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AAAAAGGGGGHHHH!!!
Mar. 11th, 2006 08:20 pmI just got thrown out of a perfectly tense fic.
The other night I was reading a wonderful epfic that kept throwing me out too.
Why? Because people don't check the spelling past the spellcheck.
Homonyms homonyms wherefore art thou making me crazy?
It's "make do" my friends, not "make due". As in "make this do the job of that."
And "Ought" is about obligation or necessity. "Aught" is the word that means "something" -- compare it with "Naught" if you don't believe me.
I mix words up sometimes myself if I'm typing fast, but lately I'm seeing these two particular errors more often than I'm seeing the correct terms.
And it throws me out of the fic EVERY SINGLE TIME!
AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!
E.T.A. Link for those who feel they would like some guidance: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
Found over at blackbird song's journal and cited by annwyn.
The other night I was reading a wonderful epfic that kept throwing me out too.
Why? Because people don't check the spelling past the spellcheck.
Homonyms homonyms wherefore art thou making me crazy?
It's "make do" my friends, not "make due". As in "make this do the job of that."
And "Ought" is about obligation or necessity. "Aught" is the word that means "something" -- compare it with "Naught" if you don't believe me.
I mix words up sometimes myself if I'm typing fast, but lately I'm seeing these two particular errors more often than I'm seeing the correct terms.
And it throws me out of the fic EVERY SINGLE TIME!
AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!
E.T.A. Link for those who feel they would like some guidance: http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
Found over at blackbird song's journal and cited by annwyn.
