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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2002-07-24 08:20 am

grammar-and-punctuation cop!

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

for god's sake, people.

[identity profile] kmazzy.livejournal.com 2002-07-24 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
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!

[identity profile] sirndipiti.livejournal.com 2002-07-24 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
..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!

[identity profile] sirndipiti.livejournal.com 2002-07-24 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
..but then too, it's important to close tags (like after whole ....so, who's perfect? :)
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[identity profile] giglet.livejournal.com 2002-07-24 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] silviakundera.livejournal.com 2002-07-24 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
Ouch. And that's the oddest sort of punctuation mistake to make...