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Okay. Is it too much to ask, that if you're going to be a big enough "fan" of a show to write stories about it, that you learn to spell the characters' freaking names? I've been perusing the "Angel" section over at the Pit of Voles today (why? Guess I'm just a glutton for punishment), and I've found a bunch of misspellings just in summaries. I shudder to think what's in the stories themselves.
For example, I found this beauty today: "Worfam and heart." The sign for the law firm was in every single episode during the last season. Would it be too hard to actually read it? It's "Wolfram and Hart." "Hart" is capitalized. It's a name. References were made more than once during the course of the series to "the Wolf, the Ram, and the Hart." So why is it so hard to spell?
Tara Maclay. Doesn't seem that hard to spell, does it? She has more mini-trolls than any other character. Terra, Tarra, Tarah...and I don't even want to get into how they butcher her last name. Cordelia is a toughie, granted, as is Illyria, but they're not that hard, and I've set my spell check so that it catches if I misspell Illyria's name. Wesley Wyndam-Pryce. I always have to check to make sure I've spelled it right; and, no, it doesn't help that the transcript for "Lineage" at Buffyworld spells it "Price"...but it's not that difficult to look up. How many times have I seen Angel's name spelled "Angle"? Ugh. Too many. They're relying more on their spell check than they are on proofreading, and that's bad.
Poor Xander. Zander, Xandre, Zandre...the list goes on and on. Giles has his share. I've even seen Buffy's name misspelled. And Spike's. How hard is that? "Gunn" has two N's, people. And "Winifred" has one. "Connor" has two N's as well, and also two O's. It's not spelled "Conner," "Conor," or "Coner."
And other fandoms have the same problem. How many permutations of "McGonagall," "Voldemort," "Hermione," and "Dumbledore" are there? It took me all of two minutes to find the correct spellings, and I've never read any of the books or seen the movies. And I'll bet that anime fandoms have an even worse problem, if there are discrepancies between the animated series and the manga.
Argh.
For example, I found this beauty today: "Worfam and heart." The sign for the law firm was in every single episode during the last season. Would it be too hard to actually read it? It's "Wolfram and Hart." "Hart" is capitalized. It's a name. References were made more than once during the course of the series to "the Wolf, the Ram, and the Hart." So why is it so hard to spell?
Tara Maclay. Doesn't seem that hard to spell, does it? She has more mini-trolls than any other character. Terra, Tarra, Tarah...and I don't even want to get into how they butcher her last name. Cordelia is a toughie, granted, as is Illyria, but they're not that hard, and I've set my spell check so that it catches if I misspell Illyria's name. Wesley Wyndam-Pryce. I always have to check to make sure I've spelled it right; and, no, it doesn't help that the transcript for "Lineage" at Buffyworld spells it "Price"...but it's not that difficult to look up. How many times have I seen Angel's name spelled "Angle"? Ugh. Too many. They're relying more on their spell check than they are on proofreading, and that's bad.
Poor Xander. Zander, Xandre, Zandre...the list goes on and on. Giles has his share. I've even seen Buffy's name misspelled. And Spike's. How hard is that? "Gunn" has two N's, people. And "Winifred" has one. "Connor" has two N's as well, and also two O's. It's not spelled "Conner," "Conor," or "Coner."
And other fandoms have the same problem. How many permutations of "McGonagall," "Voldemort," "Hermione," and "Dumbledore" are there? It took me all of two minutes to find the correct spellings, and I've never read any of the books or seen the movies. And I'll bet that anime fandoms have an even worse problem, if there are discrepancies between the animated series and the manga.
Argh.
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