[LMB] (news& chat) TSK #3 update

[KATIE CLAPHAM]

I rather doubt that the average reader will pick up any sordid sexual connotations from "green".  There are a lot of uses of "green world", (It reminds me of the song "God Lives on Terra" by Julia Ecklar), and gives a sense of a healthy environment (unless one used a different adjective -- green can be sickly too) .  
 
I'd tend against "Wide Green World" because it feels a bit over general and overused-- not the phrase itself but its variants: wide world, green world, green earth, etc.  It does not seem specific enough or rich enough to describe the lovely textures and ideas in the SK world.
my 2 cents.



> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 04:08:00 -0400> From: paal at gis.net> To: lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk> Subject: Re: [LMB] (news& chat) TSK #3 update> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Phil Boswell" <phil.boswell at gmail.com>> > > > On 11/07/07, paal at gis.net <paal at gis.net> wrote:> > [snip]> >> I still majorly dislike "The Wide Green World." One of the contributing> >> factors, look up "green" in the Dictionary of Slang, it has a LOT of> >> sordid sexual situation connotations!> >> > I'm going to have to ask for some references for that, I'm coming up> > The references are in a printed book Dictionary of Slang which some > discount/remainder mail order bookseller used to sell decades ago.> > > completely blank. I looked in various online dictionaries and found> > nothing of the sort.> > -- > Lois-Bujold mailing list> Lois-Bujold at lists.herald.co.uk> http://lists.herald.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lois-bujold