The L Word - Season 1. Set in West Hollywood, the series features Bette Porter (played by Jennifer Beals) and Tina Kennard (Laurel Holloman), who have been a couple for seven years and want to have a child. Their next-door neighbor, Tim Haspel (Eric Mabius), faces a major life change when his girlfriend, Jenny Schecter (Mia Kirshner), moves in with him after she graduates from college in the Midwest. Jenny's alter-ego Sarah Shuster's name is a play upon Zarathustra, a frequently-referenced character of Nie ...

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Some acronyms have attained the status of words. Many are company names that were either deliberately created for marketing reasons or have morphed from true acronyms over time, such as Compaq, a computer company; Qantas, an Australian airline; and Nasdaq, the US electronic stock market. Others are organizations, such as Nato, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (spelled with all capital letters in the U.S.). Other examples include qwerty – the name of the most common keyboard layout, WYSIWYG, pronounced 'Wizzyw ...

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James Joyce, known for his distinctive style, made up nine 100- and one 101-letter long words in his novel Finnegans Wake, the most famous of which is Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk. Appearing on the first page, it allegedly is the symbolic thunderclap representing the fall of Adam and Eve. As this word appears nowhere else except in reference to this passage, it is generally not accepted as a "real" word. Sylvia Plath made mention to that word in her semi-autob ...

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Characteristics of fantasy fiction and its many overlapping sub-genres are the subjects of debate among some fans and writers. A critical characteristic is that the world features some difference from Earth that is not a result of science or technology, but rather the result of magic or other anomalous phenomena. But, again, definitions and opinions on the proper classification differ. As a genre, fantasy is both associated and contrasted with science fiction and horror fiction. All three genres feature elements of the f ...

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Characteristics of fantasy fiction and its many overlapping sub-genres are the subjects of debate among some fans and writers. A critical characteristic is that the world features some difference from Earth that is not a result of science or technology, but rather the result of magic or other anomalous phenomena. But, again, definitions and opinions on the proper classification differ. As a genre, fantasy is both associated and contrasted with science fiction and horror fiction. All three genres feature elements of the f ...

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Fantasy is a popular genre, having found a home for itself in almost every medium. While fantasy art and fantasy films have been hugely successful, it is fantasy literature which has always been the most expansive and diverse. Fantasy role-playing games cross several different media. The 'pen & paper' role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons was the first and is arguably the most successful and influential, though the science fantasy role-playing game series Final Fantasy has been an icon of the video-role-playing game genre. Role ...

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Fantasy is a popular genre, having found a home for itself in almost every medium. While fantasy art and fantasy films have been hugely successful, it is fantasy literature which has always been the most expansive and diverse. Fantasy role-playing games cross several different media. The 'pen & paper' role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons was the first and is arguably the most successful and influential, though the science fantasy role-playing game series Final Fantasy has been an icon of the video-role-playing game genre. Role ...

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Though the genre in its modern sense is less than two centuries old, its antecedents have a long and distinguished history. Beginning perhaps with the Epic of Gilgamesh and the earliest written documents known to humankind, elements that would eventually come to define fantasy and its various subgenres have been a part of some of the grandest and most celebrated works in all of history. From The Odyssey to Beowulf, from Arthurian Legend and medieval romance to the epic Divine Comedy, in every known culture ...

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Though the genre in its modern sense is less than two centuries old, its antecedents have a long and distinguished history. Beginning perhaps with the Epic of Gilgamesh and the earliest written documents known to humankind, elements that would eventually come to define fantasy and its various subgenres have been a part of some of the grandest and most celebrated works in all of history. From The Odyssey to Beowulf, from Arthurian Legend and medieval romance to the epic Divine Comedy, in every known culture ...

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WORD MAGIC (or MAGICAL SENTENCES.)

Magical words or phrases are social techniques that double as talismans or ritualistic paraphernalia and serve as short-cuts to reality alteration. They take many forms, some of which are the following:

Setting-Up Exercises -- Suggest that something of moment is afoot:  "I swear by the Bolts of Besqul..." or "I externalize thee..."

Magical Formulae -- Serve as exhortations in the guise of threats:  "Those who do not follow will be left behind!" or "Who stabbeth me, bleedeth  himself!"

Special Effects -- Used to induce the cooperation of the social  environment: "Burn, Fire Perpetua!"

Consensus Modifiers -- Rework consensus through overt assault on the  status quo or through the introduction of novelty: "For it is written but no  longer true..." Also open (and unconventional) evangelism eventually has an  impact: "May Thantifaxath grant!"

Power Implementation -- Such formulae are positive, reinforcing and  tied in creatively to reality because once uttered, they immediately achieve  their ends: "You are herewith ordered to report to ..." In magic, power  implementations are generally surreptitious and operate in the world with  infinite subtlety. Statements such as, "Be thou clean O leper!" are extremely  bold (and rare). However, the most irresistible overt usage is the curse. A  curse propels the victim's ego into a horrible locale or state of being that  he already secretly fears ("May your body house maggots in Hell!" or "You are  a Toad!"). The ego is bound to languish in the wake of the curse, if it is  successful. And when the self desiccates, the body quickly follows. That's why  insults generate violence. The injured psyche needs to re-establish its loss  of position.

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Though usually just referred to as "Word document format", there are actually a number of different file formats that Microsoft have used over the years. For example, Word 2003 introduced an XML-based Word format. It is possible for a user to write a plug-in to allow Word to understand any file format. When Microsoft was not the market leader and Word Perfect was, an SDK was developed to allow advanced users to give support to other formats. This SDK is called the WinWord Converter SDK and is still available at th ...

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A popular joke answer to the "longest word" question is the word smiles, credited as the longest word because there is a mile between each s. Of course, by this reckoning the word beleaguered, which contains a league, is even longer. A popular playground joke in Britain states that the longest word in the English language is elastic because it will always stretch. According to some, the longest word is the word after ...

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The fact that love is literally a four-letter word has been used in several popular songs, including "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word" written by Bob Dylan and performed by Joan Baez, and "Four Letter Word" written by Ricky and Marty Wilde and performed by Kim Wilde. A television show called Love is a Four-Letter Word was produced by ABC in Australia. The band Cake also made a play on words in their song "Friend is a Four Letter Word", while The Blood Brothers took their prose in a different direction with their song "Lo ...

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All tracks written by David Jones, Sam Harvey, Ben Winton, Lee Irons, and Andy Hobson. "Just Like TV" - 4:42 "Talkshow" - 3:06 "Only Human" - 3:30 "All Mapped Out" - 3:01 "Arms Around Me" - 4:21 "Lump In My Throat" - 3:20 "Don't Come Any Closer" - 3:28 "Changing Pilots" - 3:57 "Be My Enemy" - 3:24 "Time" - 4:25 "Dirty Words" - 3:26 Dirty Words - Bonus tracks. "City Blurs Your Eyes" (Ja ...

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English is a language which permits the legitimate extension of existing words to serve new purposes by the addition of prefixes and suffixes. This is sometimes referred to as agglutinative construction. This process can create arbitrarily long words: for example, the prefixes pseudo- (false, spurious) and anti- (against, opposed to) can be added as many times as desired. Multiple observers have played on this in noting that a word like anti-aircraft (pertaining to the defense against aircraft) is easily extended to a ...

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