pounding

[oggbashan]

It was Senior Service Cadets at the shop near my school. It was a suspendable offence to be caught in there.

I went to a boys' school. The parallel girls' school was about half a mile away but they walked past our school (and the corner shop) to get to their school.

The corner shop had a sideline. In one of the back storerooms the owner installed a set of lockers. Each locker was about an 18 inch cube space. For a small weekly fee you could rent a locker to store things you shouldn't take into school. In the 1950s at first the girls used the lockers more than the boys.

Why?

It was the era of big skirts puffed out with multiple starched petticoats. At school the girls were only allowed one layer of petticoat and their skirts hung limply. They would travel to and from school with their full petticoats, take them off in the back room, and stuff the forbidden petticoats in a locker.

The boys soon realised that if they too rented a locker they could go into the back room with the girls and the result can't be written because of Lit's rules.

 

[sr71plt]

In some parts of the world, readers would be wondering why they'd set fire to the furniture.

Cigarette brands aren't a good way of setting the time context for an international readership. In any case, I wonder how many younger readers would get an idea of the time context from knowing that a character smoked Player's Weights. I doubt they've ever heard of them or even know what they were.

I target readers who will look things up and will get a little shiver of pleasure when they've discovered deeper connections than just the surface story line. Also, when I write period pieces, I try to use references from that period. I don't think I care too much about catering to the pablum reader.

 

[Bramblethorn]

In some parts of the world, readers would be wondering why they'd set fire to the furniture.

Cigarette brands aren't a good way of setting the time context for an international readership. In any case, I wonder how many younger readers would get an idea of the time context from knowing that a character smoked Player's Weights. I doubt they've ever heard of them or even know what they were.

For me, that would give an impression of "before my time". Might not be as specific as the author had hoped for, but it's in the right direction.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Couldn't resist.....

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[sr71plt]

Hi . . . lar . . . i . . . ous.

 

[SimonDoom]

Couldn't resist.....

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I think that's ending this thread on a high note. Or at least, I hope so.

 

[CyranoJ]

Being new here I noted men using such words as POUNDING is that how you see sex

Fuck, yeah! But only with lady-friends who also see it that way.

https://media.giphy.com/media/aLmmfJRiTohY4/giphy.gif

 

[Hypoxia]

How about pounding the impounded?

They can't escape.

Neither can we.

 

[Green_Knight]

I target readers who will look things up and will get a little shiver of pleasure when they've discovered deeper connections than just the surface story line. Also, when I write period pieces, I try to use references from that period. I don't think I care too much about catering to the pablum reader.

References from the time in period pieces can be a problem if you're not very well clued up on that period. Try to be too clever and get it wrong and there will be a host of experts who will descend on you to put you right. And do you try to write in the language of the period, running the risk of using words that weren't invented until later or having to use ones that are now unknown?

I am just writing a book (non-Lit, non-erotic) set in the eighteenth century and the research needed is reaching horrendous levels.

And, by the way, talking of words that will be unknown to readers, pablum means nothing to readers this side of the Atlantic.

 

[sr71plt]

References from the time in period pieces can be a problem if you're not very well clued up on that period. Try to be too clever and get it wrong and there will be a host of experts who will descend on you to put you right. And do you try to write in the language of the period, running the risk of using words that weren't invented until later or having to use ones that are now unknown?

I am just writing a book (non-Lit, non-erotic) set in the eighteenth century and the research needed is reaching horrendous levels.

And, by the way, talking of words that will be unknown to readers, pablum means nothing to readers this side of the Atlantic.

Yeah, it's called being a writer. It's hard so you don't try to do it? You just want to write pablum? On pablum, Google is your friend. You don't have to remain provincial if you don't want to (and it's not my job to write to the level of universal understanding of those who won't put any effort into expanding their world). Also, on the law of averages, I'd be just fine only writing to Americans. (although I don't--I've lived extensively across the world and write from those experiences and from living in several different cultures). This is a U.S.-based site.

 

[Green_Knight]

Yeah, it's called being a writer. It's hard so you don't try to do it? You just want to write pablum? On pablum, Google is your friend. You don't have to remain provincial if you don't want to (and it's not my job to write to the level of universal understanding of those who won't put any effort into expanding their world).

Without wishing to offend those Americans who aren't know-it-alls, that's a dangerous statement for an American to make. Anecdotal evidence suggests that Europeans are far more aware of what's going on in the USA than Americans are of what happens in Europe. I and vast numbers of Europeans can tell you what happened at your president's latest press conference; how many Americans can even name the president of the European Commission. The same is probably true with naming US States and EU member states. And I wonder if you can name the European equivalents of Pablum.

I do suggest that you refrain from telling me how to write or suggesting that I just want to write pablum. Once again, you're only showing that, all too often, you have no idea what you're talking about. The research for my latest book involved the study of some 10,000 original documents up to 200 years old, not just taking a quick look on Wikipedia or delving into other people's books for a few quick titbits to try to make your period works sound a bit more authentic. Among other sources, my current book, to which I referred, has involved reading countless 250 year-old newspapers and researching into British, French, Dutch, Spanish and American history. So, save your homilies about research and your jibes about 'provincial'. To research properly is hard work, but it's very rewarding, as you'd know if you'd ever done it.

