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Will said spectres were in our world too!
PostPosted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:39 pm
by Diolmhain
How exactly did he come up with this? I know what he said about his Mom but if that was true wouldnt we all be lifeless shells? This has been confusing me a lot.
PostPosted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:42 pm
by Soapy
I still find it amazing that people can spell 'spectres' incorrectly even though it's, like, written 500 times in HDM.
PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:34 am
by jessia
and it's definitely spelt spectres in the north american editions too.
PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:32 am
by Symon
And also, a lot of people are lifeless shells.
And also, Will is in a book.
Re: Will said specters were in our world too!
PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:50 am
by Mockingbird
surge wrote:How exactly did he come up with this? I know what he said about his Mom but if that was true wouldnt we all be lifeless shells? This has been confusing me a lot.
Well, grammar lessons aside, I think that Will is trying to justify his mother's delusions. She is probably acting a bit crazy because she is a bit crazy. There are most likely no *spectres* in our world, and if there are, very few.
Re: Will said specters were in our world too!
PostPosted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:53 pm
by Diolmhain
Mockingbird wrote:Well, grammar lessons aside, I think that Will is trying to justify his mother's delusions. She is probably acting a bit crazy because she is a bit crazy. There are most likely no *spectres* in our world, and if there are, very few.
Very true.
Sorry again about the spelling and grammar.
PostPosted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:52 pm
by DutchCrunch
Perhaps the spectres only attack university professors or high school teachers. I'd say MPs might be regular victims as well. Of course, don't forget middle managers in big firms. All these people appear like 93.8% to 98.7% of their personality was sucked out.
PostPosted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:01 pm
by Mockingbird
jessia wrote:and it's definitely spelt spectres in the north american editions too.
I wasn't criticising your spelling surge. And it's not spelt
spectres in all versions. It's spelt
specters in my U.S.A edition.
PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 5:01 am
by Stargirl
Anyways, back to the topic of the thread....
I remember he mentioned the homeless woman he saw pushing her shopping cart around, I thought that was a bit odd but I see what he might mean, how so many people pretend to not see the homeless, turning a blind eye. Maybe the idea of the spectres are in our world, just in a diffrent form, sucking the life out of people little by little, i can totally see that with government propaganda.
PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 5:16 am
by jessia
Mockingbird wrote:jessia wrote:and it's definitely spelt spectres in the north american editions too.
I wasn't criticising your spelling surge. And it's not spelt
spectres in all versions. It's spelt
specters in my U.S.A edition.
is it really?
PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 5:26 am
by Stargirl
Yeah it's spelled specters in mine too.
PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:24 am
by Mockingbird
Stargirl wrote:Anyways, back to the topic of the thread....
I remember he mentioned the homeless woman he saw pushing her shopping cart around, I thought that was a bit odd but I see what he might mean, how so many people pretend to not see the homeless, turning a blind eye. Maybe the idea of the spectres are in our world, just in a diffrent form, sucking the life out of people little by little, i can totally see that with government propaganda.
That's a philosophical musing stargirl
I don't think soul-sucking Dementor types physically exist in our world.
Oh and yes jessica, really.
PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 2:19 pm
by Leif
And Pantalaimon said, "The Specters... She told us about the Specters, too."
PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 2:44 pm
by Ian
How utterly depressing that spectre became that 'thing' in the US versions. It's like changing 'mum' to 'mom' and Philosopher to Sorcerer from Harry Potter. It's enough to make me cry that Americans can't cope with British spelling.
PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 3:13 pm
by Peter
What did they do with James Bond?
SPecial
Executor for
Counter-Intelligence,
Terrorism,
Revenge and
Extortion
PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:07 pm
by Mockingbird
Ian wrote:How utterly depressing that spectre became that 'thing' in the US versions. It's like changing 'mum' to 'mom' and Philosopher to Sorcerer from Harry Potter. It's enough to make me cry that Americans can't cope with British spelling.
Would you like a hanky? Yes, we're very stupid in America. We walk around bouncing off walls, misspelling words and wishing we had never won our independence. How I would still love to be a British subject.
PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:41 pm
by Enitharmon
Mockingbird wrote:Would you like a hanky? Yes, we're very stupid in America. We walk around bouncing off walls, misspelling words and wishing we had never won our independence. How I would still love to be a British subject.
And the only great writers America ever produced - Henry James, T S Eliot, Sylvia Plath - all ended their lives as Brits anyway
(Apart from Raymond Chandler who was really a Brit in the first place)
PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:06 pm
by Mockingbird
Enitharmon wrote:And the only great writers America ever produced - Henry James, T S Eliot, Sylvia Plath - all ended their lives as Brits anyway
(Apart from Raymond Chandler who was really a Brit in the first place)
What was that? They ended their lives as they had become Brits? That's probably true. I heard that Sylvia Plath expressly stated so in her suicide note
And you're welcome to claim Raymond Chandler
PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 9:18 pm
by Peter
Calm down, Moxie.
PostPosted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:43 am
by Undestined
What about Twain? What about Jefferson? What about Poe? What about... um...ok, just those three.