Talk:Arsenal FC match reports
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Is this a story, or a sports column? I don't understand. --Ex Machina 23:50, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Don't know
Don't know, but I'll just assume it's a script. (That's why it's hard to vandalize this site- we can change anything into fiction)Wow, look at the difference of 5000+ Yun to current Yun. That's what his future self thinks about this one: "A warning to vandals--anything, even sports, can be turned into 'short stories'". Only time will tell what the future holds. --Nonimportant 01:51, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
The way I see it, one of the benefits of using a site like this is to see if we can create a story we wouldn't have come up with ourselves. This wasn't a real story, who wants to see if we can make it one? It's not like we can make it worse. user:Flamingalah 22:30, 16th October 2007 (UTC)
I agree. However, it'll be kind of hard to do. And I hope Nonimportant doesn't think there's something very wrong with developing a new way of looking at certain types of works. 21:29, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
It'll hard to do but not nearly as much than if more than one person do it. I'm kinda stretched 'round here, but why not you, Yun? It's not like you're busy at Ascension. Or maybe Serprex or Fythring or Nardek, the good thing about the wiki format is that anyone can edit, and that's the point, let's try to edit other people's stories, even if only to add a line (if it is incomplete) or to do orthographical correction. The wiki format is perfect for collaborative writing, so let's try to do some more of that! --Nonimportant 21:56, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
It will be hard to do - that's why it's interesting. I'm thinking something like a little domestic murder mystery that happens during the broadcast of a soccer match. The match report aspect gives it a nice "time marches on regardless" feel while something much more personal is happening alongside. Better ideas welcome...User:Flamingalah 10:33 17 October (UTC)
The fact that the match was on Valentines Day is a nice bit of luck.User:Flamingalah 15:50 Oct 17 2007 (UTC)
Yes,I enjoy colabs.However,as we saw with Ascension,it was hard enough keeping it strung with only 2.Though I must say,Nonimportant does a nice job at colabing(even if we forget about stuff around the 10KB mark...*goes to look at ZOMG!*) --Serprex
I...er...didn't forget it...I was only...you know...waiting for you to...oh, look at the time, gotta add something there. --Nonimportant 20:50, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Ooh - 2 stars! I'm gonna shoot for 3 by the end of the day...User:Flamingalah 11:03 18 October 2007 (UTC)
Oh, hadn't noticed that you were done. Lemme see... I like the way you put tidbits of the game during the story, not deleting what was written but still having a story. I liked the way you established him as a selfish bastard without saying so. And I kinda liked the way the story seems just like a picture of everyday life, with nothing special going on. However, let me just change the ending and you tell me if which one you like better (if you dislike it, you can delete it, dun worry). --Nonimportant 00:09, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Actually, I'll leave at that, I don't want to mess with it. Every little piece fits perfectly to tell a story that remains untold of great fires of passion that are now extinguished and love. I'll even give you a second opinion in the rating, only to encourage you to keep up the good work. --Nonimportant 00:25, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
How can this story "tell a story that remains untold"? I think you just contradicted yourself right there, Non. 00:42, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Pretend you're at an office, and one of your coworkers tells you: "Man! I just went to the boss' room and she was all over me and we...well...she told me not to tell ya, but you know what I mean?". There. He told you a story that remains untold. You have a vague idea of what he meant. --Nonimportant 00:51, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
He didn't tell me any story, though. 01:31, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Exactly. I was using figurative language. Paradox. Like Fernando Pessoa once said: "The Tejo is more beautiful than the river that runs by my village/ but the Tejo is not more beautiful than the river that runs by my village/ because the Tejo is not the river that runs by my village..." --Nonimportant 16:17, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
You mean you were lying? And that Fernando Pessoa guy, whose line you just posted above, has just made me decide that he's an idiot because lines 1 and 2 contradict and line 3 is irrelevant. Like a guy who doesn't know what else he could say, who has nothing better to say. 16:57, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
That's the genius of itUser:Serprex 17:03, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
No. An apparent paradox. By "Tell a story that remains untold" I meant "Giving enough hints about something so that you can understand what happened, but without telling the actual story", as you correctly assumed. But, really, which one sounds better? Also, about Pessoa, the Tejo is a really really really (really, really) famous Portuguese river, the first "beautiful" means something like "grand", and the second "beautiful" means something like "dear to me". It's all in the subtleties, dude. --Nonimportant 17:10, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
It's not really finished, I just haven't got back to it yet. If you want to improve it, go right ahead. Flamingalah 17:12, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
I see...if that is so, what do you intend to do with it? Maybe we could have flashbacks of their young days (this way the story can still fit the timespace of the game), how they becoming slowly more distant...you know, this kind of things. --Nonimportant 17:20, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
Oh so the Tejo thing is a mistranslation? All right... Kinda hard to see "beautiful" to mean "dear to me", though. I mean, something like:
"The Tejo is closer than the river that runs by my village/ but the Tejo is not closer than the river that runs by my village/ because the river that runs by my village runs by my village/ and the Tejo is not the river that runs by my village."
would make more sense, in English.
Here the first line is saying that the Tejo is closer, to the heart; the second, that it's further away geographically; the third implies that the river by the village is merely that; the fourth make the point less confusing.
17:27, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
No it's not a mistranslation, it's the name of a river! Though, admittedly, you guys call the Malvinas "Falklands" so I wouldn't be surprised if you changed that name too. *looks at wikipedia*, you guys call it the "Tagus", which is crazy, really, but now it should make sense. And of course "beautiful" can mean "dear to me"! Ever heard "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder"? --Nonimportant 17:45, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
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- Random spam incorporated into a story; however, it still runs like two separate stories. The work gives no pointers if its goal were to "leave parts to the imagination"....
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- The bulk of the story remains untold, but perhaps it is better like that, and there are enough hints through subtle character behaviour to make it easier to discover. The best "leaves too much to imagination" story I've seen for some time. Apart from that, is a nice picture of day-to-day life, naturalists and realists would love this....
