Talk:Monstrous Regiment (novel)

message: Are there really "many [people who] believe Duchess Annagovia (referred to throughout the book as 'The Duchess') being the spiritual and 'real' leader of Borogravia could be interpreted as a reference to Ms Aung San Suu Kyi"? 
It seems a rather strained interpretation to me. 
—wwoods 18:13, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical/topical references 

message: It should be shorter, a lot shorter. Eldestone 10:37, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, but the problem is what to remove.Lifeisagame247 17:56, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I just unshipped 10kb from this formerly 14kb article by reverting the plot summary to a version from an older revision .  It lacks a little detail but is preferable to the former sprawling monster. --Tony Sidaway 19:54, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Summary

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:03, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you can't figure out the fair use claim, you aren't doing a very good job. Wouldn't it be simpler to put the template you want on book covers instead of nominating them for deletion? Some poor admin is going to look at all the images you tag and groan "Oh no, not another BetacommandBot-tagged image", or probably more likely, delete it without engaging any brain cells.-gadfium 00:51, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Monstrous regiment.jpg

message: As per something I saw somewhere, there's a difference between the UK and US editions of the book: specifically, at the end of the Jackrum reveal scene, the phrase "Around him, the kitchen worked" is, in the US version, "Around her, the kitchen worked". This would definitely be something to include in the article iff we can get a reliable source for it. Anyone? DS (talk) 01:21, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: A quick Google did turn up "Around her..." in what appeared to be a copy of a US-targeted HarperCollins e-book. I can confirm that in my version of the book (purchased in the UK) the bit reads: "Jackrum had turned her chair to the fire, and had settled back. Around him, the kitchen worked." Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find anything to corroborate the story, nor (as I would like in an ideal world) anything to discuss or justify the change. I do know the US editions tend to re-edit the books, largely to Americanise the spelling and occasionally to rework some British idioms; the most plain and forgiving explanation is that a US editor noticed the mismatched pronoun and assumed it was an error. – The Millionth One  (talk) (contribs) 06:15, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronoun difference? 

message: Sorry, but this " AI " - that tries to translate your articles into german is a rather .. . mess :
Now Sir TP's writings and especially (many of the) titles of his books are REAL tricky to anyone (even people who are quite "native speakers" in both languages. 
But in this case the german title is a gem :
 "Weiberregiment" ( i.e. : a state, when men or communities being ordered or even pushed around by women - not a military term, even if "Regiment" was used by historical armed forces in Prussia, Austria and so on ) really  matches the "monstrous" thing !
=>  try to integrate this fact in the german translation of the page ?$ 46.114.219.0 (talk) 13:25, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation