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I'm debating whether I want to leave myself potentially hanging at the end of chapter 5, or if I want to just wait for the book to come out in November and buy it, (I guess I'd read reviews first before buying. But then again I could review on my own by reading the first 5 chapters, and it would give me something to do at work) hmmmm.
That has got to be the longest paranthetical comment I have ever made.
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Well, y'know, it's presented as being army slang. And for all we know, OSC is a very popular author in the military. So maybe they'd pick up on it and it really is army slang?
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quote:Originally posted by King of Men: Well, y'know, it's presented as being army slang. And for all we know, OSC is a very popular author in the military. So maybe they'd pick up on it and it really is army slang?
hmmm perhaps,
I must confess laughing when one of the studends said, "my head esplode." Is that from Homestar Runner or is there actually a game where upon losing it says, "your head asplode?"
how do you write like that and not have the editor mistake it for a typo?
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He said "vast right-wing conspiracy", too. Now, if only he said "secret liberal cabal", I'd be wetting my pants. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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I'm not sure I'll be able to like it. I'm too familiar with the reality of the situation and I get hung up on the silly details.
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quote:Originally posted by sarcasticmuppet: "Jeesh" pronounced "JAYsh" is Arabic for army, IIRC.
Perhaps his use of the word relates to that meaning, but I think he adapted it in Enderverse to a closer relationship with "gang," but in a military sense. Words change with their applied meaning anyway, so we'll see if it becomes common coin.
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He did talk about the asteroid defense projects.
I thought Malek was supposed to be in Iran. There'd be no reason for Special Ops being in Afghanistan to be a secret and Farsi wouldn't be spoken by many in Pakistan.
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I've got no problem with Farsi being spoken in Afghanistan. Farsi as a common language makes it pretty much Afghanistan or Iran (unless I'm very mistaken).
But it's not the operations that were secret (well, they were, but that wasn't the emphasis) but the country itself. Remember the bit about "the country that must not be named"?
Everyone knows there are Spec Ops people in Afghanistan. The only reason to emphasize the country being secret is if it's a place that people wouldn't be sure that they would be in and that many people would get pissed about if they knew.
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quote:Originally posted by MrSquicky: I've got no problem with Farsi being spoken in Afghanistan. Farsi as a common language makes it pretty much Afghanistan or Iran (unless I'm very mistaken).
But it's not the operations that were secret (well, they were, but that wasn't the emphasis) but the country itself. Remember the bit about "the country that must not be named"?
Everyone knows there are Spec Ops people in Afghanistan. The only reason to emphasize the country being secret is if it's a place that people wouldn't be sure that they would be in and that many people would get pissed about if they knew.
Linguistically you are correct. With regards to the "country that must not be named" I thought OSC was just being cute. Al-Qaeda being brought up almost certainly puts the SpecOps on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and I'm pretty sure Americans crossing back and forth looking for UBL and other cute stuff is pretty well publicized.
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I'll bet you five virtual bucks or alternatively a poem written in the winners honor. Doesn't seem like this is a book either of us is going to read though, so we'll have to rely on someone else to tell us.
edit: I also don't think OBL is going to show up in the book unless it's in the context of a university professor or John Kerry sheltering him from capture.
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A poem it is. I feel obligated to read the book, and dread the flinching that comes with reading things that aren't quite right. The NSA only means one thing to me, and it's sure as heck not National Security Advisor. I had to re-read those three letters re-finding the context every time I read them.
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airmanfour, I have the same problem with NSA, although probably a totally different meaning in mind. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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I kept thinking No Such Agency. Mostly because they work so closely with Christians In Action and Faith Based Initiatives...
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