I just want to point out that it is extreamly easy to misread the topic of this thread as "dioreahh house". It really brings up a totally different image then is intended.
Well, when I got to september 18th, and still had no idea why it was called dionaea, I wiki'd the word. I found something clarifying, but I would advise reading the emails to end before clicking the link, as it is quite clearly a <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game' target='_blank'>spoiler.</a>
Indeed it is a fake, but it kinda spoils the fun if you read it with that assumption.
<a href='http://www.dionaea-house.com/afterword.htm' target='_blank'>Here</a>'s some more information about the subject.
And by the way, there's this wonderful thing called a <b>dictionary</b>, and in my copy of the Oxford American Dictionary it is spelled <b>diarrhea</b>. So just look it up before you embarass yourself.
That was actually a pretty good read, i liked the transition of different media (SMS and email) and the small number of different writing styles entirely.
<!--QuoteBegin-RuBy+Mar 10 2005, 05:32 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RuBy @ Mar 10 2005, 05:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Indeed it is a fake, but it kinda spoils the fun if you read it with that assumption.
<a href='http://www.dionaea-house.com/afterword.htm' target='_blank'>Here</a>'s some more information about the subject.
And by the way, there's this wonderful thing called a <b>dictionary</b>, and in my copy of the Oxford American Dictionary it is spelled <b>diarrhea</b>. So just look it up before you embarass yourself.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> I was trying NOT to reveal that it's fake in the wording of my post. That's why I called the link a spoiler, too.
And sorry to interrupt your gloating (by now gloating myself), but if your Oxford American Dictionary was as comprehensive and cool as my Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English (TM, +4, of the Leetness, Double Damage to Goblinoids, Incurs Blindness to Troglodytes, etc. etc.), you'd know that diarrhea is the american version, while diarrhoea is the english version. <insert posturing about how the english were the ones to first speak the language and such>
<!--QuoteBegin-RuBy+Mar 10 2005, 05:32 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RuBy @ Mar 10 2005, 05:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Indeed it is a fake, but it kinda spoils the fun if you read it with that assumption.
<a href='http://www.dionaea-house.com/afterword.htm' target='_blank'>Here</a>'s some more information about the subject.
And by the way, there's this wonderful thing called a <b>dictionary</b>, and in my copy of the Oxford <span style='font-size:30pt;line-height:100%'>American</span> Dictionary it is spelled <b>diarrhea</b>. So just look it up before you embarass yourself.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> please allow me to point out the fatal flaw in your logic Oxford is in England anyway, so quite how you have an Oxford American Dictionary, i don't know.
Sorry to disappoint you, razor, but there actually is such a thing as the <a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/019511227X/103-1792198-4621466' target='_blank'>Oxford American Dictionary.</a>
Can't we focus on how he spelled 'embarrass' wrong instead of whether or not there exists an Oxford within the boundaries of the United States and not on whether English-people use too many vowels?
On the actual topic: I got bored reading that bland first page. Maybe I'm coming down with AADD or it was how slow my internet is deciding to go or it was just boring to me.
<!--QuoteBegin-lolfighter+Mar 10 2005, 09:21 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (lolfighter @ Mar 10 2005, 09:21 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Sorry to disappoint you, razor, but there actually is such a thing as the <a href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/019511227X/103-1792198-4621466' target='_blank'>Oxford American Dictionary.</a> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> you still lose!
Good god, I am FRENCH. You should be amazed that I am able to spell at all, regardless of the fact that it is American English rather than English English.
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"diarrhea".
Summat about....death and......e-mails......and exploring......and possibly the plot twist where the e-mailer is the killer,or whatever.
Nicely done though. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<a href='http://www.dionaea-house.com/afterword.htm' target='_blank'>Here</a>'s some more information about the subject.
And by the way, there's this wonderful thing called a <b>dictionary</b>, and in my copy of the Oxford American Dictionary it is spelled <b>diarrhea</b>. So just look it up before you embarass yourself.
<a href='http://www.dionaea-house.com/afterword.htm' target='_blank'>Here</a>'s some more information about the subject.
And by the way, there's this wonderful thing called a <b>dictionary</b>, and in my copy of the Oxford American Dictionary it is spelled <b>diarrhea</b>. So just look it up before you embarass yourself.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I was trying NOT to reveal that it's fake in the wording of my post. That's why I called the link a spoiler, too.
And sorry to interrupt your gloating (by now gloating myself), but if your Oxford American Dictionary was as comprehensive and cool as my Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English (TM, +4, of the Leetness, Double Damage to Goblinoids, Incurs Blindness to Troglodytes, etc. etc.), you'd know that diarrhea is the american version, while diarrhoea is the english version. <insert posturing about how the english were the ones to first speak the language and such>
<a href='http://www.dionaea-house.com/afterword.htm' target='_blank'>Here</a>'s some more information about the subject.
And by the way, there's this wonderful thing called a <b>dictionary</b>, and in my copy of the Oxford <span style='font-size:30pt;line-height:100%'>American</span> Dictionary it is spelled <b>diarrhea</b>. So just look it up before you embarass yourself.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
please allow me to point out the fatal flaw in your logic
Oxford is in England anyway, so quite how you have an Oxford American Dictionary, i don't know.
On the actual topic: I got bored reading that bland first page. Maybe I'm coming down with AADD or it was how slow my internet is deciding to go or it was just boring to me.
[When I first saw it I thought it said dioceses.]
you still lose!
nice story though
Now can we just get back to the subject at hand?
...I'm Canadian! I can say that!