Notes to People Who Posted Recently on a Certain Fic Community

[cimorene]

Dear Badthor,

The word "holiday" is just a noun, not the name of a religious holiday, and should not be capitalised except within a title or on a holiday card.

WRONG: "I'll try to make it home for the Holidays."
RIGHT: "I'll try to make it home for Rosh Hashannah"/ "I'll try to make it home for the holidays."
RIGHT: Happy Holidays! HAPPY HOLIDAYS! (you can capitalise your holiday card text however you like)
WRONG: hApPY hOlIdAys! (except like that)

No LoVe Love love,
Cim



Dear Plebe,

A "wall" is a dividing structure. That paper that you glue all over it is called "wallpaper", and so are large images intended to be used as backgrounds on your computer sometimes (get it? it's an analogy!). We would have called those images "wall" except when they were handing out terms, we discovered that one was already taken and meant something completely different!

More irritation than you can probably comprehend,
Cim



Dear non-native speakers,

Those prepositions can really be a bitch. I know, right? Different verbs take different ones with absolutely no logic to it, really! You just have to learn them by rote, basically. Your ear can't tell you shit. That's why you should get a beta reader - one who knows what they're doing. Oh, and you should probably get them to beta the headers too. I can't be the only one who back-buttons if the headers are full of mistakes.

Love,
Cim


Dear betas of non-native speakers:

Ha, ha. Very funny. Now tell them the RIGHT way.

No love,
Cim

Comments

[copracat]

Ha, ha. Very funny. Now tell them the RIGHT way.


Go on. Spoil all our fun.

(That would have worked better if I could close html tags.)

(And brackets.)

[dreamnnightmare.livejournal.com]

but do they EVER listen? Not till Heck freezes over. Or at least acquires a thin film of ice around the edges of the 1st circle.