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:) It's a thorny thing because unless you know, it's easy to miss, and even if no one would blame you (you're obviously not trying to cause offense and it's not an especially pressing issue, as seen by the fact that the proposal I linked has been dormant) sometimes stuff is weird, and we like...

It is my understanding- and please note as I said above I am not qualified to speak on this in any way that matters, only for my own understanding- that it's not so much an active issue as it is one of those 'hey that's kinda messed up we should probably do better at some point' issues at the...

(Small point regarding some of the words here: siwash/siawash is a word for any local Native, and a word that entered the trade jargon of the Pacific Northwest by corruption from the French and English sauvage/savage. As you might guess, that last word has had a bit of a rough patch lately and...

Okay but let's be honest if we were to be judged on the merits of one set of books We could definitely do worse than the Mack Maloney books where he travels to an alternate timeline to fight Nazis in his F-16

'Duffle bag' is perhaps my worst instance of this (I use 'carryall bag' in most places where it or a similar term would appear, because 'duffle bag' dates back to only the early 20th century, its earliest known appearance in, of all things, an e. e. cummings poem), but the inverse is also...

A lot of these problems of publication order vs timeline order come from us reading them out of time, with the full benefit of retrospective hindsight- I know Thande points this out obliquely in the article, but arguably the only reason we can notice problems like this is because these novels...

Any significant port, river ford, river outlet0 fertile plain, etc will usually see some type of city, as we see in OTL across basically everywhere with significant human habitation. Major cities, though, often depend on a combination of definition (probably the biggest factor tbh- what that...

'Alt history stories you quite enjoyed except for one or two things'

I'm not saying it's a bad thing (except sometimes it might get a little excessive when y'all hit on a bugbear like NDCR), indeed quite the opposite I wish something I wrote was someone's least favorite AH, because seeing you guys go at it the way you do in this thread would actually teach me...

so because I just utterly despise my mental health or something, I read a significant chunk of this thread tonight and man, I'd love for someone to pick apart anything I wrote as thoroughly as you people ravage things you didn't even have to read