Stephen Hawking Posted April 8, 2016 Author Share Posted April 8, 2016 (edited) Mrs. Davies grants Sheldon "a fortnight's compassionate leave", so he can take care of a traumatized Amy. I only found out after I'd published the chapter, it should've been "two weeks compassionate leave". Edited April 8, 2016 by Stephen Hawking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantagrae Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 On 4/8/2016 at 11:47 AM, Stephen Hawking said: Thanks Tensor. I dropped a clanger in The Survival Imperative, when I used the term "fortnight". It was pointed out to me, that the term isn't used in America. I was quite surprised to learn, that you can't buy Hot Dog sausages in jars, over there. Yeah, I think that once in a while I've heard the word fortnight used here in the US, but I think it generally sounds a little pretentious. What do you mean by hot dog sausages? Do you mean something like Vienna sausages (little fat, kind of finger-sized "sausages")? If that's what you mean, they come in cans... Or do you mean something else? Regular hot dogs come in plastic packages, kind of like lunchmeat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Hawking Posted April 12, 2016 Author Share Posted April 12, 2016 1 minute ago, phantagrae said: Or do you mean something else? Regular hot dogs come in plastic packages, kind of like lunchmeat. I'm talking about big, long sausages (OK, stop sniggering you lot ), which you put on a roll. Like these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phantagrae Posted April 12, 2016 Share Posted April 12, 2016 Yeah, so those would be considered regular hot dogs, and would come in plastic packaging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tensor Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 On April 12, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Stephen Hawking said: I'm talking about big, long sausages (OK, stop sniggering you lot ), which you put on a roll. Stephen, in the US hot dogs are are generic term for a slimmer sausage. Hot dogs can be long (up to a foot long, or even longer). Note the plastic packaging. And though the thickness varies here, these are all hot dogs. Generally what American's think of as sausage are the thicker pieces below. Note the long, thinner pieces are though of in the US as Hot Dogs. While sausages tend to be thicker. Sausages come in various sizes: The top center pieces are about the size, width wise, as hot dogs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Hawking Posted June 4, 2016 Author Share Posted June 4, 2016 In the USA, is the stuff they bond to kitchen counter top called Melamine, like it is over here? Or, is there another name for it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenafan Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 I just recently posted my latest fanfic. After publishing on fanfic.net I went back in and made some corrections, but instead of my corrections getting published, a much older draft of it overwrote not only my edits, but the final version that did get published. I caught it when the word count dropped considerably. I have had to go back and recreate from memory everything I lost and republish, and I know this has altered my story a bit from anyone who read it the first day. I'm embarrassed for anyone who read my working draft by mistake because there were a lot of errors. I've fixed it, but the bad copy was up for over 24 hours. Has anyone ever had this happen to them? Is this an issue with doing edits with the doc manager on ff.net? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrWackaDoodle Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 7 hours ago, jenafan said: I just recently posted my latest fanfic. After publishing on fanfic.net I went back in and made some corrections, but instead of my corrections getting published, a much older draft of it overwrote not only my edits, but the final version that did get published. I caught it when the word count dropped considerably. I have had to go back and recreate from memory everything I lost and republish, and I know this has altered my story a bit from anyone who read it the first day. I'm embarrassed for anyone who read my working draft by mistake because there were a lot of errors. I've fixed it, but the bad copy was up for over 24 hours. Has anyone ever had this happen to them? Is this an issue with doing edits with the doc manager on ff.net? I've had something similar happen recently as well. For me, luckily, it was before publishing. I found that the issue was that I had been editing the document on both my laptop and my Kindle Fire and for some reason when I switch between the two, FFN saves the document on the device I'm working on at the moment. I have no clue why it would overwrite a published story, other than some weird setting in your browser history (cookies.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenafan Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 \@DrWackaDoodle Thank you. That explains it because I've been using three different devices to work on my story in my free time via the FFN doc manager. I did notice a couple times that the site asked if I wanted to refresh after publishing, and I'm wondering if that caused the problem as well. The only thing that is bothering me is wondering how many people read the bad copy and left off scratching their head wondering how I could possibly think that was worth publishing, and all caused because I went in to correct a couple misspelled words. I literally lost about 800 words in my story and had to go back and recreate the missing pieces by memory. I think my mistake was relying solely on FFN doc manager instead of MS Word. Anyway, thanks again for taking the time to reply. It has helped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Hawking Posted October 29, 2016 Author Share Posted October 29, 2016 Try editing directly in Fanfic.net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Hawking Posted December 29, 2019 Author Share Posted December 29, 2019 Do Americans know what Chinese Burns are? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chucky Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 44 minutes ago, Stephen Hawking said: Do Americans know what Chinese Burns are? As far as I can remember, I've never heard of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Hawking Posted December 29, 2019 Author Share Posted December 29, 2019 (edited) It's where you grab someones arm, with both hands, side by side, and swivel your hands in opposite directions, thereby causing pain by friction. So what would the American term be for it? Edited December 29, 2019 by Stephen Hawking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shell Posted December 29, 2019 Share Posted December 29, 2019 (edited) 5 hours ago, Stephen Hawking said: Do Americans know what Chinese Burns are? I've heard those called Indian burns (I've received my fair share over the years) Edited December 29, 2019 by shell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Hawking Posted December 30, 2019 Author Share Posted December 30, 2019 20 hours ago, shell said: I've heard those called Indian burns So is that the American term for it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shell Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 4 hours ago, Stephen Hawking said: So is that the American term for it? yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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