Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:27:23 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Paging Rod Serling...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 07:52 PM 10/25/2005, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.net> wrote:
> > I've pleased to know that they liked it, and really do appreciate
> > your keeping track of these anniversaries.  Would you mind
> > continuing to do so and posting them to the list?
>
>I'm glad someone appreciates it.  I've mentioned everything from
>the 40th anniversary of Lost in Space to the 0th anniversary of
>the awakening of Julian West (from an 1887 novel), to the 100th
>anniversary of Special Relativity, but seldom get any feedback.

I'm sorry, I should have been giving it all along.  I'm not organized
enough to be a timebinder in the sense that you use the word but I love to
hear about the things that you come find.  It's really, really cool.

If I can come up with a title for the folder I'd like to start filing all
of the past and future events that you put here.  I should have done so a
long time ago.

In certain sections of fandom there's a Timebinders group, Rich Lynch being
part of it and others here as well, that's trying to collect various things
about our history.  What I seem to collect is oral history as I like to get
people talking about things and hear about our history.  Unfortunately I
don't retain all of the details and can't write things up, especially as
the conversations are often late at night and often over drinks.

> > Could you ask your coworker if commas should be inside or outside of
> > quotations?
>
>I said he's the only one who *cares*, not the only one who *knows*.
>
>In American English, commas go inside the quote marks.  (In British
>English, outside.)  But nobody is likely to complain if you do
>it wrong.

Nobody complains but it bothers me when I don't get it right.  I had a
wonderful teacher in high school who was exacting about writing so I
especially want to do it in his honor.  I seem to have settled on British
English, though, which wasn't what he taught but at least it's correct
somewhere.  I'll add this to a letter I'm writing to him, although I
haven't found him again.

Elspeth