Changes in the paradigm...

[Em]

I heard that A: book 5 is supposed to be shorter than 4 (by a hundred pages or so), and B: the book is supposed to come out around early January or February. Maybe I was worng, maybe I'm right...I thought I heard this from a personal interview with JKR, though.
About the whole speech thing, I was a little sad about that too...I've always really liked the idea of the Speech, and always wanted to be able to speak it myself (okay, okay, that's really sad...don't laugh!! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif[/img] ). I think its because in the beginning of the series, Diane was concentrating more on the magic in the stories, not so much the stories themselves. But in the last few books, the plots have become more detailed, and the magic put more to the background. Don't get me wrong, the magic is still an important part of her books, but the plot have overrun the magic and become the main themes of her books.

Ugh...sorry Mad King Soup....The _Redemption_ explanation another time. Soon, I promise...I'm just getting kicked off of my computer at the moment....

~Em~

"But victory's certain. Never think otherwise. There is loss, and there is pain, and in your home frame of reference, they're real enough, not to be devalued. But today the energy's running out of things just a little more slowly...for those who trust their hearts a measure." Diane Duane, A_Wizard's_Dilemma.

[Caledonian]

As wizards develop in the Speech, they'd stop perceiving it as different, just like people who become fluent in any other language.

After a while, a wizard would only notice the meaning of the Speech and not the actual mechanics of the language (unless of course they paid special attention).

Do *you* think about the structure of the alphabet and the conventions of punctuation when reading something?

Logic is a poor servant, but an excellent master.
-- The Book of Forgotten Things
Forget science fiction: other people are the ultimate aliens.
-- The Vorlon Ambassador's Aide

[EWizard11]

But I know what Em means...I loved the descriptions of the spells being worked. I miss the magic! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img] [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img]

*Ella*
"An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

[Caledonian]

You can always pester Diane to add more descriptions of the structure of magic.

Logic is a poor servant, but an excellent master.
-- The Book of Forgotten Things
Forget science fiction: other people are the ultimate aliens.
-- The Vorlon Ambassador's Aide

[Caitlin]

yea i know...i want to learn how to speak the speech...mabye then i would have another fictional language that i could swear in.....heh heh heh heh

but i still use all the speech that i can in everyday life...i rarely say hi, i say dai stiho. its great when people cant figure out what youre saying, and they think your putting them down.

erised straeh ruoy tub ecaf ruoy ton wohs i

[EWizard11]

Yeah, I could, but I'm not really the pestering type. (Which is a total lie). [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
P.S. Caitlin-What other fictional languages do you swear in? I need something here, my mom won't let me say crap and I need something to say!
*Ella*
"' Don't be afraid of death, Winnie. Rather, be afraid of the unlived life.'"
-Tuck Everlasting

[worlebird]

You could always say "baQa'!" (pronounced "b'aka"). It's a general Klingon expletive, equivalent to saying "crap!". Unlike the English version, however, there is no fecal reference involved.

Or you could use "Ni!" of "Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail" fame.

Or "Shazbot!" from "Mork and Mindy".

Worlebird
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[Rysade]

[Caitlin]

you could always also say
d'arvit from artemis fowl, or vhai'd from BONWM, or...... um..... well ill have to think and get more later

erised straeh ruoy tub ecaf ruoy ton wohs i

[EWizard11]

I did always like d'arvit.... [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

*Ella*

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[Quill]

Kinda like math, isn't it--at first, when learning the stuff, you have to write it all down. Eventually you progress to muttering to yourself and counting on your fingers, and eventually (if you're lucky) you can do equations in your head. Obviously this has all sorts of exceptions, but to me it's a good analogy.

Inside every cynic there's an idealist desperately yearning to be let out, and when they are let out they're usually a real pain and cause all sorts of trouble. --Chris Boucher

[Nathan]

some of the problem on paper except for very simple problems), I wonder whether Diane modeled this on her own 'workspace'.

Nathan

Non doctrinam, sed perspicuitatem quaero.

[Polly6]

I don't miss the speech as much as the discriptions of the magic

The sense of expectation,of anticipation,of impatient, overwhelming potential grew all around them as the silence grew...slowly undergoing a trasformation into a blend of delight and terror and power that could be breathed like air,or seen as shading now inhabiting every color, a presence inhabitng every shape.

from DW

The last 2 books have less of a poetic feel than the first 4 and I haven't decided if I like it or not



*Wooosh I be polydactial yo!*

[A Moonlighting X-Phile]

Redemption of Athalus, but I really like The Amber Spyglass