would you like to have some barley and rice along with that?

[yati]

It's a bit jarring when you're reading a very well written fic and find yourself stumbling across typos involving homophones. "Taught" instead of "taut" certainly made me blink, but I can brush off things like that, especially when the writing is good and the writer is not consistently misspelling the word -- you just miss some of those, sometimes. Which is why it is nice to have a beta reader, but that's another story altogether.

However, "ryely" almost made hit the back button, despite the fic being almost impeccable otherwise. Most likely because I didn't even recognise it as a word -- I'm pretty sure spellcheck would have caught that. It didn't help that it appeared a few times in the fic. Also, it gives me weird images. The only way, presumably, you can smile ryely is if you have a lot of that particular grain in your mouth.


I wonder about my standards, sometimes.



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I need to go spend some quality time with the Wrangulator, but I keep getting distracted by fic!

Comments

[starlady]

I don't think your standards are too high. But mine are at least that high, so this isn't really an objective opinion.

[yati]

I think I'm mostly offended by "ryely" because a spellchecker would have caught that. And considering what I do for a living (I'm in publishing), my standards are probably not high enough!

[auronlu.livejournal.com]

Yuck.

I don't use a beta, and I don't use a spellchecker.

Yet "ryely" is still beyond my tolerance. Then again, I read a fic last night which described a desirable woman's breasts as "pulp" when "plush" or "plump" or some other squeezable term was meant.

The badfic is coming to eat our brains. RUN!

[cyrnelle.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't think it matters whether you use a beta or a spellchecker or not, I doubt it raises your tolerance levels -- bad spelling is bad spelling.

The thing is, the whole fic was pretty decent! Just . . . ryely. I. Am at lost at what to say to that.

Hmm pulpy. Maybe they over-squeezed it. XD *joins in the run from badfic*