Comments | channonyarrow: Things that really annoy me

channonyarrow

Things that really annoy me

Jan 15, 2007 11:15

- If you don't know how to spell a word, particularly if it is foreign, don't use it. Voila is not properly spelled "walla". It may, in some bizarrely non-French world, be pronounced "walla", but it isn't spelled that way.

- In the same vein, doozie is not spelled "doosie."

- The ellipsis is not the be-all and end-all of punctuation. ( Read more... )

bad authors, editorial fetishes, stuff wot defies categorising

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channonyarrow January 15 2007, 20:57:21 UTC

Oh god. Oh god.

There's a story that has, as a major plot point, the misspelling of "seafoam" (as in green) as "c-foam". It's a lot like that. Do not use words that you do not know how to spell! Or pronounce! You will look like an asshat!

the_siobhan January 15 2007, 20:52:05 UTC

Elipses bug me more than any other kind of mistake. I hear the person's voice just trailing off in my head and never resolving the thought. It drives me batshit.

channonyarrow January 15 2007, 20:56:01 UTC

What I hate...is when it's...done like...that.

Where there is no logical fucking reason for it to be. Not that there is ever a logical reason for an ellipse, given that not too many people on my flist are posting scholarly screeds that have been properly footnoted and everything and have quotations that are too long to keep intact (or veer off into irrelevancies before going back to whatever it is I'd like to bring to bear on my argument).

But honestly! Read the first sentence of my comment! Am I not witteh? I am a written genius, I tell you, because I can assrape an ellipse with the best of them!

mcmayhem January 15 2007, 21:10:07 UTC

One time...

at work...

someone...who was apparently not so bright...

wrote "wah lah" in an email...

and I LOL'ed...

channonyarrow January 16 2007, 18:35:33 UTC

That's when you want a button that says "Kill dumbass". Or, at the very least, "Disconnect dumbass' internet".

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channonyarrow January 16 2007, 18:34:54 UTC

I'm sorry - you're totally going to have to pull that ellipse over to the side of the road and be searched.

*g*

laurel714 January 16 2007, 05:07:59 UTC

My personal favorite: rediculous.

channonyarrow January 16 2007, 18:34:13 UTC

That one is so bad I actually forgot about it. But it's coming up more and more lately - I don't know what it is about that word that's so hard to spell.