samjohnsson ([info]samjohnsson) wrote in [info]fanficrants,
@ 2008-08-21 11:15:00
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Spelling F
Okay, I'm not usually the world's biggest ni-picker on spelling. And I can switch gears between American, Canadian, and British spelling systems without a problem.

But, for the love of all the gods in heaven, spell the characters' names right! Not sure? Check the show's website. Check IMDB, they're right more often than not. Google the actor's portfollio site. See what the rest of fandom is using. Because Stark* =/= Starke. The former is correct; the latter typo reads to my ear, in comparison, as "Starkie". Does. Not. Compute.

EDIT: and for those of you wondering, it is spelled correctly in the header.

I will give props, though. When you added that parasite -e, you embraced it and used it throughout the story (or at least the parts I scanned). A point for consistency.


*EDIT: name changed to assault the guilty fandom

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[info]razorzknight
2008-08-21 04:30 pm UTC (link)
Consistency is only good when it's not used wrong.

I mean, serial killers are consistent too.

But hell yes, word on that, I really abuse the back button when I see errors in names. And more often than not, said names are in the freaking title.

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[info]vivian_shaw
2008-08-21 09:07 pm UTC (link)
I have to wonder if the hysterical inability to use terminal E correctly in this case has some connection with the hysterical inability to use terminal E correctly in cases of "cloth" and "breath."

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[info]samjohnsson
2008-08-22 03:19 pm UTC (link)
I have no idea. In those cases, you need the terminal e to signal the lengthening of the medial vowel. In this case, the medial vowel is supposed to be short.

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[info]vivian_shaw
2008-08-22 06:22 pm UTC (link)
Which is why it has always puzzled me that people spell "breathe" without it when they don't mean "breath." The words sound different and are spelled differently, so I don't understand how they can get mixed up.

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[info]foxtrot_pasta
2008-08-21 10:29 pm UTC (link)
the world's biggest ni-picker

No, these knights would not, in fact, say Ni.

Sorry :P The only redeeming fact in this is that at least this isn't for a book fandom. I think that's probably cancelled out by the fact that Smith is probably one of the most common last names ever, though.

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[info]mickleditch
2008-08-22 12:04 pm UTC (link)
The 'y' form of Smith often does feature a superfluous 'e' on the end, though, I'll add - 'Smythe'. Doubtless stemming from times when names didn't have fixed spellings and were spelt however the particular person writing them cared to; many low-born families with social ambitions preferred to affect the spelling to look more genteel.

Having said that, you're quite right in saying that 'Smith' is by far the most common.

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[info]samjohnsson
2008-08-22 03:17 pm UTC (link)
lol. It's a post on spelling mistakes. Of course there's one in there.

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