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⌈ Secret Post #2478 ⌋

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

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[rune factory 4]

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[Law & Order]

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[Wander Over Yonder]

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[Breaking Bad]

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[Transformers: IDW Generation One]

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(Panic! at the Disco)

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[Luke Evans as Bard the Bowman in "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug"]

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[league of legends pro teams - team curse]

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What's with this obsession with the grammar and spelling in secrets? I mean, this isn't professional work or a senior thesis. It's just fandom secrets. It seems silly to be so ready to jump on any little error.

Welcome to the Internet

Because it's easier to jump on that than actually respond to what the person is saying.

Yeah this. The "you made a spelling error so your entire argument is void" fallacy is popular online for a reason.

"hurrr you made an error so you must be stupid and your argument means nothing"< how I...guess that logic goes. IDK

On dA I once had someone tell me my argument "meant nothing" because my art is bad and this is an 'ART' community. Then again the rest of his argument tactics were shit too...so. lol It's an derailing tactic.

We're kind of dicks here.

Best answer.

I don't care about grammar and spelling. But if you put neon yellow on a lime green background, MAY YOU STEP ON ALL THE LEGOS IN THE WORLD!

Secrets are usually short enough that they shouldn't be too hard to proofread?

Can't speak for anyone else, but I have a "thing" that makes it so I literally can't see when I skip a word, or use the wrong version ["Their" instead of "There"] because when I read it my brain puts the right word where it would go. It literally takes forgetting about what I wrote to see what's wrong and, well, secrets aren't worth that.

Read your work backwards. It helps because you are not used to seeing it.

Everyone has that problem. Read the words out loud, read them backwards, write them down and then double check. There are dozens of ways to proofread to get around that "thing."

Yeah but....it can be easy to overlook something sometimes and..well sometimes people just make mistakes. Like if it's something they're passionate about or have strong emotions about they may get caught up in emotions and forget they spelled "the" as "teh".

I sometimes make that mistake in typing myself when IMing and I 'm otherwise a decent speller. So yeah. People are human. I mean I get being annoyed by something that's really hard to read and understand and asking for clarification. But there's a difference between that and "HAH YOU MADE A MISTAKE! YOU FAIL FOREVER" /"You must be an idiot and I CANNOT take you seriously!11!" The latter is just being a contrary dick.

Why would you proofread something as silly as fandom secrets? I agree with the above, it's not like this is being graded or has any professional standards. Most people are probably careless with their spelling or grammar when writing secrets because this is sort of a careless pastime.

Enh, 'just because it's (insert not being graded thing here)' doesn't seem a reason to me why people shouldn't proofread or at least attempt a modicum of proper grammar and spelling.

Agreed that it shouldn't be the be all and end all of a secret or a text or an email, but to me using the 'it's only' excuse is why people have so much trouble doing it for important things.

Could the people pointing out mistakes be less dickish about it? Yes. Should the people who made the mistake be offended if someone does point it out? No.

If you make a mistake doing anything, people are likely to point it out. Partially because we like feeling superior to someone else, and partially because it really DOES bother a lot of us to see a lack of caring in even the small things.

(Cue me probably having made a typo somewhere in this.)

I proofread everything. I can't help it. I'm also the kind of person who has to jiggle the game of Boggle until all the pieces are lined up rectangularly. Which is not to say I never make mistakes, because I'm not perfect, but when I notice them it bugs me.

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They have to learn somewhere, and it hurts no one to point out mistakes in fandom.

Because sometimes people make funny pictures about crabs and I'm okay with that.

I'm simultaneously proud and ashamed that anyone remembers that.

Not sure if want context....

Well... it involves typos. On a secret. We could not resist.

It might be here.

Edited 2013-10-16 04:19 (UTC)

I only think it's very striking when it's a secret that looks like some works went into it, design-wise, but then the secret maker was too lazy to correct the spelling. Seems weird, is all.

Yes, this. Especially when you know that if they'd used Papyrus or Comic Sans, a dozen people would dogpile them with no protest whatever from Miss Delicate Sensibilities.

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