Two very minor peeves

[conuly]

1. If by "ghost" you mean "the spirit of a dead person" then ghosts don't live anywhere. If the book you're looking for has a girl and a ghost, then you can say the ghost dwells in her house, or resides in her house, or perhaps haunts her house. Or, I guess, since the ghost was there first, you can say that the girl discovered that she's living in the ghost's house.

2. Unless you are looking for a board book, it is very unlikely that the picture book you want is only 10 pages long, or only 12 pages long. People just don't want to buy books of 10 or 12 pages for their kids! Also, picture books typically come with page counts as multiples of 8. What you mean to say is that the picture book is somewhere between 24 and 48 pages long. In fact, most of them are exactly 32 pages long.

Comments

[marahmarie]

1. Wait, are you saying ghosts can't live anywhere so the hypothetical girl lives in the hypothetical ghost's house? So ghosts have property rights?

I almost hopped on to say you're contradicting yourself but after copying/pasting the most salient parts, realized you aren't.

2. um

Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I think of my houseghosts as living. They're not embodied anymore, but they aren't echoes either. They can interact with live people. We get along fine.

... but nobody else ever talks about that kind of situation, now that I think of it, so your description is probably more relevant for most needs.

[calimac]

Blind friends have told me not to worry about using the word "see" in regard to them. I imagine that if I knew any ghosts, they would similarly tell me not to worry about the word "live."

[conuly]

Okay, I wasn't necessarily saying ghosts have property rights, but it's a classic theme that they think they should, isn't it?

[spiffikins]

I interpreted it as "ghosts are not ALIVE, thus they cannot be said to be *living* anywhere"

[larryhammer]

1. Uh, good point. I should double-check my ghost poem translations to make sure I didn't do that.

[conuly]

I am really pedantic.

[marahmarie]

Yeah, I mean, the only contradiction is it isn't living but according to this interpretation apparently has property rights. Our future AI once it takes over, I suppose - lol

[marahmarie]

If they were that nice about it but I don't associate "ghosts" with "nice", fwiw.

[marahmarie]

I'm doubling down in realizing I can't read the minds of ghosts so don't know if they want or already have property rights. You're de facto saying they do.