How hard is it to check spelling, really?
Aug. 25th, 2005 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misscamPlease tell me this is a joke
These days, people post fanfic without being able to spell the main characters' names right, without being able (or not bothering) to capitalize names, without knowing quotation rules, without knowing the differences between your/you're, without spell checking, without commas... Granted, I am a fanfic snob in many ways, but I'd think this was the very minimum of what a reader has a right to demand. It's after all a fanfic, not a clever English guessing game of "Guess which word this is meant to be!", "Guess who is actually speaking this line!" and the ever-popular "Guess who the bloody hell this person is! Spelling no clue!"
And that's just the basics - then we get into characterisation, which can be a sad, sad state of affairs in a lot of fandoms.
I want good fanfic to read. Wah.
Oh, and...
These days, people post fanfic without being able to spell the main characters' names right, without being able (or not bothering) to capitalize names, without knowing quotation rules, without knowing the differences between your/you're, without spell checking, without commas... Granted, I am a fanfic snob in many ways, but I'd think this was the very minimum of what a reader has a right to demand. It's after all a fanfic, not a clever English guessing game of "Guess which word this is meant to be!", "Guess who is actually speaking this line!" and the ever-popular "Guess who the bloody hell this person is! Spelling no clue!"
And that's just the basics - then we get into characterisation, which can be a sad, sad state of affairs in a lot of fandoms.
I want good fanfic to read. Wah.
Oh, and...
