That dragged one bugs the shit out of me and it's not only over at Fanfiction, it's leads me to leave notes all over live journals too.
Chickens LAY eggs - please sort out the lay, lie, lays, lies down, lying and laying in your head before you start writing it down. This one is so prevalent I tend to bang my head and don't even bother trying to correct.
I'm also getting annoyed with the bring/take problem, which annoys me immensely even in the spoken form as it's just illogical. Written down it screams.
Yes, there is such a thing as spoken language as opposed to the written form but there is also dialogue and quotation marks that allow you to use slang and the vernacular.
One more whine is the horrible approach of not using quotation marks at all, what? I'm supposed to guess when characters are speaking? Some writers now use italics for speech - yes, darlings it may be trendy and cool, but I can't bloody READ it and isn't that the point?
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Date: 2006-11-20 10:19 pm (UTC)Chickens LAY eggs - please sort out the lay, lie, lays, lies down, lying and laying in your head before you start writing it down. This one is so prevalent I tend to bang my head and don't even bother trying to correct.
I'm also getting annoyed with the bring/take problem, which annoys me immensely even in the spoken form as it's just illogical. Written down it screams.
Yes, there is such a thing as spoken language as opposed to the written form but there is also dialogue and quotation marks that allow you to use slang and the vernacular.
One more whine is the horrible approach of not using quotation marks at all, what? I'm supposed to guess when characters are speaking? Some writers now use italics for speech - yes, darlings it may be trendy and cool, but I can't bloody READ it and isn't that the point?