I don't know which instruments are being played here, but while you can play the same notes on say a clarinet, and a bassoon, the bassoon plays them in a lower register.

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(7 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

Thanks, Alfred. Desert of (or on) the Moon seems more likely and suitable.

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(7 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

Not Classical, but definitely "classic". One of the very best Dixieland style jazzbands I've come across. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un7TdFdPJdM

By the way, the piece halfway through that is not given a title in English, is called "Moon sand", or so a combination of Abbyy FineReader and Google Translate suggests. "Moon dust" might be more accurate.

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(1 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Something to do with Greece, or maybe grease.

how about a colly bird?

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(769 replies, posted in MoviePlus)

You have missed the point, but perhaps you could make a movie about it. Preferably non-political, at least in this thread.

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(4 replies, posted in Mathematics & Science)

If you are ever in London, a visit to the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich is well worthwhile.

What am I missing please?

The parts of the rubber band no longer stretch after they contact with the wheel. Imagine the wheel is coated with superglue.

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(6 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

it should be (as if Horl - ee)

Most sources claim Halley rhymes with alley. I have heard it pronounced as rhyming with daily, but the double "l" suggests the former is correct, and conforms to normal English pronunciation rules. Now were he Welsh…

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(5 replies, posted in PagePlus)

Or as html?

I have it saved as: Charts (PagePlus) _ Serif Legacy Product Support.html (48 KB)

Together with a Folder: Charts (PagePlus) _ Serif Legacy Product Support_files (3.35 MB)

Is it possible to attach a Folder here?

How could this be converted to PDF?

EDIT:

I see - just right-click in the browser and Print, selecting Save as PDF. Easy!

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(6 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

More relating loosely with my original post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUrDUxh5xS0

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(6 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

Some would claim that these days that sentence is fine

I believe Fowler considers it acceptable now that "his" is no longer considered by some to include both males and females. But it would be better rewritten using "Authors" or "Writers" instead of "Everyone", or perhaps use the genderless "One", such as "One  should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in one's writing."

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(6 replies, posted in Art & Literature)

I often get e-mails from Quora about English. Mostly they are rubbish so get deleted pronto, But occasinally there is something of interest, like this about the letter Q. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-purpo … e-letter-Q

So if there are twelve candidates, the minimum would be one twelfth of the total votes plus one. If all but one of the rest got exactly one twelfth, the one with one twelfth minus one would drop out and the remaining eleven would be in a run-off. And so on until there was a run-off with only two qualifiers.

It is a much fairer system than exists in the UK, but even that, with an independent Boundary Commission, is much fairer than the shenanigans that go on over here in the USA.

Blatant gerrymandering is not permitted in the UK, as Westminster discovered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homes_for_votes_scandal

Only two go into the run-off. If anyone gets 50.01% of the votes in round 1, there is no run-off. If two candidates each get 49.99% of the first round votes, and the others share .02% then the two 49.99ers have a run-off.

If all six candidates share the first round virtually equally, then one sixth plus one votes will get them into the run-off. So that is the theoretical minimum. If three each get one sixth plus one votes, and the other three get one sixth minus one votes, then there will be a run-off between three, and presumably the whole thing starts over, in that if none of the three gets at least 50% in the run-off, there will be a further run-off.

Don't worry, that won't happen!

Has anyone reading this thread read the part about the airship in my first novel please?

I have read the part linked to. It reads like a film-script, not a novel.

I can try to do both, as they are not mutually exclusive.

But unfortunately they are. Just concentrate on writing a good, readable novel. If anyone wants to make a film from it, you (or the film maker) can write a film script based on the novel. A film script can never read like a novel.

Do you know of any novel written as a ready-made film script?

Isn't it a bit late to make a sequel to a film over 70 years old?

Has Geoff or anyone else followed the links in my previous post and had a read please?

I haven't, sorry. As explained earlier, I find your style too cumbersome to be read enjoyably.

Geoff

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(18 replies, posted in General Discussion)

So a Tom Swifty has to be a quote. I presume a statement like, "She blushed, readily." is just a pun.

I was so surprised to be asked to define "assonance", I fell over backwards onto an anthill.

"She stood and looked", or "she is standing and is looking". Not "she stood and is looking". Maybe she looked as if she was standing.

I'm just sat sitting here, not stood standing. I can't stand sitting too long.

Better now?

Better grammatically perhaps, but that somewhat changes the meaning. William is imagining Angela in the present, not the past.

I can imagine Angela stood there

There you go again!

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(5 replies, posted in PagePlus)

The one and only Dale Cook has a tutorial here https://community.serif.com/tutorials/d … s-pageplus

In Geoff's version the meaning has changed.

Edward works at the research centre where Edith is the Secretary-General. So Edith often sees Edward. Edith usually only sees Angela at social events, when Angela is Edward's guest.

I'm sorry. Not having read the earlier parts of the story I am unaware of the exact relationship between the characters, or how informally they ma speak.

I try to write so as that if a movie is made of the novel then the words to speak are ready to use.

In my view that is a serious problem. You are writing a novel, not a play. You need more background information, setting the scene, describing the surroundings etc. There is a lot going on that the characters would not mention, but which would inform and interest the reader.

I like the way that Geoff has Angela "joining the small throng".

You said she was "alone". She was not, there were lots of people around her. However she was "on her own" in  that she had no immediate companions with her.