Comments on: EP032: Alien Animal Encounters

By: Alien Animal Encounters by John Scalzi « Biology in Science Fiction: Free Fiction

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:53:25 +0000

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By: scatterbrain

scatterbrain — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:19:56 +0000

Funny vignette collection.

I'm definately know now I'm going to enjoy Old Man’s War.

By: BrandtPileggi

BrandtPileggi — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:11:22 +0000

wow. you guys are too cute. Although it's been said, I don't think it can be emphasized enough.

Fuckin' Texas

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 20:36:14 +0000

I heard a couple of episodes and had to download the entire archive. I’ve loved every program, but on this show you comitted one of my pet peeves. “Read by myself.”

I have stolen this explaination from “A Way With Words” from KPBS:

(http://www.kpbs.org/Radio/DynPage.php?id=218)

How did the misuse of the word myself come to be? Everyone now says, “Jane, Robert, and myself are going to the movies” and “They awarded trophies to Jane, Robert, and myself.” Do people use the word myself because they don’t know whether or not to use the word I or me?

We congratulate you on your penetrating analysis of the epidemic that we have dubbed the Myself Reflex. The most succinct statement that explains why so many speakers and writers misuse, abuse, and overuse the pronoun myself was cobbled by Red Smith, the graceful New York sportswriter: “Myself is the foxhole of ignorance where cowards take refuge because they were taught that me is vulgar and I is egotistical.”

In other words, speakers and writers are often addlepated or chickenhearted about choosing the proper cases for their pronouns: the nominative case ‚Äì I — for subjects and the accusative case ‚Äì me — for objects. The only three contexts in which myself should ever appear are:

(1) as a reflexive pronoun used as an object of a verb whose subject is the same: “I hurt myself climbing the walls of my home.”

(2) as an intensifier: “I myself wouldn’t be caught dead bungee jumping.”

(3) in special idioms: “I removed the popcorn from the ceiling all by myself.”

By: Mark Forman

Mark Forman — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 05:26:22 +0000

Good story-what’s with more of the “Terra”ble NY accents? Right on for survey/charity link-good moves both “pre and post” complaint.

By: Scott Janssens

Scott Janssens — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:15:57 +0000

Having heard some of Sullydog’s ER stories, I forgot for a moment that he didn’t actually write the section about the fungdu.

By: Robbie Taylor

Robbie Taylor — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:35:20 +0000

“Fuckin’ Texas” will now be my favorite saying whenever something about my home state mystifies me…

By: John

John — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:52:38 +0000

Fuckin’ Texas? Fuckin’ A! Hoo-yeah!

So glad Scalzi sent you this! Old Man’s War was great and a sequel is worth paying for. Excellent clarification and discussion of donations to charity, Steve. Well done.

I’m wondering how long you can keep making each new episode the best ever. Can this go on? Bravo.