Oh, my HELL.
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fanficrants. Dude, it's not even my fandom, and I felt compelled to leave a review with my sock account, because the author's attitude just frosts me.
Here's the first paragraph of the fic:
A loud crash was heard with a snap to go with it. Laying in the rain blood from where the shining white wing was beside him blood ran from the bone that tore through his wing. His vilote eye's looked to the sky seeing the ones after him the ones wanting to hurt him the ones who did this to him. His clothes where torn off to the point of being almost nude. He whimpered at all the bruses cuts scrpas and broken bones he got. Looking to the sky again he saw no more of them flying letting out sobs of pain he couldn't take it anymore he wouldn't live if they found him again. What was he suppouse to do? his wing was broken his legs where to stiff and to top it off the bleeding wouldn't stop
Yeah, she left off that final period herself. She's made an error in every single sentence (with the possible exception of the first one, although it's awkward as hell). Now, if she was polite to people who told her that her spelling, grammar, and punctuation could use some work, that would be one thing. But no:
Author Note #1: as for the rest of you I don't need help with Grammar I can write MY story anyway I want you just telling me my plot sucks (-Cookie- Tohma 911)my spelling sucks (again Cookie) you just make me wanna stop, No Maximum Poofy Commas are not my friends, Penguinie I can spell anything the way I want it's my fic my grammar is fine to me thats all that matters.
Author Note #2: I wnana do a kinky sex part O-o next chapt or something I am sure anyways NO FLAMES and I don't want someone telling me "Spelling bad grammar bad" I don't care! ha! hahahahahahahahaha!
Kinky sex? She's fifteen, according to her profile. I hope she doesn't know anything about kinky sex. And even if she does, it'll be badly written kinky sex. *checks* Um, yeah. She's got an mpreg fic, and she makes it a point that no lube is involved. Can I just say "OW"? Even I (the non-slasher extraordinaire) know enough to know that no lube + anal sex - any preparation whatsoever = blood + pain.
These aren't even my fandoms, but the abuse of the English language (not to mention the abuse of basic biology) just makes me fume.
So, I left her a review:
You are aware, are you not, that this site has certain rules that you agree to when you upload stories here? You can say "I can spell anything the way I want it's my fic my grammar is fine to me thats all that matters," but that's not so at all. There's a cute little button down at the bottom of the page that says "Report abuse," and one of the reportable abuses is "Disregard for proper language: grammar, spelling, punctuation, and etc." The F7 key is your friend. If you're writing this in a text document with no spell check, there are online spell checkers, or you can download OpenOffice from FFN itself. Honestly, there is no excuse for the appalling grammar, punctuation, and spelling in this. EVERY SINGLE SENTENCE in your very first paragraph has multiple errors. And if you're too much of a brat to try to have some respect for the language you're mangling, then that "Report abuse" button is just a click away. I haven't used it yet, but I'd be surprised if someone hadn't already.
She'll probably respond in her standard way, but hopefully the mention of the "Report abuse" button will make her sit up and take notice.
fanficrants. Dude, it's not even my fandom, and I felt compelled to leave a review with my sock account, because the author's attitude just frosts me.Here's the first paragraph of the fic:
A loud crash was heard with a snap to go with it. Laying in the rain blood from where the shining white wing was beside him blood ran from the bone that tore through his wing. His vilote eye's looked to the sky seeing the ones after him the ones wanting to hurt him the ones who did this to him. His clothes where torn off to the point of being almost nude. He whimpered at all the bruses cuts scrpas and broken bones he got. Looking to the sky again he saw no more of them flying letting out sobs of pain he couldn't take it anymore he wouldn't live if they found him again. What was he suppouse to do? his wing was broken his legs where to stiff and to top it off the bleeding wouldn't stop
Yeah, she left off that final period herself. She's made an error in every single sentence (with the possible exception of the first one, although it's awkward as hell). Now, if she was polite to people who told her that her spelling, grammar, and punctuation could use some work, that would be one thing. But no:
Author Note #1: as for the rest of you I don't need help with Grammar I can write MY story anyway I want you just telling me my plot sucks (-Cookie- Tohma 911)my spelling sucks (again Cookie) you just make me wanna stop, No Maximum Poofy Commas are not my friends, Penguinie I can spell anything the way I want it's my fic my grammar is fine to me thats all that matters.
