Monday, February 23, 2009
The Dramatic Return of SHOUJAKE !!!
Nearly done with a final polish of MIND PLAGUE, I decided to change a spearcarrier's name from Ted to Jake because I also had a Tony and a Trish and that's too many T names. Normally I'd just do this manually throughout the ms., because I'm a caveman and I hate MS Word, which thinks it's smarter than you and constantly tries to enforce any number of "time savers" and mandatory formattings. Boy, do I miss WordPerfect, which was like using a typewriter, pure and easy. Alas, Microsoft rules the world. For conformity's sake I need to submit my manuscripts in MS Word, so I use it exclusively now.
I thought I'd be all non-caveman and use the Find function to swap out every "Ted" with "Jake." Think of how much I could accomplish with the minutes I'd saved! Heck, I might invent cold fusion in my spare time! Hooray!
This was a big fat mistake. I only noticed because when the Find/Replace function was done, it reported it had made nearly two hundred changes in the file, even though Ted/Jake is barely mentioned twenty times. That's weird, I'm thinking... but it turns out that anytime someone shouted in the story, they'd now done something called a shoujake, which sounds Japanese, right?
"Watch out!" Cam shoujake.
Great. So I hit Undo and proceeded to make those changes manually. The computer is *not* smarter than you are. :)
I thought I'd be all non-caveman and use the Find function to swap out every "Ted" with "Jake." Think of how much I could accomplish with the minutes I'd saved! Heck, I might invent cold fusion in my spare time! Hooray!
This was a big fat mistake. I only noticed because when the Find/Replace function was done, it reported it had made nearly two hundred changes in the file, even though Ted/Jake is barely mentioned twenty times. That's weird, I'm thinking... but it turns out that anytime someone shouted in the story, they'd now done something called a shoujake, which sounds Japanese, right?
"Watch out!" Cam shoujake.
Great. So I hit Undo and proceeded to make those changes manually. The computer is *not* smarter than you are. :)
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OMG man, I miss Word Perfect too! I learned it in High School and I was a wiz - with just doing some 'reveal codes' action I could make memos sing and carry a tune. I loathe Word and its place in the Microsoft monopoly.
# posted by 
: February 24, 2009 at 9:23 PM
: February 24, 2009 at 9:23 PM 
Believe it or not, I think there's a setting in the Find/Replace that would have avoided the shoujake problem. But alas, it was not invoked.
Although I'm going to have to use "shoujake" somewhere. Not sure yet where. It'll go in my mind along with all the other weird but possible place names.
-kat
Although I'm going to have to use "shoujake" somewhere. Not sure yet where. It'll go in my mind along with all the other weird but possible place names.
-kat
# posted by : February 25, 2009 at 10:47 AM
: February 25, 2009 at 10:47 AM
Oh, you can slip "shoujake" into conversation easily, my dear. "Last week I was at shoujake." "How does your shoujake taste?" "Hey, loan me some shoujake..."
Lmao... I did this once, only mine didn't turn out G rated. -.- don't ask! Why do we think computers are so smart? Too funny.
Let's order some chicken with shoujake (sho-JAH-key) sauce and mushrooms at P.F. Chang's next time, 'k?
# posted by : February 26, 2009 at 11:06 PM
: February 26, 2009 at 11:06 PM
C'mon, M, we want to hear your X-rated blunder. Share!
Penny, you're mispronouncing it, my dear. Shoujake is Japanese, not Chinese, and of course should be pronouncing SHOE JAH KAY... :P
...but I'll be in Sacramento in June at Book Lovers. Let's do something.
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Penny, you're mispronouncing it, my dear. Shoujake is Japanese, not Chinese, and of course should be pronouncing SHOE JAH KAY... :P
...but I'll be in Sacramento in June at Book Lovers. Let's do something.
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