Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:32:48 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] SFWA cain't spell right ...[WSFA] Re: Why Charlie Stross Hates Star Trek
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

>
>>>> Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com> 10/13/2009 3:59 PM >>>
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: Mike B. <yahoo at omniphile.com>
>To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
>Cc: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Tue, October 13, 2009 12:49:20 PM
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: Why Charlie Stross Hates Star Trek
>
>Michael Walsh wrote:
>> http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/10/why_i_hate_star_trek=
.html
>
>Very good points, and a good summary of why movie and TV SF generally
>sucks compared to novels and short stories.
>===========
>
>It's much like my own analysis, that all standard tv is like that.
>(I commented there in more detail.)
>
>However, there's a totally unrelated comment I'd like to make more
>directly but can't because SFWA closed comments on their
>"Turkey City Lexicon."  They have misused "diffuse" for "defuse"
> in the section "You Can't Fire Me, I Quit."   I'm sort of accustomed
>to that mistake in online material, but for SFWA to do it is upsetting.
>They also had a typo in the head: "Stapeldon" in Part Five; they
>spelled it correctly in the text.
>
>I'm not in SFWA, obviously.  I hope someone will bring this to their
>attention.  The "diffuse/defuse" mistake weakens their image.

Jane Jewell, Executive Secretary of SFWA will be attending Capclave.  I'm =
sure if brought to her attention she'll be *amused* and will forward the =
info to the appropriate person..

Or perhaps this: http://www.sfwa.org/feedback/

mjw