Ack

[yendi]

It's bad enough that I misspelled Allen Ginsberg's first name in my review of Move Under Ground last month.

But in writing this month's column (yeah, it's late, I know), I just realized that I'd consistently referred to one of the true greats of the last century as "Fritz Lieber."

At least I caught this one before sending it off.

Comments

[amokk]

My only dislike in reading you is that I am forced to realize that I'm not as well-read as I should be.

Who's Fritz and why should I know him? ;) (more amusing because lieber means "rather" in German.)

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

I thought it meant lover. Oh well. Actually his name was Leiber - German pronunciation puts the sound on the second letter in the sequence.

[yendi]

He's one of the great fantasy and horror authors of the last century. Best known for the Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser books, which are amongst the best fantasy ever published.

[lonesomenumber1]

"'I' before 'e' except after 'c'" dies hard. Especially when the name is pronounced "Lie-ber."

Silly Germans.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Yeah I know that headache. My last name is Lieder and it always bugged me to hear teachers pronounce my name as Li-der. It gets even worse when I discover that the Jews with the name (it's one of those names that's designated as a Jewish name - so even though I'm converting to Judaism I still get asked if I'm related to that family that made a fortune in the Minnesota garbage hauling business - I reply that I don't know but the only Jew I know with a Lieder in his family is schizophrenic like my grandfather so maybe - that tends to end that conversation) all spell their names as Leder or Lider (but pronounced Leeder) because of that whole Yiddish convention of spelling everything in Hebrew characters that leaves it transcribed into ENglish looking very silly.

Of course the worst part about this annoyance is that I can't even complain to loudly with all these Czechs and Poles walking around with names that don't even pretend to use vowels.

[lonesomenumber1]

"Wojciehowicz. You spell it just like it sounds!"

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

You are never going to be able to show your face in Lankhmar again.

[prodigaldax.livejournal.com]

You deleted your KoC account? Where'd you go?

[yendi]

I eventually got fed up with the game, as it penalized folks too much for daring to go to sleep at night. I may head back sometime in the next beta or two, depending on how the rules change.

(I actually didn't delete the account, but after a certain amount of time without logging in, they delete accounts automatically.)

[tablesaw]

Is there a reason someone can't just go and fix the spelling in the other article?

Go on with your bad logophile self

[sibylla.livejournal.com]

yendi, I love you. *smooch*

interesting side note

[stress-rash.livejournal.com]

Allen Ginsburg stayed at my parents' house when I was about 8years old. I drew a picture of him and he returned the favor. I still have that picture and my dad still has the tapes of his performance.