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silverflight8) wrote2009-11-02 05:30 pm
silverflight8) wrote2009-11-02 05:30 pm
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The curse of the English language--Homonyms
Maybe this is YMMV.
I was reading a (really) good fic about GWTW and the first chapter was great. So I was all happy, wondering how the author would resolve the problem (it was a really good AU fic, too).
And then I hit the second chapter. And it's full of--not precisely misspellings, but they've inserted the wrong word. It sounds the same, but it means totally different meanings, and it's not just one mistake--almost every sentence has one. The characterization has gone all weird--it suddenly seems wooden. And while that isn't really a big, evil mistake, it sort of sends the message that you don't care too much about your work, and so on. And so, I'm sorry, dear author, but I will not be reading the rest of your fic and commenting. It just sounds like you wrote it all in a rush and didn't bother to polish it. Spell check will not get rid those mistakes!
Now, the irony would be if I misspelled something here.
I was reading a (really) good fic about GWTW and the first chapter was great. So I was all happy, wondering how the author would resolve the problem (it was a really good AU fic, too).
And then I hit the second chapter. And it's full of--not precisely misspellings, but they've inserted the wrong word. It sounds the same, but it means totally different meanings, and it's not just one mistake--almost every sentence has one. The characterization has gone all weird--it suddenly seems wooden. And while that isn't really a big, evil mistake, it sort of sends the message that you don't care too much about your work, and so on. And so, I'm sorry, dear author, but I will not be reading the rest of your fic and commenting. It just sounds like you wrote it all in a rush and didn't bother to polish it. Spell check will not get rid those mistakes!
Now, the irony would be if I misspelled something here.