Re: Fanfic Pet Peeves -- Better Buffy Fics

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Date Posted: 13:59:00 06/25/02 Tue
Author: Kelso
Subject: Re: Fanfic Pet Peeves
In reply to: Martha 's message, "Fanfic Pet Peeves" on 21:07:49 06/24/02 Mon

1. Misspelled character names. My current target of wrath is Connor's name. An incredible number of people assume that it's either "Conor" or "Conner."

2. Author notes that include references to muses, "cannon" (but I don't mind "canon"), or any variation on "Sorry if my spelling or grammar sucks." Talk of muses won't make me not read a story, of course, but it does get on my nerves for some reason I can't really explain. Maybe because it just seems way too precious.

3. the phrase "spilled his cold seed"

4. Incorrect punctuation, especially in dialogue. Common mistakes that make me wince:
"Goodbye." Angel said.
"Who is it?" She asked.
"Thanks Buffy," Xander said.

And what everyone else has said.

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[> [> Re: Fanfic Pet Peeves -- Arwen Summers, 23:23:24 07/07/02 Sun

>3. the phrase "spilled his cold seed"

Ewww! lol

>4. Incorrect punctuation, especially in dialogue.
>Common mistakes that make me wince:
>"Goodbye." Angel said.
>"Who is it?" She asked.
>"Thanks Buffy," Xander said.
>

forgive me, but I thought the last one was right. As a non-native speaker I might have learned a different or wrong grammer, but I always thought the comma comes before the quotation mark. Or do you mean the missing comma between "thanks" and "Buffy"?

Other things that just really annoy me, yes me, a German who should know less about right grammar than an American or Brit, is use of slang in narrative text.
E.g. kinda, wanna, could of (grrr!) or the constant mix up of their, they're and there or you're and your. Some people just don't seem to know the difference.

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[> [> Re: Fanfic Pet Peeves -- Kelso, 01:19:29 07/14/02 Sun

>"Thanks Buffy," Xander said.
>forgive me, but I thought the last one was right. As a non->native speaker I might have learned a different or wrong >grammer, but I always thought the comma comes before the >quotation mark. Or do you mean the missing comma between >"thanks" and "Buffy"?

Yes, the missing comma is what I meant.
The sentence
"Thanks, Buffy," said Xander
would be correct.

Sometimes I'll be reading a good story with almost no mistakes. Then I'll run into sentences like "Hi Wesley" or "Tara I hate you!" and the missing commas really irritate me.

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