Also, on the law of averages, I'd be just fine only writing to Americans. (although I don't--I've lived extensively across the world and write from those experiences and from living in several different cultures). This is a U.S.-based site.

Odd, then, that the site uses the Union Flag in various places but never the Stars and Stripes!

 

[sr71plt]

Odd, here I thought you were trying to school me in writing.

Or playing king of the mountain, or something.

 

[sr71plt]

Odd, then, that the site uses the Union Flag in various places but never the Stars and Stripes!

The Union Flag is the international symbol for English language. That doesn't give me heartburn. You apparently want to challenge whether this is an American-based Web site. How interesting and jingoist (and obviously incorrect) of you. Your position is that this isn't a U.S.-based Web site?

On a related issue, you're such a stylist expert--tell me what editorial style this Web site is using in its own presentation. American or British?

 

[sr71plt]

At least we're still on the topic of pounding.

 

[Green_Knight]

Your position is that this isn't a U.S.-based Web site?

No, it very clearly sets out to be international in outlook.

On a related issue, you're such a stylist expert--tell me what editorial style this Web site is using in its own presentation. American or British?

To correct you there, you need to replace your double hyphen by an em rule (aka em dash), viz:

…you're such a stylist expert—tell me what editorial style…
​

Moving on from that, Lit doesn't use or specify any particular editorial style in either the Writers' Guidelines/Submission Guidelines page or the FAQs. There are various contributions in the Essays and How-to's section of the Writer's Resources page. These are written by all and sundry and are not mandatory. Nowhere is the Chicago Manual of Style mandated. Personally, I use the New Oxford Style Manual as the basis of the style that I use.

Once again, Lit takes an internationalist approach. After all, it would look pretty silly if it insisted that a story written in German, for example, had to be punctuated in the American style.

And, as you point out, the Union Flag is the international symbol for the English language.

 

[sr71plt]

Umm, no. The Web site uses U.S. style only in its presentation. And it insists that British style give way to American style on occasion (we get complaints on this frequently on the forum)--probably not intentionally but because it doesn't fully understand British style. The Web site uses American style.

And I'm still dying to see your evidence that this Web site isn't based in the United States.

You continue with your narrow-minded provincialism and false illusions. And now I've had enough of you--and no doubt others have had enough of us on these points. So, play king of the mountain now to your heart's desire.

 

[Bramblethorn]

And, by the way, talking of words that will be unknown to readers, pablum means nothing to readers this side of the Atlantic.

Without wishing to offend those Americans who aren't know-it-alls, that's a dangerous statement for an American to make. Anecdotal evidence suggests that Europeans are far more aware of what's going on in the USA than Americans are of what happens in Europe. I and vast numbers of Europeans can tell you what happened at your president's latest press conference; how many Americans can even name the president of the European Commission. The same is probably true with naming US States and EU member states.

I think your second quote argues against the first there. "Pablum" is rarely used in British English, but for exactly the sort of reasons you've just given, many Britons will have encountered it and know what it means.

In any case, authors shouldn't be afraid to occasionally use a word that some of their readers might not know. If readers can navigate the web well enough to find Literotica, they can work a search engine. Used sparingly, such words can add to the flavour of a story.

Odd, then, that the site uses the Union Flag in various places but never the Stars and Stripes!

The Hawaiian state flag has a Union Jack and no stars. Doesn't mean it's part of the UK

 

[Green_Knight]

...In any case, authors shouldn't be afraid to occasionally use a word that some of their readers might not know. If readers can navigate the web well enough to find Literotica, they can work a search engine. Used sparingly, such words can add to the flavour of a story.

But you need to be careful that it doesn't make it look as though you're showing off.

The Hawaiian state flag has a Union Jack and no stars. Doesn't mean it's part of the UK

A symbol in the canton of any flag implies nothing of that kind. Samoa, for example, is not part of the Southern Cross constellation, but that's what appears in the canton of its flag. It's purely a symbol. Mind you, many of us over here are assuming that the Russian flag will soon appear in the canton of the Stars and Stripes.

 

[Hypoxia]

I feel pounded by irrelevancies.

 

[sr71plt]

I feel pounded by irrelevancies.

I guess the connection is choice of word usage in what you write.

 

[Bramblethorn]

A symbol in the canton of any flag implies nothing of that kind. Samoa, for example, is not part of the Southern Cross constellation, but that's what appears in the canton of its flag. It's purely a symbol.

That was pretty much my point

 

[FavoriteAunt]

Couldn't resist.....

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https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT6TYfcrcpKtbmaBIbiTF2EWc5WJiv73GAiutrHorxCc9IiqHTjnQ

Ditto.
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[ChloeTzang]

Ditto.
http://i.imgur.com/pgLNdt3.png

Now that's getting us back on topic.

 

[FavoriteAunt]

Now that's getting us back on topic.

*Fistbump*

 

[sr71plt]

*Fistbump*

A pounding fist bump?