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How many of you have read fics, be they fan-fiction or original, and thought, "Dude, seriously, you need to actually use the spell-check and grammar-check functions on your computer!!"
*stops to count hands*
Okay, so... how many of you have read fics, be they fan-fiction or original, and realized that they not only did use spell-check and grammar-check, but... they either didn't have enough background to choose the appropriate words, or... just picked at random, and still bombed?
*nods as she counts the hands*
Yeah. Me, too. And you know what? It's not any less jarring, is it? You just can't win.
*laughs ruefully and returns to keeping kids from killing each other/blowing up the house/ending life as we know it on Earth*
*stops to count hands*
Okay, so... how many of you have read fics, be they fan-fiction or original, and realized that they not only did use spell-check and grammar-check, but... they either didn't have enough background to choose the appropriate words, or... just picked at random, and still bombed?
*nods as she counts the hands*
Yeah. Me, too. And you know what? It's not any less jarring, is it? You just can't win.
*laughs ruefully and returns to keeping kids from killing each other/blowing up the house/ending life as we know it on Earth*