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The word has been used in newsgroup and hacker culture to indicate irony, humor, or Surrealism. [1] Placement at the end of a statement in brackets (fnord) explicitly tags the intent, and may be so applied to any random or surreal sentence, coercive subtext, or anything jarringly out of context, intentional or not.
Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) [3] was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction [4] and for his outspoken, combative personality. [5]
(The term "quote generator" can also be used for software that randomly selects real quotations.) Further to its esoteric interest, a discussion of parody generation as a useful technique for measuring the success of grammatical inferencing systems is included, along with suggestions for its practical application in areas of language modeling ...
Step 1: Let them read what they like, even if I think it's absolute junk. ... By 12, 41% of kids surveyed said they read less than one book a week and 53% of 12- to 17-year-olds don’t like ...
Show, don't tell is a narrative technique used in various kinds of texts to allow the reader to experience the story through actions, words, subtext, thoughts, senses, and feelings rather than through the author's exposition, summarization, and description. [1]
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We hope it will not be long before we may have other works of Science-Fiction [like Richard Henry Horne’s ‘‘The Poor Artist’’], as we believe such books likely to fulfil a good purpose, and create an interest, where, unhappily, science alone might fail.