Is American college and university really like always described by overwroked and overstessed reincarnators? Reading, tons of assignements, silly lectures?
A forgotten front of WWI is the Alpine Front between Italy and Austria-Hungary. It was fought on the highest peaks between 10 000 to 13 000 feet. It was a war fought far above the clouds, on glaciers and in the reign of eternal snow. It became known as the White War.
Contrary to popular perception, slavery was historically not regarded as inefficent, but rather as humanitarian as the alternative was to kill them all. Thus, their lives were spared.
Why do seemingly all Ammerican authors make all their charatcers speak and think like some fucking drug dealers? Granted, it is valid, at times, for certain strata, but not everyone from the homeless up to the president.
I always thought my plot moves slowly ... But now that I read others ... So much god damn useless slice of life and inflated word count. So much wasted page space for irrelevant stuff.
Do you know this feeling when the premise of a novel is good, but the writing atrocious that you keep shaking your head and sighing all the time. It causes such a feeling of disappointment. Not anger. Just disappointment.
Etymologically, the variants for and "fur" are closely related. Both deriving from the old Germanic root "furi". The English language however favoured the vowel shift from u to o.