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themostepotenteOkay, folks...
Is it so much to ask to reference the correct spellings of proper names from either the books or the Lexicon?
In the past month, I have ran across THREE fics where a character's name was spelled incorrectly. Now, I know that we are all human and make mistakes, but a typo that's skirted past weary eyes is something all together entirely different from misspelling oh say, G-R-I-F-E-N-D-O-R. *cues her audience to cringe*
The first fic I encountered was a Lucius/Draco with a brief mention of Walden Macnair. Macnair was spelled M-C-N-A-I-R. Apparently the 'a' went AWOL. And funny, nobody that reviewed the fic caught this.
Oh-kay, moving right the fuck along, the next fic I encountered was a Snape/Bellatrix. Now all of you Rodolphus Lestrange fans are going to be plucking your eyeballs out over this. Rodolphus's name was spelled not once, not twice, but THREE different ways -- in ONE fic. Rudolphus, Rodulphus, and Rodolphus.
I have issues with the word 'cinnamon.' I am forever looking this bitch up. For some odd reason, I can never remember how to spell it. Two 'n's? Two 'm's? But to spell it both ways and think, well, one way must be right...is just trifling. So I use my handy dandy online dictionary. It's just that simple.
The last fic I ran across was by far the WORST. How the fuck do you misspell Severus? No shit, I found a fic where he was referred to as Saverus. Saverus? What the FUCK is that? Doesn't that have a bit of a Vulcanesque ring to it? I'm reading this story for shits and giggles and picturing Snape with pointy ears and arched eyebrows.
Pon Farr? Live Long and Prosper? *headdesk*
Any stories you'd care to share? Leave 'em here!
--Penny
Is it so much to ask to reference the correct spellings of proper names from either the books or the Lexicon?
In the past month, I have ran across THREE fics where a character's name was spelled incorrectly. Now, I know that we are all human and make mistakes, but a typo that's skirted past weary eyes is something all together entirely different from misspelling oh say, G-R-I-F-E-N-D-O-R. *cues her audience to cringe*
The first fic I encountered was a Lucius/Draco with a brief mention of Walden Macnair. Macnair was spelled M-C-N-A-I-R. Apparently the 'a' went AWOL. And funny, nobody that reviewed the fic caught this.
Oh-kay, moving right the fuck along, the next fic I encountered was a Snape/Bellatrix. Now all of you Rodolphus Lestrange fans are going to be plucking your eyeballs out over this. Rodolphus's name was spelled not once, not twice, but THREE different ways -- in ONE fic. Rudolphus, Rodulphus, and Rodolphus.
I have issues with the word 'cinnamon.' I am forever looking this bitch up. For some odd reason, I can never remember how to spell it. Two 'n's? Two 'm's? But to spell it both ways and think, well, one way must be right...is just trifling. So I use my handy dandy online dictionary. It's just that simple.
The last fic I ran across was by far the WORST. How the fuck do you misspell Severus? No shit, I found a fic where he was referred to as Saverus. Saverus? What the FUCK is that? Doesn't that have a bit of a Vulcanesque ring to it? I'm reading this story for shits and giggles and picturing Snape with pointy ears and arched eyebrows.
Pon Farr? Live Long and Prosper? *headdesk*
Any stories you'd care to share? Leave 'em here!
--Penny
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Date: 2004-12-29 05:09 pm (UTC)*giggles*
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Date: 2004-12-29 05:10 pm (UTC)*hides*
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Date: 2004-12-29 05:14 pm (UTC)Not Lucious.
And don't shoot back at me that it's because he is, because the word you think you're using there is 'luscious', with another 's'.
Thank you.
And Saverus? Rihannsu.
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Date: 2004-12-29 05:16 pm (UTC)Was this post amusing, Callie?
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Date: 2004-12-29 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-29 05:18 pm (UTC)Rihannsu, eh? Methinks you've read Diane Duane :-)
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Date: 2004-12-29 05:19 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-12-29 05:19 pm (UTC)*chokes*
*is dead*
Ie, ie!
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Date: 2004-12-29 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-29 05:21 pm (UTC)Should be required reading, methinks. (me also has loud opinions on mis-spellings, but cannot locate the worst offenders as they have been wiped from my memory to save on storage space. Damnit.)
Wait. I have it. Hermione - admittedly a tricky name - misspelled sixty-eight different ways. You have one minute. And.... go!
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Date: 2004-12-29 05:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-29 05:22 pm (UTC)I sometimes offer to beta for complete strangers who show promise, because, after all, someone took pity on me once and took a chance. But recently I really regretted it. Here are just SOME of the gems in this fic that had my buttocks clenching and me stuffing a hankie in my mouth to stop myself screaming with laughter. The comments in brackets are mine)
"Harry had a tick up his sleeve" (Ouch!)
"Dark arrived and we set out in Buckbeak" (Vrooom!!!)
"your lips tickled the back of my neck with their gentile caresses" ( Oy Vey!)
"I felt myself becoming swiftly more aroused by your tender administrations. " (Cant be the Bush administrations?)
"Kisses were trialed in offering down your front" ( well, got to try them out...)
"nipping at my nipples" (and presumably fingering my fingers and cocking my cock)
"biting softly on my lower lip as you used your hand to start the chain reaction to the top" (? is his top lip about to come?)
"but only you and Buckbeak, hunting for lizards, herd me" (Get along there! Yah!)
"The setting was dismal. " (tell me about it)
"In one hand toy held a box, which you opened before me, a silver band glinted in the firelight. I raised my head to look into your eyes, and I could barely contain my mounting joy. You voice, when you spoke, sounded miles away.
"Remus, will you marry me?" (BLEUGHK!!!!!!!)
"How I had wanted to hear that from your deep vocals" (How I want to die)
On a personal note. I can't spell McGonnagall. See?
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Date: 2004-12-29 05:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-29 05:23 pm (UTC)OK, not funny, I nearly caused myself an injury trying to not choke on my clementines. Mmmmm, clementine-y goodness.
In other news, I read a cross-over once that had Spock/Snape. As I recall, 'twas rather cool and groovy.
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Date: 2004-12-29 05:26 pm (UTC)Would you pretty please with Lucius on top turn on Yahoo a moment?
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Date: 2004-12-29 05:28 pm (UTC)I thought that they were re-issuing them to fit in with the new random half-books she's been writing, 'Honour Blade and 'SwordHunt' (and I am not impressed with this whole 'write half a book then make them wait yearsfor the rest' malarky)? Or are they taking their own sweet time about it?
Also? What's with the endless cross-overs of theme and time and who cares? I'm not spending £XXX on a series that doesn't care about character building, just ... verisimilitude and the 'cool' factor.
Anyway.
Yes.
Spelling.
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Date: 2004-12-29 05:28 pm (UTC)Snape can't possibly be a Vulcan, he's constantly losing his shit.
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Date: 2004-12-29 05:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-29 05:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-29 05:31 pm (UTC)Ah, my inner geek betrayed me! (My outer geek is shopping)
Snape can't possibly be a Vulcan, he's constantly losing his shit.
*placid look* Two words:
Pre-Reformation.
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Date: 2004-12-29 05:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-29 05:31 pm (UTC)