[ SECRET POST #2995 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2995 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Twin Peaks]


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[Big Hero 6]


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[WWE/NXT]


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[Chris Barrie (Red Dwarf)]


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[Person of Interest]


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[Legend of Korra]


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[Final Fantasy X]


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[Xenoblade Chronicles]


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[Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear]


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[Paul Darrow]


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[Gore Vidal]


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[South Park]


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[Ursula K. LeGuin, Earthsea series]


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[Galavant]


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[A Goofy Movie]


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[Mockingjay]








Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 079 secrets from Secret Submission Post #428.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

A brief public service announcement on grammar

[feotakahari]

A little piece of my soul dies every time you punctuate "she said" as such:

"This is an example sentence." She said.

Does bad grammar make you wince, FS? What convolutions and mutilations are most likely to make you backbutton?

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[vethica]

Ugh, yes. My boyfriend writes a lot of fanfic, and while he's a very good writer, he has never learned how to do dialogue tags properly. =_=

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[cenobitic_anchorite]

I am a slave to the comma splice. I can't seem to fully quit the damn thing. But improper dialogue tags have a special little place in hell.

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[(Anonymous)]

"Ya'll" - both that spelling and using it as a singular instead of a plural. Yes, I *have* said that many times here - but still true.

Also, "per say" instead of "per se".

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[(Anonymous)]

Ya'll being too uptight. I agree with the per se one. It bothers me for some reason.

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed on the "ya'll" thing, both counts. Uggghhhh blargh. It means "you all," y'all.

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed on both counts. 'Per say' is just plain wrong anyway.

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[(Anonymous)]

there's bigger things in my life to fret sbout honestly and i make enough mistakes myself getting all high and mighty about others' seems hypocritical

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[tabaqui]

Yes! And even though it's a country/style kind of thing, and not bad grammar, i wince when i read a post by someone from the UK and they write something like 'we took our son John, to the fair.' I'm like - no! Comma no go there!!

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[(Anonymous)]

??

I'm from the UK and I wouldn't write that sentence that way at all. If I was using commas at all it'd be "We took our son, John, to the fair."

I can't say I've seen anything specific about British grammar that would make your example there acceptable.

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[case]

definately alot

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[(Anonymous)]

LOL. Your funny case.

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[snowcipher]

When authors use an apostrophe for a plural. It makes me rage.

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, yes. And beyond mere poor punctuation or misspelling, is inserting the grammar of Country A into the mouth of a character from Country B. It's so jarring.

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[(Anonymous)]

the only strong feeling I have is that saying "loose" when you mean "lose" should be illegal

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[cloud_riven]

Mostly dialogue troubles for me. If you have two characters talking within the same paragraph, or (better yet) having the same character talking in two consecutive paragraphs without the right cues or quotations, I'm sticking around because the writing has turned into a mental and visual train wreck.

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[darkmanifest]

Why do people keep doing that? Where do they learn it? The only place I have ever seen dialogue punctuated like that is in fanfiction, unless there's some uber-popular published works that do the exact same thing that fic writers are copying from.

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[(Anonymous)]

I still get this wrong!
Something about it being similar but different from my mother tongue grammar screws me over.

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[al28894]

Eh, I tend to look at the whole story before focusing on the grammar, so it depends. That being said, if the story is full of bad grammar and punctuation beyond what I could tolerate, there goes the back button.

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[(Anonymous)]

It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure that rule out.

I still have difficulties sometimes with things that sound as though they should be speech tags (laughed, sighed etc.).

A writing teacher once said that if you can't actually speak words while you're doing those things, then they're not speech tags therefore they need a period not a comma. Cue me sitting there sometimes trying to see if I can actually laugh the sentence I'm writing.

I think the no punctuation inside the quotes bothers me a little more.

[(Anonymous)]

"This is an example sentence"

Also, haphazard capitalization - proper nouns should be capitalized. Yes, every time, not just when someone feels like it. And if you are starting a new sentence in dialogue, capitalize it.

Okay: "This is an example sentence," she said and paused, "which continues after the speaker and her actions are denoted."
Okay: "This is an example sentence," she said. "This is another example sentence."
Wrong: "This is an example sentence," she said. "this is another example sentence."
Wrong: "This is an example sentence," she said "this is another example sentence."

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[chrys]

Should of and its friends drive me particularly crazy.

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[diet_poison]

standard they're/their/there and your/you're drive me bonkers.

random: I hate it when people write "phase[d]" instead of "faze[d]". those two words are not the same!!!

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[(Anonymous)]

Not in type, but in real life (okay, talk shows and occasionally court shows) I've been hearing people use the word "whenever" in place of "when" far too often lately. It's like an epidemic. I don't know who told them this was right, or if they think the word "whenever" is just a fancier version of the word "when," but it seems to be happening SO often. It must be a recent trend because until about a year ago I'd never heard anyone mixing the two up before.

ex:

"The car accident happened whenever I was twenty."

Re: A brief public service announcement on grammar

[caerbannog]

Commas, everywhere.