I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.
Wednesday, 5 May 2010 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
freckles_and_doubtI just found the note I scrawled in my diary to record a billboard headline over the weekend, mostly in the spirit of "WTF??!?" As usual, the Daily Voice is doing its mad poetic stuff:
THE REV REKS BEK ON BURKAS
WTF? I am completely unable to parse that for any value of "sense", and I know it's correct, I checked it on several different posters when I copied it down. Mad props for games with assonance and alliteration, but zero points when they lead to the complete obliteration of actual meaning. Searching on any of those terms or any terms likely to be abbreviated thusly reveals absolutely no news stories to which it could possibly be referring. Is there some Afrikaans key I'm missing? Yours, confused.
Other than linguistic confusion, I got nuttin' today, and shall, as is traditional, fill the gap with linkery. This is Jonathan Lethem being sane, dignified and eloquent on the universality of literary borrowing and the stupidity of draconine copyright laws, which is particularly entertaining given the current fanfic fandom furore (see, I too can alliterate!) over Diana Gabaldon's anti-fic hissy fit.
And this is the membership sign-up form for AussieCon, which is this year's WorldCon and thus the site of the Hugo voting process. If you sign up as an associate member you are entitled to download the entire raft of Hugo nominees - novels, short stories, graphic works et al - in e-form, because you're also entitled to vote in the Hugos from a distance, owing to the marvel of the modern Internet. This costs AU$70, and I just did it, thus bluing my entire month's book-buying budget in one fell swoop. However, since this nets me five novels, five non-fiction books (including Farah Mendlesohn's new one on Joanna Russ, squeee!), about 20-30 short stories, several graphic novels and a whole bunch of other stuff, I am significantly not complaining. Also, I get to vote in the Hugos. This has never felt like a real possibility before: by definition, South African science fiction fans are pretty much marginalised from the con scene. I've usually read about half of the novels and stories, and definitely have an opinion. I suddenly feel relevant and enabled.
THE REV REKS BEK ON BURKAS
WTF? I am completely unable to parse that for any value of "sense", and I know it's correct, I checked it on several different posters when I copied it down. Mad props for games with assonance and alliteration, but zero points when they lead to the complete obliteration of actual meaning. Searching on any of those terms or any terms likely to be abbreviated thusly reveals absolutely no news stories to which it could possibly be referring. Is there some Afrikaans key I'm missing? Yours, confused.
Other than linguistic confusion, I got nuttin' today, and shall, as is traditional, fill the gap with linkery. This is Jonathan Lethem being sane, dignified and eloquent on the universality of literary borrowing and the stupidity of draconine copyright laws, which is particularly entertaining given the current fanfic fandom furore (see, I too can alliterate!) over Diana Gabaldon's anti-fic hissy fit.
And this is the membership sign-up form for AussieCon, which is this year's WorldCon and thus the site of the Hugo voting process. If you sign up as an associate member you are entitled to download the entire raft of Hugo nominees - novels, short stories, graphic works et al - in e-form, because you're also entitled to vote in the Hugos from a distance, owing to the marvel of the modern Internet. This costs AU$70, and I just did it, thus bluing my entire month's book-buying budget in one fell swoop. However, since this nets me five novels, five non-fiction books (including Farah Mendlesohn's new one on Joanna Russ, squeee!), about 20-30 short stories, several graphic novels and a whole bunch of other stuff, I am significantly not complaining. Also, I get to vote in the Hugos. This has never felt like a real possibility before: by definition, South African science fiction fans are pretty much marginalised from the con scene. I've usually read about half of the novels and stories, and definitely have an opinion. I suddenly feel relevant and enabled.