Author Note #2: I wnana do a kinky sex part O-o next chapt or something I am sure anyways NO FLAMES and I don't want someone telling me "Spelling bad grammar bad" I don't care! ha! hahahahahahahahaha!
Kinky sex? She's fifteen, according to her profile. I hope she doesn't know anything about kinky sex. And even if she does, it'll be badly written kinky sex. *checks* Um, yeah. She's got an mpreg fic, and she makes it a point that no lube is involved. Can I just say "OW"? Even I (the non-slasher extraordinaire) know enough to know that no lube + anal sex - any preparation whatsoever = blood + pain.
These aren't even my fandoms, but the abuse of the English language (not to mention the abuse of basic biology) just makes me fume.
So, I left her a review:
You are aware, are you not, that this site has certain rules that you agree to when you upload stories here? You can say "I can spell anything the way I want it's my fic my grammar is fine to me thats all that matters," but that's not so at all. There's a cute little button down at the bottom of the page that says "Report abuse," and one of the reportable abuses is "Disregard for proper language: grammar, spelling, punctuation, and etc." The F7 key is your friend. If you're writing this in a text document with no spell check, there are online spell checkers, or you can download OpenOffice from FFN itself. Honestly, there is no excuse for the appalling grammar, punctuation, and spelling in this. EVERY SINGLE SENTENCE in your very first paragraph has multiple errors. And if you're too much of a brat to try to have some respect for the language you're mangling, then that "Report abuse" button is just a click away. I haven't used it yet, but I'd be surprised if someone hadn't already.
She'll probably respond in her standard way, but hopefully the mention of the "Report abuse" button will make her sit up and take notice.
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Date: 2005-09-26 06:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 08:19 pm (UTC)You know, if the schools in this country are churning out students who think "Grammar and spelling only matter for schoolwork; if it's just something I'm doing for fun then I don't need to try," I fear for our future.
Yah, I couldn't let that go either.
Date: 2005-09-26 08:16 pm (UTC)If you KNOW, as you obviously do, that in the one language of which you have any command at all your literacy would shame a ten-year-old - why in Heaven's name did you submit the story in this condition? If you don't know how to write - as clearly you do not - let someone who DOES, read over the story and do some fast spell-checking and grammar touch-up! Isn't there any friend you could ask?
I give you credit for at least making the effort to display your imagination - but you KNEW you had a problem. Don't get defensive - ask for help!
Re: Yah, I couldn't let that go either.
Date: 2005-09-26 08:21 pm (UTC)Re: Yah
Date: 2005-09-26 08:29 pm (UTC)Wuff (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fanficrants/1254029.html?thread=37195405#t37195405).
Re: Yah
Date: 2005-09-26 08:38 pm (UTC)Okay, at least she's writing. That's a good; everyone should have a creative outlet. But I'm not sure she's making a real effort to be actually good. "It's just fanfic," after all. Not like she's being graded on it.
*evil grin* Except she is. By the denizens of the WWW...
Re: Yah
Date: 2005-09-26 08:53 pm (UTC)Re: Yah
Date: 2005-09-27 05:19 am (UTC)Ah, the Decline and Fall of 'the American Girl' - girls at this age in AD 1955 would recoil with repugnance, and their teachers would have stropped some manners and education into her.
Re: Yah
Date: 2005-09-27 05:21 am (UTC)Re: Yah
Date: 2005-09-27 05:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 09:04 pm (UTC)We can all make up our own grammar and spelling now? Rock on! Welcome to my first story in Kantayrese:
WUJeqnsi;1ms wijk[01jsk kjejdmhkwns diwk oie,kmowjs 39k skjsjw ieh whajkwr hiwa iwhak iwhfxzk iwfkja smwikzm wn nzosk emkkam qznska wjkmz.
OMG! It's a literary masterpiece
of random keyboard clicks! How dare you criticize my inherent brilliance? U SUXORS! :P