Having spent the last hour reading fic...
Aug. 9th, 2003 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
One R, two Bs.
Caribbean.
There are places in the world that are difficult to spell. This really shouldn't be one of them.
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Date: 2003-08-10 03:38 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2003-08-10 03:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-08-10 04:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-08-10 05:31 pm (UTC)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.