This Week's Newsletter Arrived - Not Bad

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   Kenna McHughposted 3 years ago

   The newsletter arrived with some valuable information that I can use as a writer. What do you all think?

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      Miebakagh57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      The news letter is great. I read it. The points raised about the use of odd English words are vital to any sentense structure.

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   boxelderredposted 3 years ago

   I think there's no small amount of irony in this statement in the newsletter:  "Get Ideas From the Comments Section: Have you gotten comments from readers looking for information related to your topic that isn't included in your article? Consider adding a new section with a searchable header to answer that question."
   
   So...if we get readers who find our articles before they are published and no longer able to make comments...this is really, really good advice.  However, in the course of just a couple hours from publication, the articles are over on discover.hubpages and the googler who might find the article will not have means/ability/know how to comment...unless they are also on HP/Maven, have access to the feed, have the will and ability to dig through the feed to find the article in question, then ask the question.   
   
   So, yeah: no small amount of irony in that tidbit of advice right there.

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      Miebakagh57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Greg Cain, it's very understandable. And I'm with you in that.                                   Honestly, the challenge is beyound the reader. Once an article moves to discover, that's then the end of an initial or original comment making.                                    Critically, if the comment button is still open in the background within the feed settings, you can still post comments for the first time. But that's not a bet. Now if ya make the same comments two or three times, and it didn't move, the background is closed to all late comers and readers!                                      Seriously, I have not write a story for a year. The pandemic didn't give me access to my local library for referencing. So we all pleading for the comment button to be back.                                         Moreso, wheather the comment button is restored or not  I think I had a trick to keep article on hubpages for two weeks before it move to discover or... This also is not a sure bet.

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      Kenna McHughposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Box, I thought the same thing. He must have snagged that from the Learning Center, which hasn't been updated, I suspect.

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   Rupert Taylorposted 3 years ago

   I would feel better if they had linked to my own article on HP about the Mandela Effect rather than going outside to community for essentially the same information.
   
   The title is "Memories from an Alternative Universe." You can look it up if you have a mind to, but you can't comment on it to give me hints about how it might be improved.

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      Miebakagh57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Rupert, is "Memories from Alternate Universe" on discover or a niche site? Thanks, and have a nice time.

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   boxelderredposted 3 years ago

   Rupert - in effort to help make you feel somewhat better, I read your Alternate Universe / Mandela Effect article, found it interesting and informative.  I would have left a comment at bottom of the article if that feature were available.  In any case, however, it certainly fit the bill to explain the effect, so I, too, am unclear on why they didn't link to yours instead of one external to HubPages.  I didn't read the one they linked in the newsletter, but maybe I'll go back and do that to see if there was something in the other article that might explain why they went that route.  I also found it interesting, coincidental, if not ironic that they mentioned usage of comprise / comprised of on the very day M-W.com had a long discussion on the topic in their Word of the Day e-mail (it was today's edition).  That discussion is linked here:  https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-a … utm_email=
   
   In short, while I am not a fan of "comprised of," don't use the phrase in that manner myself, I am a lesser fan of the (mis)use of other words (such as "orientated" or "disorientated" when "oriented" or "disoriented" is what is meant, as just two examples).  Still, I am inclined to run with the bottom line discussion from the M-W.com folks when it comes to the phrase "comprised of": if you use it, you might be opening yourself up to criticism, but hundreds of years of common usage says it's not necessarily wrong.  And insisting it's wrong from atop a pulpit of some sort, saying it's absolutely nothing but wrong is perhaps just being obstinate for the sake of being obstinate.  It's certainly not what I would call an educational discourse, anyway.

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      Miebakagh57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Greg Cain, thanks for lectureing us thus far. It seems more awkward, than funny.                                  Besides, Rupert, is fond of words. I hope he make a story or two out of this, and the newsletter? My pleasure meeting you here for the first time on hubpages.

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      Kenna McHughposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Box, when I write "consists of" my grammar program always wants me to use "comprised of," which I find interesting and never really consider it right or wrong.

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         Miebakagh57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

         I'm at home with 'consist of' but not 'comprised of'. I have never used the later in any sentense.

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   Rupert Taylorposted 3 years ago

   Miebakagh - Memories from an Alternate Universe is on Owlcation.

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      Miebakagh57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Rupert, thanks. Will visit later.

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   EricDockettposted 3 years ago

   I was surprised to see the Mandela Effect used as an explanation as to why people get words wrong. People usually get words wrong because they don't know any better, not typically because they honestly misremember.
   
   The Mandela Effect, on the other hand, is proof that we are all living in a computer simulation controlled by aliens. Sometimes data gets corrupted or overwritten and our memories become unreliable. It's pretty obvious.

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      Kenna McHughposted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Eric, haha. I like your analogy. Either you're a wordsmith, or you have the Mandela Effect. It can't be both.

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      Miebakagh57posted 3 years agoin reply to this

      Exactly.

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   Rupert Taylorposted 3 years ago

   You nailed it Eric.

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