Grammatically speaking...

Sep 16, 2009 22:52

A handy article I came across ( Read more... )

writing, plagiarism

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smarmosaurus September 17 2009, 03:38:11 UTC
Haha. I think you covered a lot of my peeves:
-extremely bad grammar
-bad sex scenes (I recently read a story that described a woman's vagina as her "sexual lips"... the quality deteriorated from there)
-people who consistently mix up 'you're/your' and 'their/there/they're'
-characters whose personalities aren't consistent with the position they hold in society. So the street thug who speaks in the vernacular of a sixteen year old girl (hmm...) without having a reason for doing so; the vampire who's a thousand years old and has the emotional maturity of a sixteen year old girl (I'm seeing a pattern here...)
-characters that argue with themselves
-stories that have typos in the title
-almost everything in the manga section
-stories that have typos in the summaries
-'sugar high' thirteen year old humor
-high school stories in general
-rich kid stories in general
-vampire stories in general

I don't really read anything on FP anymore... haha.

I think the plagiarism has finally started to die down. There's a community called "fpwatchers" that I joined recently. They're pretty thorough when it comes to cracking down on plagiarism cases and I haven't received an update in a while which I am going to interpret as good news.

Some of my things got plagiarized, so I just took down the things I actually cared about--HS, my poems, et. al--and now I just post the typical cliched crap that would only *sort of* annoy me if some asshole decided to take it. Which is sad, you know, because it's the stuff I care about that I'd really like to get feedback on.

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writtenfp September 17 2009, 03:41:31 UTC
........... "sexual lips"???

D: D: D:

also, rich kid stories... totally agree.

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writtenfp September 17 2009, 07:23:48 UTC
....................................... MY EYES

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smarmosaurus September 17 2009, 15:35:45 UTC
You're not supposed to look directly at it!

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narkoleptik September 18 2009, 01:43:39 UTC
IT'S LIKE LOOKING INTO THE SUN AND BEING UNABLE TO LOOK AWAY

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smarmosaurus September 17 2009, 23:56:42 UTC
I think the plagiarism has finally started to die down. There's a community called "fpwatchers" that I joined recently. They're pretty thorough when it comes to cracking down on plagiarism cases and I haven't received an update in a while which I am going to interpret as good news.

I like how, the day after I say this, they make a massive update with like 20 cases of plagiarism. *facepalm*

PLAGIAAAAAAARISTS!!! DAMN YOU!!!1!

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narkoleptik September 18 2009, 01:44:26 UTC
HAHA I just saw that. Oh sweet irony.

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smarmosaurus September 18 2009, 05:08:34 UTC
What's even more ironic is that I was listening to Alanis Morissette's "Ironic" when I was checking my LJ updates.

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writtenfp September 25 2009, 23:54:16 UTC
hahahahaha. WOW. that's hilarious.

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narkoleptik September 18 2009, 01:37:42 UTC
Oh god, you totally hit all of my peeves and made me aware of more. (Ha, the street thug with the 16 year old vocab).

Yeah, I remember fpwatchers- I joined it too though honestly there's no chance anybody would ever rip my stuff. ... Yeah, what?

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