What's your pet peeve?
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snowy ciara
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Spelling and punctuation..
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Grrrrrrr... I can handle typos, lord knows I make a ton of them. I can handle a misplaced apostrophe or two. Punctuation can be adjusted. But here's what really really makes me nuts. I'm editing a story for someone (on another site, non erotic) this person cannot decide if they're using UK style punctuation or American style punctuation. In the case of punctuation, it's still not a big deal; the differences are slight, and I wouldn't even have noticed if the spelling hadn't been making me nuts! People, people, people; whatever style you choose, BE FUCKING CONSISTENT!! I really don't care if you use tire or tyre, or colour or color, or valor or valour, but fergawdalmighty's sake PICK ONE. I don't want to read about the man changing a flat tire, using the spare tyre he took out of the boot, and putting the flat back in the trunk! A man can drive a semi, or a lorry, but unless he has a clone in York and New York, he can't be doing both! Because a semi might be in the UK (though I've never seen them referred to as such) but I've never seen a lorry this side of the Atlantic.
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Grrrrrrr... I can handle typos, lord knows I make a ton of them. I can handle a misplaced apostrophe or two. Punctuation can be adjusted. But here's what really really makes me nuts. I'm editing a story for someone (on another site, non erotic) this person cannot decide if they're using UK style punctuation or American style punctuation. In the case of punctuation, it's still not a big deal; the differences are slight, and I wouldn't even have noticed if the spelling hadn't been making me nuts! People, people, people; whatever style you choose, BE FUCKING CONSISTENT!! I really don't care if you use tire or tyre, or colour or color, or valor or valour, but fergawdalmighty's sake PICK ONE. I don't want to read about the man changing a flat tire, using the spare tyre he took out of the boot, and putting the flat back in the trunk! A man can drive a semi, or a lorry, but unless he has a clone in York and New York, he can't be doing both! Because a semi might be in the UK (though I've never seen them referred to as such) but I've never seen a lorry this side of the Atlantic.
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snowy ciara
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Re: Re: Spelling and punctuation..
Thanks for the
.. and thanks for whomever started this thread! I got that off my chest before I sent it back to the guy. I didn't even finish it. I just gave him a polite note, telling him that the premise is good, the story appears to be pretty good so far, but it's really not ready to be reviewed and edited yet. I'm one of the last editors before posting on this site; while we do look for obvious errors, primarily, we're looking at story arcs and illegal use of stock characters (it's a shared universe thing, sort of like C. J. Cherryh's Merovingen nights premise) and timeline/storyline issues. I couldn't get through the spelling to look at that stuff. I figured, since he's going to have to tighten that stuff up before it's posted anyway, I might as well have him do it now, rather than give myself a headache reading it.
RJMasters said:I laughed until it hurt when I saw this phrase...shakes head I feel your pain.
Thanks for the
.. and thanks for whomever started this thread! I got that off my chest before I sent it back to the guy. I didn't even finish it. I just gave him a polite note, telling him that the premise is good, the story appears to be pretty good so far, but it's really not ready to be reviewed and edited yet. I'm one of the last editors before posting on this site; while we do look for obvious errors, primarily, we're looking at story arcs and illegal use of stock characters (it's a shared universe thing, sort of like C. J. Cherryh's Merovingen nights premise) and timeline/storyline issues. I couldn't get through the spelling to look at that stuff. I figured, since he's going to have to tighten that stuff up before it's posted anyway, I might as well have him do it now, rather than give myself a headache reading it.
