would you like to have some barley and rice along with that?

Feb 10, 2010 20:42

It's a bit jarring when you're reading a very well written fic and find yourself stumbling across typos involving homophones. "Taught" instead of "taut" certainly made me blink, but I can brush off things like that, especially when the writing is good and the writer is not consistently misspelling the word -- you just miss some of those, sometimes ( Read more... )

language and writing, the red pen of doom

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auronlu February 10 2010, 15:48:31 UTC
Yuck.

I don't use a beta, and I don't use a spellchecker.

Yet "ryely" is still beyond my tolerance. Then again, I read a fic last night which described a desirable woman's breasts as "pulp" when "plush" or "plump" or some other squeezable term was meant.

The badfic is coming to eat our brains. RUN!

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cyrnelle February 10 2010, 17:02:08 UTC
Oh, I don't think it matters whether you use a beta or a spellchecker or not, I doubt it raises your tolerance levels -- bad spelling is bad spelling.

The thing is, the whole fic was pretty decent! Just . . . ryely. I. Am at lost at what to say to that.

Hmm pulpy. Maybe they over-squeezed it. XD *joins in the run from badfic*

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