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cat63 at 02:50pm on 02/12/2010 under fish-slappable offences, grumpy carol is grumpy, pedantry are we
cat63 at 02:50pm on 02/12/2010 under fish-slappable offences, grumpy carol is grumpy, pedantry are weAnyone who uses the word "drabble" to mean "any short piece of writing".
The longer the piece they use it of, the larger the fish they should be slapped with.
The thing that really irks me about this is that there are plenty of words already for short pieces of writing - short story, vignette, ficlet, to name but three - but there is no other word which means " a story of exactly one hundred words" so if the "language evolves" gang get their way, we will lose a word with an exact meaning and gain not very much at all. If anything. Grr!
The longer the piece they use it of, the larger the fish they should be slapped with.
The thing that really irks me about this is that there are plenty of words already for short pieces of writing - short story, vignette, ficlet, to name but three - but there is no other word which means " a story of exactly one hundred words" so if the "language evolves" gang get their way, we will lose a word with an exact meaning and gain not very much at all. If anything. Grr!
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