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I curious about the spelling of a few terms that seem to be appearing in a few stories I have been reading.
shutter instead of shudder - "I shuddered at the creepy story"rather than "I shutter at that creepy story"
and the other one
"to do with" - some people writing "to due with."
Am I old fashioned?
I am curious on others thoughts
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You are not old fashioned.
People are just getting lazy and defensive.
The attitude is becoming more and more "%&(&%##!! you know what I meant" instead of embarrassment and a feeling of self improvement required...English is flexible we should be too, but how far do we have to bend before complaining.
Dayna.
Dang words
As my English composition professor told the class 30 years ago, “If your story is good it will hook me and draw me in, if it is boring I will have nothing else to do except look for mistakes.”
Although I have on occasion written bad poetry, I do not write stories, I don't have that talent, but I do so enjoy reading the stories here. Yes, there are writing mistakes, but when you figure some of the stories have new chapters coming out weekly and in some cases daily, the odds are not in favor of author. But, other than the stories that have no formatting, I enjoy most of what I read - because that is why I am here, to find the escape into other worlds not to grade papers.
Jeri Elaine
Homonyms, synonyms, heterographs, contractions, slang, colloquialisms, clichés, spoonerisms, and plain old misspellings are the bane of writers, but the art and magic of the story is in the telling not in the spelling.
I know a Professor
Who works in a large well known university ,which I won't name, and I have been told horror stories about student's in the final year of their English major bachelor’s degree and common spelling and grammar mistakes. Heterographs are apparently one of the most common mistakes that crop up. Mind you these are students who have supposedly grown up speaking English as their first language.
"Student's"
Lol.
Thank you1
I had never heard or seen the term 'heterographs' before, thank you for allowing me to learn something totally new to me.
Jeri
Jeri Elaine
Homonyms, synonyms, heterographs, contractions, slang, colloquialisms, clichés, spoonerisms, and plain old misspellings are the bane of writers, but the art and magic of the story is in the telling not in the spelling.
Today I had a customer call
Today I had a customer call me and tell me that his displays were so messed up that he couldn't see his computer anymore. I suggested that he turn on the light.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
The preposition OF
is used unnecessarily much of the time, I just read a report from the Guardian about a shooting outside of Calgary, outside Calgary says exactly the same but more succinctly. Get off of a horse! Eh? See what I mean?
Then of course mixing it with the verb to have. I could of got a drink, instead of the correct, I could have got a drink.
English is the greatest language on earth, it has more subtleties and nuances than any other it's so sad that most people who count it as their first language can't speak or write it properly, including me.
Angharad
what
She says like!
'appen we could go on and on on this subject tha knows.
Okay i'll admit getting high passes on my English exams (back then A passes were almost impossible due to the % system they used for marking - it was so screwed 90% might only get you a C pass!) and I do have a BSC (Hons) which requires proper use of language to attain.
Time for me to get on and do some actual writing!
Madeline Anafrid Bell
Typos the spell check does noit catch
Everybody loves the
Rouge Nights of Satin ...
:)
Spelling
For many of us English is not our first language.
I've learned to understand English by the spelling, not by the sound of the words.
So I stumble much more over "wrong" words.
Martina
still
Much better than my German Martina!
You'd think that after all these years i'd be better but i've never really got to grips with all the nuances. So if I get my German wrong please, please tell me what It should be!
Madeline Anafrid Bell
The Best Intentions
It depends on whether the author is doing it intentionally or unintentionally. There are times that I hear people make those same grammatical errors in conversation. Sometimes the author may well have a character display the lack of good grammatic knowledge to add authenticity to the character.
In my story, I have two characters (Marco and Bobby Earl) who talk without using proper grammar.
It drove my spell-check and grammar-check programs nuts.
Anyway, to my mind, it is irritating for me to read bad grammar sometimes, but the author writes like they want and I'm just reading it.
I guess you could say, it's a mute point.
8-D
waif
Be kind to those who are unkind, tolerant toward those who treat you with intolerance, loving to those who withhold their love, and always smile through the pains of life.
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