Octarine 15: English

[bookblather]

Author: Kat
Title: English
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Octarine 15 (Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind.)
Supplies and Materials: Miniature, novelty beads (this image), brush (parse)
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Summary: Gina vs. bad grammar.
Warnings: none.
Notes: Okay, back to bed with me. This is what happens when you check the supplies right before going to sleep.


Gina had always been good with words, and she did know that it was unfair to expect everyone to have the same competency that she did. Most mistakes were easy to understand. English was an awful language to learn, first language or not.

But some things just drove her to a tooth-grinding, red-seeing rage. She was a senior editor; she should only be seeing the best work an author could possibly put on her desk. Every typo, every it's/its confusion, every wrong use of you're...

Ivy always knew that she'd been editing too long when her eye started to twitch.

Comments

[finch]

You're writing is always excellent. Its my favorite!

[bookblather]

You are a terrible person and you made me flinch twice. I hope you're happy. :D

Thank you!

[finch]

XD Extremely happy.

[kay_brooke]

Hee! Same, Gina, same.

[bookblather]

I KNOW RIGHT.

Thank you!

[k_a_webb]

The worst part is when I pick up my own bad grammar. Going back through something to find one of those issues... it makes me grumpy, but I know I'm doing it because I'm typing faster than my brain is working.

It's when I see things like that on Facebook that I wish I could grammar check everyone. One of the new things I've seen is 'thankyou' and I just want to tell everyone it's two works.

[bookblather]

Ugh, I knooooow. You see it and you're just like, "facepalm."

Thank you!

[greenling]

Everyone I have ever known who habitually and unironically uses multiple exclamation marks has been a horrible, hateful human being. It's probably a coincidence, but I'm just saying.

When your paying job is to nitpick people, it must be so much worse. More work!

[bookblather]

Terry Pratchett would agree with you, so you're probably completely right.

So much worse, yes. Thank you!

[novel_machinist]

Gina needs to lay off the coffee a bit I think?

[bookblather]

Nah, just bad grammar by people who should know better is one of those things that irritates her beyond all reason. She doesn't have many, so she gets away with it.

Thank you!