grammar-and-punctuation cop!

[cimorene]

when a story starts off its first sentence with a punctuation error is when i stop reading.

for god's sake, people.

Comments

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

ahahahahahah i get quite a kick out of badly punctuated stories. kind of pleasure from pain thing. that was bad though. *rubs hands gleefully*

and if you read further down there is worse stuff!!!

(and it's avril LAVIGNE i think)

*smooches*

ye gods!

[sirndipiti.livejournal.com]

..if you read the whole first paragraph, you begin to think, "this must be from a test or worksheet on grammer and punctuation"

Re: ye gods!

[sirndipiti.livejournal.com]

..but then too, it's important to close tags (like after whole ....so, who's perfect? :)

[giglet.livejournal.com]

Well, if you're going to read Ms. Jackson's dSfic, you know what to expect, now.

So if badfic is posted to an archive and nobody reads it, is it still bad?

Maybe I shouldn't throw stones: the last time I posted a story unbetaed the very first word was misspelled. But I fixed it asap.

[silviakundera.livejournal.com]

Ouch. And that's the oddest sort of punctuation mistake to make...