so I've decided to supply them!
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