Matt Cheney’s response to John Scalzi’s post on the use of “alright” is sheer genius. I particularly like the bit from 1913 railing against the evil telegraph companies who refused to allow contractions such as “alright” because they could charge more for two words than for one.
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Are you hoping that by repeating the dread word that you might drive Scalzi to withdraw from the Hugo race?
Don’t be silly. Like I said before, the word only pains him, it doesn’t disable him. You need much more powerful ju-ju for that.
Of course I am reading Mike Carey right now, and while he is mainly good on dealing with the undead we do learn some interesting things about Juliet in the new book that might be useful against Scalzathoth. And, as I said before, there is always the geas.