I guess "in extremis" is valid if you speak Latin, or know what
it means, but I'm not so sure it's part of common usage. Anyone
has the right to use it, but it seems a tad artificial, not that it
makes a difference.

BTW, what does in extremis mean? I've never heard it. If you
do decide to answer that, please do it privately. Though I doubt
enough of us know it to spam the FFML (or maybe I've read
different things than everyone).

This actually has nothing to do with the C&C or anything, but I
was thinking about it. We always assume these characters are
speaking Japanese in fics, as we write in English. Then we use
latin phrases (the least common like "in extremis" and the most
like "et cetera"), and some authors even through in Japanese
phrases in the mix, too. If a historian from the future ever goes
back and looks at these things (wouldn't that be the day), I can
only wonder what they would think seeing the mix of languages
all artificially cemented together as most authors have done. Oh
well, it's better than having to read fanfics where the Japanese
is written entirely in Japanese, which is only slightly worse than
heavy Japanese usage in fanfics, IMHO.

Ugh, I'm just wasting time before bed--even if you disagree
about Japanese usage in fics, please don't bother debating it.
Use it if it please you. Or not. That's all.

Ryan Erik
http://www.geocities.com/ryanerik99

----- Original Message -----
From: "The Wanderer" <inverseparadox@comcast.net>
To: "FFML" <ffml@anifics.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 5:32 PM
Subject: [FFML] Re: [C&C] [Fanfic][Ranma][First draft, incomplete] Hell on
earth, prologue

Don't have time to do a proper C&C, but...

Ryan Erik wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sebastian Palm" <winchester@telia.com>

defending yourself gets the teachers on your case. Which, in extremis,

extremis isn't a word...try: "In those most extreme circumstance, it
involves
switching schools, which takes us to the present situation."

Actually, the phrase "in extremis" (which should properly be italicized,
but that's difficult in straight ASCII text) is perfectly valid; I
believe it comes from the Latin, and it's entirely correct to use in
this circumstance.

--
       The Wanderer

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