tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post114464464891756309..comments2023-11-12T09:52:42.825-05:00Comments on Medieval Woman: Blogging with Historical Novelist Susan Higginbotham: Short Post Re: Short Words in a Long BookSusan Higginbothamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13517907583894026599noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-49101824491919027592007-06-12T19:23:00.000-04:002007-06-12T19:23:00.000-04:00haha, these series are intended for children. May...haha, these series are intended for children. <BR/><BR/>Maybe this link can help you see the point behind them:<BR/><BR/>http://www.accelerated-achievement.com/oneSylBooks.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-1144700133416204742006-04-10T16:15:00.000-04:002006-04-10T16:15:00.000-04:00To be or not to be, that is the.....damn!!Gabriele...To be or not to be, that is the.....damn!!<BR/><BR/>Gabriele, that word is superb! Reminds me of some 'fake German' I saw online or in a book a while ago. 'Dog' was 'Barkenpantensniffer' and a dognapper was 'Barkenpantensniffersnatcher'. The person who caught the dognapper was a 'Barkenpantensniffersnatchercatcher'. And on, and on, till it got to a word like yours! :)Kathryn Warnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00397714441908100576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-1144697698922833782006-04-10T15:34:00.001-04:002006-04-10T15:34:00.001-04:00Drat! No "over," no "into" . . . I'd better scrap ...Drat! No "over," no "into" . . . I'd better scrap that proposal I had in mind for "Shakespeare Retold in Words of One Syllable."Susan Higginbothamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517907583894026599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-1144697696232414932006-04-10T15:34:00.000-04:002006-04-10T15:34:00.000-04:00And I love those mouth-crunching German compound n...<I>And I love those mouth-crunching German compound nouns! <BR/></I><BR/><BR/>Like <A HREF="http://lostfort.blogspot.com/2005/06/monster-words.html" REL="nofollow">that</A> one? :-)Gabriele Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17205770868139083575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-1144695446067362862006-04-10T14:57:00.000-04:002006-04-10T14:57:00.000-04:00And alas, 'o-ver' has two syllables. Could it be ...And alas, 'o-ver' has two syllables. Could it be thought of as a fascinating and frustrating sort of puzzle game, like doing crosswords?Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-1144690855245131992006-04-10T13:40:00.000-04:002006-04-10T13:40:00.000-04:00Yes, poor Mrs. Pierson couldn't have used even the...Yes, poor Mrs. Pierson couldn't have used even the word "pirate." I suppose "a man who caught ships and took over them and their goods" would have been a bit cumbersome.Susan Higginbothamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517907583894026599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-1144690305141051252006-04-10T13:31:00.000-04:002006-04-10T13:31:00.000-04:00Interesting about Hugh De-spen-ser! He seems to g...Interesting about Hugh De-spen-ser! He seems to get a much better deal from historians of long ago than more recent ones -probably the older ones didn't know about all his extortions, or in this case, maybe 'extortionist' just wouldn't fit.<BR/><BR/>Love that quote by Mark Twain: 'in German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has'. And I love those mouth-crunching German compound nouns!Kathryn Warnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00397714441908100576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-1144689283404606532006-04-10T13:14:00.000-04:002006-04-10T13:14:00.000-04:00There was that joke by Mark Twain that he didn't w...There was that joke by Mark Twain that he didn't want to leave a German play he went to because he was waiting for the verb . . .<BR/><BR/>Actually, I did a little surfing, and these one-syllable books seem to have been rather popular in the US for a time in the nineteenth century. I found that a used book store had a book on George Washington in that format, and there seem to have been books published for at least a few individual states as well. One even seems to have been reissued for the home-schooling market! (Though how a child would be expected to know a word like "loath" or "vile" but not one like "without" or "about" boggles my poor mind.)Susan Higginbothamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517907583894026599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-1144688413779292452006-04-10T13:00:00.000-04:002006-04-10T13:00:00.000-04:00Only the Brits can come up with a thing like that....Only the Brits can come up with a thing like that. :-)<BR/><BR/>Btw, I would never work with the German language - something like 'no words of less than three syllables' would be easier for us.Gabriele Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17205770868139083575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-1144679649077934582006-04-10T10:34:00.000-04:002006-04-10T10:34:00.000-04:00Thanks for stopping by, Stephanie! By the way, I'm...Thanks for stopping by, Stephanie! By the way, I'm going to point my mother to your knitting blog--she likes to knit, and she just started surfing the web a few months ago. (That means I have to be ever-so-ladylike in my blog now that Mom can see it.)<BR/><BR/>These one-syllable histories are really a wacky series of books. One I can see, just to show it could be done, but a whole series?<BR/><BR/>Alianor, Edward II doesn't get very good treatment in this book (he's described as a "weak king," but his "new friend" Hugh De-spen-ser is described as "a brave, fine young man" who "might have won the love of all if he had not been the friend of the king."Susan Higginbothamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517907583894026599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-1144674319704220512006-04-10T09:05:00.000-04:002006-04-10T09:05:00.000-04:00I've truly never heard of anything so crazy.I've truly never heard of anything so crazy.Stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04549433838794370673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-1144672507950395062006-04-10T08:35:00.000-04:002006-04-10T08:35:00.000-04:00And I see today that I goofed with the word "many"...And I see today that I goofed with the word "many"! At least there are plenty of one-syllable words with which to express my frustration.<BR/><BR/>It is a fun book, though.Susan Higginbothamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517907583894026599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-1144668305902576732006-04-10T07:25:00.000-04:002006-04-10T07:25:00.000-04:00Sounds like fun, in an odd kind of way!Sounds like fun, in an odd kind of way!Marghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13508430635744720721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21031350.post-1144650800473977252006-04-10T02:33:00.000-04:002006-04-10T02:33:00.000-04:00What an incredibly odd series of books! Who could...What an incredibly odd series of books! Who could possibly have been the target audience? <BR/><BR/>Congratulations on the last paragraph. It is so hard that one should write a word with no more than one part.Kathryn Warnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00397714441908100576noreply@blogger.com