Lord Orsam's Blog

[Kattrup]

David’s two ‘Howlcast’ articles are interesting.
Transcribing and publishing the content of my podcast is copyright infringement.

JM

I agree, they’re very interesting, as is the article explaining why he left Casebook.org.

Personally I doubt there’s copyright infringement, as the purpose is review and critique, so it would fall under the fair use clause which allows such.

[Sam Flynn]

As an aside, I note the use of that ugly almost-neologism "quadrilogy", which seems to have become popular in recent years due to film franchises and the like. There always was a perfectly good word to describe the next increment in a trilogy, and that word is "tetralogy".

Not a rant as such, it's just that "quadrilogy" is one of my pet peeves

[Mr. Poster]

I agree, they’re very interesting, as is the article explaining why he left Casebook.org.

Personally I doubt there’s copyright infringement, as the purpose is review and critique, so it would fall under the fair use clause which allows such.

Review and critique? Thats how what he gets up to is described as these days?

Pity he didnt decide to do something interesting and "review and critique" a certain feminist historians recent work....

P

[Gary Barnett]

As an aside, I note the use of that ugly almost-neologism "quadrilogy", which seems to have become popular in recent years due to film franchises and the like. There always was a perfectly good word to describe the next increment in a trilogy, and that word is "tetralogy".

Not a rant as such, it's just that "quadrilogy" is one of my pet peeves

But I thought you liked Wagner.😉

[Sam Flynn]

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Indeed, but - despite that cutting - the Ring is generally referred to among the cognoscenti as a tetralogy, and it was in connection with the Ring that I first encountered the term.

Looking into it, the word "quadrilogy" was coined in the 1860s but, being a bit of a nerd, I guess it bugs me that it mixes a Latin prefix with a Greek suffix.

[Gary Barnett]

Indeed, but - despite that cutting - the Ring is generally referred to among the cognoscenti as a tetralogy, and it was in connection with the Ring that I first encountered the term.

Looking into it, the word "quadrilogy" was coined in the 1860s but, being a bit of a nerd, I guess it bugs me that it mixes a Latin prefix with a Greek suffix.

Say no more (tapping my nose) the 19th century press weren’t ‘in with the in crowd’.

[Sam Flynn]

Say no more (tapping my nose) the 19th century press weren’t ‘in with the in crowd’.

Mayhap! My instincts seem to be borne out by Google: over 10,000 hits for "Wagner's tetralogy", but only 2 for "Wagner's quadrilogy".

[Robert Linford]

Howard once wrote a book on chemistry which he published in weekly instalments over the course of several years. He called it a titralogy.

[Gary Barnett]

Mayhap! My instincts seem to be borne out by Google: over 10,000 hits for "Wagner's tetralogy", but only 2 for "Wagner's quadrilogy".

I found far more than 2 examples from the mid-19thc.

Remind me, what is a neologism?

[Mr. Poster]

Interesting to note that the admin on the other site, judging by Orsams recollection of the event - or at least his portrayal of it.... noted that persistent positing of a question to a subject who displays absolutely no intention of ever answering it is tantamount to "harassment" (we all know that it is tedious).

Ive always concluded that the admin in question on Orsams blog was American and it would seem that the other person who reviews to answer persistent questions of late and calls persistent questioning harassment..is also somewhat American.

While bearing in mind that one can draw ones own conclusion as to why a person wont answer fairly put, legitimate but persistent questions....maybe its an Amercian thing to simply chalk the questioning up to being harassment?

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[Sam Flynn]

I found far more than 2 examples from the mid-19thc.

Excellent, but Wagner's Ring is far more usually referred to as a "tetralogy" by Wagnerites.... the same is as true in English as it is in German, Italian and French (Tetralogie/tetralogia/tétralogie respectively).

Remind me, what is a neologism?

I corrected myself earlier...

Looking into it, the word "quadrilogy" was coined in the 1860s

Besides, the word "tetralogy" has been around for much longer... at least the 1650s according to once source I found. It also doesn't generate a wavy red spellcheck line when I type it, unlike its more recent Latin/Greek hybrid equivalent.

[Guest]

I agree, they’re very interesting, as is the article explaining why he left Casebook.

Yes it is. He wonders if I had something to do with his thread being locked. I didn’t. He suggests a very close relationship between myself and Hawley simply because I interviewed him when his two books were published and again when the St. Louis probate records were discovered. And he imagines that I have a great influence over Ally Ryder and her Admin duties.
Not once have I been asked nor have I ever provided an opinion on how Ally should choose to run Casebook. I had nothing to do with his thread being locked and I wasn’t aware of his departure from Casebook until long after it happened.

I admit I didn’t read his whole blog entry on this topic, it’s very long and just a tad bit obsessive.

JM

[Michael Banks]

David’s two ‘Howlcast’ articles are interesting.
Transcribing and publishing the content of my podcast is copyright infringement.

JM

Apologies for being dense JM but do you mean that it would be an infringement to use parts of David’s article in your podcast? Couldn’t you just get David’s permission?

[Sam Flynn]

I admit I didn’t read his whole blog entry on this topic, it’s very long

Understatement. Not so much a b-log as a b-forest.

[Guest]

Apologies for being dense JM but do you mean that it would be an infringement to use parts of David’s article in your podcast? Couldn’t you just get David’s permission?

No, I'm saying that transcribing and publishing online 7,000 words spoken on Rippercast without my permission is copyright infringement.



JM