a little note

[tommygirl]

Dear fanfiction writers,

For the love of God, "lose" and "loose" are very different words. Dean would not be upset if he looses Sam. I'm not even sure what that means. The word is lose. One "O" - now if you wanted to say "Dean decided to loosen the ropes pinning Sam to the bed" that would work.

No love,

Tommygirl

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My sister and I rented the first two discs of Prison Break to get ready for Monday night and new episodes. I may or may not have also rented "She's the Man" with Amanda Bynes because I'm a dork.

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Am highly depressed that there are only two more episodes of Entourage for the season. I think this means y'all should write me some fic. I think there should be some Jensen Ackles/Vincent Chase fic out there. (My birthday is in 10 days, wink, wink. Hee.)

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Off to do some writing until my sister and I start watching PB. So very behind.

Comments

[mahaliem.livejournal.com]

For the love of God, "lose" and "loose" are very different words.

Amen! That's my pet peeve. I've even seen it in an MSN article on the internet and in a financial advice column on the internet.

[medie]

Well, if Dean gets Sam all liquored up and turns him loose on a bunch of girls in Vegas or some such? *G* Craps tables maybe?

[lyra-wing.livejournal.com]

some Jensen Ackles/Vincent Chase fic

Is that an official request? *cracks knuckles*

You know me and birthdays... :)

[nam-jai.livejournal.com]

I'll second that amen. That one drives me nuts. It doesn't even have the amusement value I get whenever I see someone use "grizzly" when they mean "grisly." Because then at least I can imagine rampaging bears.

[jellicle.livejournal.com]

Dear fanfiction writers,

For the love of God, "lose" and "loose" are very different words. Dean would not be upset if he looses Sam. I'm not even sure what that means. The word is lose. One "O" - now if you wanted to say "Dean decided to loosen the ropes pinning Sam to the bed" that would work.


This is one of my biggest peeves. I'm not an English native speaker, but the difference is obvious to me and the quantity of 'writers' who keep confusing these two words is alarming.

[tweetyiscool29.livejournal.com]

I do the lost/loose thing all the time. One of my many weakensses. Though I've been improving lately...I think.

Little mistakes like that are somewhat annoying when done constantly, though.

[snapes-angel.livejournal.com]

For the love of God, "lose" and "loose" are very different words. Dean would not be upset if he looses Sam. I'm not even sure what that means. The word is lose. One "O" - now if you wanted to say "Dean decided to loosen the ropes pinning Sam to the bed" that would work.

Hear, hear!

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

You would own my soul, darling. I would seriously love it if you wrote some Jensen Ackles/Vincent Chase.

[lyra-wing.livejournal.com]

Okay, hon! To give fair warning, I've only seen season 1 of Entourage. But I shall do my best! *puts on game face*

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

That's just sad that a professional makes that mistake. Do people not have editors anymore?

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

Hee-hee. That could actually be interesting...Dean setting Sam loose on Vegas.

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

You are the most awesome of awesome people!

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, and it's a problem that runs rampant in SPN fandom especially. so many stories that could've been so great if only there weren't careless mistakes.

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

It drives me so crazy. SO crazy. Like if you know you have a habit of confusing the words when you write do a find/replace on your story when you're done. That's what I do for the your/you're.

[medie]

Imagine the look on John's face when he has to bail them out before someone realizes Dean's supposed to be a crazy serial killer type *G*

Either that or they're at that place from the tv show Las Vegas and Dean's hitting on all the girls while Ed & co try to scare the truth out of them *G*

[snapes-angel.livejournal.com]

If you remember "you are" for "you're", it can help (reading it over for editing): if it doesn't make sense in context, then it's the wrong word, lol.