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The BSB fanfic related pet peeve thread
Carter-Orange:
I hate really bad spelling in a story, and also when the writer hasn't presented it well, eg, no paragraphs, just all clumped together. It makes it hard to get into it.
honey:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 19, 2009, 10:12:24 PM ---Does it upset you that that joke is still around? lol
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lol no. It was too funny!
Chaos:
--- Quote from: Carter-Orange on February 20, 2009, 05:52:59 AM ---I hate really bad spelling in a story, and also when the writer hasn't presented it well, eg, no paragraphs, just all clumped together. It makes it hard to get into it.
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The clump is my biggest one. I'm a horrible speller so I'm a little less likely to notice that (though I take the time to run things through spell-check, so it is a bit odd to me that someone would post without doing that...). But The Clump to me is just a sign that they don't care at all about trying to make their stories readable (unless it's a formatting issue that a site has screwed up to no fault of their own; buuuuut I'm not likely to read it until it's fixed even in that case...)
cabybakes:
--- Quote from: Chaos on February 20, 2009, 09:27:52 AM ---The clump is my biggest one. I'm a horrible speller so I'm a little less likely to notice that (though I take the time to run things through spell-check, so it is a bit odd to me that someone would post without doing that...). But The Clump to me is just a sign that they don't care at all about trying to make their stories readable (unless it's a formatting issue that a site has screwed up to no fault of their own; buuuuut I'm not likely to read it until it's fixed even in that case...)
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The clump! I love it...perfect word to describe it!
Carter-Orange:
--- Quote from: Chaos on February 20, 2009, 09:27:52 AM ---The clump is my biggest one. I'm a horrible speller so I'm a little less likely to notice that (though I take the time to run things through spell-check, so it is a bit odd to me that someone would post without doing that...). But The Clump to me is just a sign that they don't care at all about trying to make their stories readable (unless it's a formatting issue that a site has screwed up to no fault of their own; buuuuut I'm not likely to read it until it's fixed even in that case...)
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I know what you mean, sometimes I don't run spellcheck and there might be the odd mistake which I'll go back and alter, but the clumping is the biggest one for me. It just looks so un-appealing.
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