“Speling”

Things That Annoy Me

Well, I think you can guess what I’m going to rant about in this update.

Yep, you guessed right!

Spelling.

Did you ever read a fanfic that had a really good storyline but it had a dang lot of spelling mistakes?

Well, I have, and I cringe whenever I see one of those mistakes, even if it’s minor. Like seriously, do you not feel turned off when you read a story decorated with spelling mistakes?

Would it really take up a lot of time to proofread the stories written?

Yes, I know. I’m not perfect, I make mistakes as well (though very little as Microsoft Word does spelling checks for me), and I would certainly get irritated if a reader corrects every of my small errors, which is why I don’t usually comment saying “Hey this chapter has these mistakes, go correct them”, especially if there are only a few mistakes in the whole story.

What’s worse is that some of the words are spelled wrong not because of some typo error, but because the author doesn't know how to spell the word in the first place. In my belief, if you don't know how to spell the word, don't ever use it. And if you really want to use it, at least have the decency to check the meaning and spelling of the word before writing it in. This can seriously improve the overall presentation of the story.

 

Examples (based on real cases):

Their in the bedroom. Silly girls, leaving they’re phones in the living room.

Corrected version: They’re in the bedroom. Silly girls, leaving their phones in the living room.

 

Okay, so a while ago I saw this post on 9gag.com and someone said that if every time you wanna use the internet, and it asks you this (not exact):

Fill in the blank.

_______ swimming in the pool.

A) Their

B) They’re

C) There

There would be so many who wouldn't be able to use the internet.

If you have any other issues you wanna bring up, lemme know in the comments or you can pm me in the messages if you wanna have a chapter/topic all to yourself (I’ll credit you!). Ciao!

-immajokervip

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I just realised aff censored my title in chap 19... :/ -Jihyun
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Exofan12345 #1
Male preg does not bother me as much but what makes me cringe in when the male who is pregnant calls the baby ' my bundle of joy'....I don't really know why it makes me cringe, but it does.
JaraGizem #2
Chapter 22: I agree with you ONE THOUSAND TIMES OVER!!!!! Those smart Alecks just makes me want to punch them in the throat! Just GTFO! And I despise fictions that use Xi as LuHan's last name it had me hating LuHan for a while because for the life of me it confused me when I started out. It's the same with those who us Li for HanKyung/HanGeng. It's Lu Han and Han Geng, dammit!
baobei_love_1997 #3
Chapter 22: A lot of fanfics here have this: except the main female character(s) who is supposedly "different": while the rest female population is "obsessed" with the main male character(s), she doesn't even care about them, the rest is filled with makeup, she doesn't put on much (sometimes even purposingly uglify herself), the rest is always in short, revealing clothing, she doesn't even like dresses... I know it's to make the main female character look good, but that doesn't mean the other regular females are all the same. And even if they do things like that, why authors have to make them become so easy, so... disgusting? It's only how they choose to dress, how to act... not because they're all bad like how they're discribed. Sometimes main male character(s) suffer this as well.
Sorry for the rant, but I hate it when people make other people look bad just to make someone look good.
mysoulisstarving #4
Chapter 22: omg., from all the exo fics I read i really thought luhan's last name was xi...
Chiyoko-Nagai #5
Chapter 8: You're not alone
I do this on my stories too :'DDD
I haven't even posted the first chap for my current story yet :'DDD
Graysome #6
Chapter 19: Somehow chapter 19 suddenly makes me want to rant all day long. Okay i have to admit, i do curse alot sometimes (okay, i do it all the time tbh) but let's all think again, there are freaking CHILDREN on asianfanfics (mainly my little brother, who now curses alot due to the fanfics that he was reading), wouldn't it be a bad influence on them? For instance, in my country (mostly my juniors) say alot. When i was in fourth grade, i didn't even know what that word meant. But now, the fourth graders at a school nearby says it like it's not a big deal. I don't know why, it irritates me alot when the ones that seems so innocent says a word they shouldn't even know. End of rant :3

P.s Anime? Should i list alot? I mean i can give you a whole page of animes you can watch. I don't know which genre you would like so, for starters if you haven't watched it yet, you can watch “Kaichou wa maid-sama”, which is very funny to be exact. I'm feeling the urge to give you a whole list to be honest.

P.p.s You made me check my comment for a long time before actually posting it. Ahaha, you changed my writing style, and to be honest, it helps me alot in my writing exams. So, Thank you :3
I still think there are alot of mistakes though.（＾ω＾）
literary_whimsy #7
Chapter 21: I have to agree on this, particularly the first point. It is just really unrealistic to conceive after you have just had a miscarriage. I know that some people are just misinformed when it comes to certain things, but things shouldn't always be put in a story just because they could happen in real life.
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