Problem With The “Logue”

Things That Annoy Me

This happens waaaaay too many times.

I’m sure that you have encountered at least a few authors who write “dialogue” as “dialouge”, I know I have.

Look, I know that this word can be a little hard to spell (not really), but if the stories have almost no spelling mistakes, then this word shouldn't pose as a problem. I learnt how to spell this word when I was eight, but I dunno about others.

I’m a grammar freak (nazi), and I get really paranoid when I see someone spell this word wrongly. Moreover, this is not the only word. Any word with “logue” as the suffix, you can guarantee that some will definitely spell it wrong. And it’s kinda irritating sometimes when you can’t fix it because it’s not your story. At times like these, I would rage and bang on my computer while my mom just judges me from afar (yes that really happens sometimes).

Here are a list of words (according to frequency)
Catalogue
Analogue
Prologue
Monologue
Epilogue
And the list goes on…

What hurts me the most is that some of my favourite websites actually spell this word wrongly! These times, I just feel torn between wanting to slap the person and complimenting how great their website is (except for that part).

So now, I wanna reach out to people, to remind their favourite authors to not spell this word the wrong way, and rid the world of this pesky problem.

 

If you have any other issues you wanna bring up, lemme know in the comments.

That’s it. Ciao!

-immajokervip

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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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