Having spent the last hour reading fic...

[ealgylden]

One R, two Bs.

One R, two Bs.

Caribbean.

There are places in the world that are difficult to spell. This really shouldn't be one of them.

Comments

[cicerothewriter.livejournal.com]

And the difficulty of spelling "Caribbean" can be mitigated with one simple click of the spell checker...

I can understand misspelling there, they're, and their every once in a while, especially when the spell checker misses them, but to misspell words that can be checked, frankly, is laziness, and it drives me up the wall.

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Exactly! It takes mere seconds to check the spelling. These authors don't have seconds? I just don't understand that sort of shoddy, careless workmanship.

[cicerothewriter.livejournal.com]

I don't understand it either. Sure, it's just fan-fiction, but damn, they should take pride in their work. They shouldn't post it to prove what an idiot they are, but post it to show their intelligence, dedication, creativity, or whatever.

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Sure, it's just fan-fiction, but damn, they should take pride in their work.

Precisely. If they don't care enough to spell simple place names correctly, why should I care enough to read their stories? I can understand the occasional mistake with homophones. It annoys me (grammar geek), but I understand it. But they should at least get the obvious things right. Sheesh.

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

*snort*

I've spent the day surfing and compiling links in PotC for my page. I feel your pain.

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

You ought to get hazard pay, "for risk to eyes and brain taken in the service of the fandom." I've really enjoyed this fandom so far, but sometimes some of the writers seem very young. All that netspeak... shudder

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

Oh, but think... in a few years most of them will be clued in fans! Population explosion! :-)

[colleenkane.livejournal.com]

you think this is bad, wait til all the appalling (that's appalling with TWO p's, thanks) Troy fic starts rolling in next spring. I shudder to think what these people are going to do with Ancient Greek...

(and roll in it will... Orli and Bean in the same flick equals instafandom, mark my words.)

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Oh good lord, I didn't even think of that. All those names and places, ready for mangling. And spelling is basic stuff- what happens when they get their little hands on the culture and history? Ouch.

Orli and Bean in the same flick equals instafandom, mark my words.

Heh, true. Considering that there's already at least one RPS community for it, I have no doubt there are lots of potential Troy-writers chomping at the bit. Heck, if I wrote fic, I'd be one of them.

and ps,

[colleenkane.livejournal.com]

just be glad it wasn't "Pirates of Kyrgyzstan" ;)

Re: and ps,

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

Ha! That'd almost be worth it!

Re: and ps,

[carmarthen.livejournal.com]

*snort* I can never spell Kyrgyzstan, but then, there are about 10 or so accepted spellings.

As regards Caribbean, I find it helps to think of it as "Pirates of the Carib Bean" smushed together. But maybe the average fangirl doesn't know what carib beans are.

Re: and ps,

[colleenkane.livejournal.com]

But maybe the average fangirl doesn't know what carib beans are.

that is probably a safe assumption.

[alethialia.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. I truly, truly do. Some PotC fic is just painful. And the 'discussions' can be even worse.

You know what would be great? If some generous soul trolled through all the crap and put together a list of good stories.

Huh. Which would otherwise be known as a list of recs. ;)

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

Hee! http://elke.slashcity.org/potc.html

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

This is why I'm relying on friends' rec pages to find good PotC fic. It's hell trying to sift through the LJ communities, not to mention the even scarier mailing lists *shudder*

[ealgylden.livejournal.com]

I haven't dared go near the mailing lists. If LJ is this scary, what must they be like? And it takes me forever to translate that netspeak stuff into English. Yeah, thank goodness for rec pages.

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

Ah, you mean all the "OMG ur so kewl! CU l8r!" stuff? Yeah, that's annoying. I don't mind acronyms, but geez, moderation, people!

Of course, I'm also having trouble keeping up with pirategasm. So much volume, when it comes to posts.