This is sort a fusion reply to both Murmur's post, and Rob's own reply.
Doug has spent -- as of his departure date in 1998 -- thirteen years in England, including in that a year bumming about as a street gang member in/about SoHo in London. His speech has picked up some British rhythms in that time, not to mention some lower/middle-class Brit slang, which will be creeping more into his narration. You'll see some in chapter 2 of DW5, in fact, which is what prompted the discussion with Peggy -- we were talking about what kind of fun one of those philologists who analyze someone's life history from their speech patterns would get from him.
Hm. Think that's vague enough, Rob?
-- Bob
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It's a "magical" land. I think "magical" is ancient Greek for "pain in the butt". -- Bun-Bun, Sluggy Freelance, 11/9/03
Quote:Odd that this should come up right now, as Peggy and I were talking about this, in light of DW5, in the car the other night.
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You know, I've never thought of Doug as someone that calls anybody "lad." Does any American call anybody "lad"? Has he just spent that much time in Great Britain?
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Good question... But Bob didn't say anything about it when I posted the teaser, so many months ago , so I assume he's okay with the term. It isn't as if Doug's going to make a habit of using the word - he and Jean are similar in more than a few ways, so they'll become reasonably close.
Doug has spent -- as of his departure date in 1998 -- thirteen years in England, including in that a year bumming about as a street gang member in/about SoHo in London. His speech has picked up some British rhythms in that time, not to mention some lower/middle-class Brit slang, which will be creeping more into his narration. You'll see some in chapter 2 of DW5, in fact, which is what prompted the discussion with Peggy -- we were talking about what kind of fun one of those philologists who analyze someone's life history from their speech patterns would get from him.
Quote:And Doug does not put up with her foolishness, calling it such and -- if Rob uses the material I've given him -- relentlessly tears it down and exposes it.
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I think that Doug would be a great addition in the Island section, though it was during this point that Nadia became very . . . off.
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Which I'm ignoring as much as possible. The justification for Nadia's personality not changing is that Doug has shown up...
Quote:What Rob said. Believe me, Rob's got this worked out, and I've contributed a little. I think I can safely say that Doug does not have sufficient access rights to Blue Water to do anything with it -- but he does have ways of changing the order and selection of events at the climax.
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Course there's the problem of what to do with Doug during hte confrontation with Gargoyle. It has to be Nadia what does what she does with the blue water, not doug's metapowers.
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Hm. Think that's vague enough, Rob?
-- Bob
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It's a "magical" land. I think "magical" is ancient Greek for "pain in the butt". -- Bun-Bun, Sluggy Freelance, 11/9/03