style guide

Guidelines partly unfollowed, here as a reference. You are welcome to find it useful.



Part I - Practice

dates

Dates are to be listed in the format of: 'DD of M, YYYY.' Accompany with 'CE' or 'BCE' as appropriate. Add the Imladris reckoning date with the format of: 'Weekday DD, Month.'

Example: 22nd of October, 2025 CE (Gregorian) | Orgilion 53, Firith (Imladris reckoning).

hashtags

Use camel case, #LikeSo.

hedge words

As Xanthe Tynehoorn said: Hedge words (“kind of”, “a little”, “somewhat”, “rather”) are the weeds that slip in and infect perfectly good texts.

language integrity & translation

➸ Do not italicise words to indicate their 'foreignness.' See poem 'Kupu rere kē' by Alice Te Punga Somerville, in the book Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised.

➸ Proper nouns should not be presented in unneccessary English forms. Ex: Köln, not Cologne.

➸ Provide both transliteration and original text when appropriate/relevant.

other

As George Orwell said (though I take issue with the semantics), 'Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.'



Part II - Theory

theories of quantum

As described by John Gribbin. Used by me in concert.

One. The universe does not exist unless you look at it.
Two. Particles are pushed around by an invisible wave, but the particles have no influence on the wave.
Three. Everything that could possibly happen does, in an array of parallel realities.
Four. Everything that could possibly happen already has happened, and we only noticed part of it.
Five. Everything influences everything else instantly, as if space did not exist.
Six. The future influences the past.


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