Yer Mother's a wee bit annoyed

[roxy]

Behold!



Bear



Bare

Don't use bare when you mean bear! As in "Dean could not bear the guilt. Any guilt. All the guilt. Guilt over all the things." He does not bare the weight of all that guilt.

I mean it. Stop doing that.

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Well, it's not *only* spell check. If you type "definitely," spell check will let it go, because it's a word (and even, usually, the right word). Where spell check gets you into trouble is when you type "definatly." The first word that comes up when you right-click the red squiggles is "defiantly," and if you have auto-correct on, that's what you get. But if you spelled it right in the first place, it wouldn't come up. :)

My peeve is people who are obviously trying to approximate things they've heard out loud but never seen written. A classic example, dating back to the fanzines of the '60s and '70s, or so I'm told, is "torcher." (As in, "The Klingons decided to torcher Captain Kirk.") The one that's especially bugging me right now, though, is "one in the same." Seriously, people? If you're going to write something, read something!

--Jessica

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omg, I read "torcher" all puzzled like, trying to remember when the Klingons set Kirk on fire and then howled with laughter!


One in the same!! You're right, it's all over the damn place lately and driving me *crazy*! It doesn't even make the slightest bit of sense!

I agree so hard--read, people, damn it! Pick up a book and learn something!