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I love slash fanfic, but sometimes reading it gives me a headache. So I'm going to gripe a little here. And it's all because Mercury is retrograde, I'm sure.
Erection only has ONE r.
Discreet and Discrete are two different words and have completely different meanings
Prostate and Prostrate are also two different words with completely different meanings.
And along those same lines, ditto with peaked, peeked and piqued.
It's not 'the cock' or 'the hand' or 'the mouth' it's his, or [insert slash-object's name here]'s. (Unless, of course, you are talking about a male chicken, or a dismembered body part...)
Their and there and they're are not all spelled the same way nor do they mean the same thing.
As I have said many times before, when you are talking about the site of the human umbilicus, it's navEL not navAL. Naval relates to ships, navel relates to bodies and oranges.
Now, for things spell-check WILL catch:
It's unfortunately not unfortunantly.
It's speeches not speaches.
It's poignant, not poignent.
Spell-check is our friend. Use it.
Erection only has ONE r.
Discreet and Discrete are two different words and have completely different meanings
Prostate and Prostrate are also two different words with completely different meanings.
And along those same lines, ditto with peaked, peeked and piqued.
It's not 'the cock' or 'the hand' or 'the mouth' it's his, or [insert slash-object's name here]'s. (Unless, of course, you are talking about a male chicken, or a dismembered body part...)
Their and there and they're are not all spelled the same way nor do they mean the same thing.
As I have said many times before, when you are talking about the site of the human umbilicus, it's navEL not navAL. Naval relates to ships, navel relates to bodies and oranges.
Now, for things spell-check WILL catch:
It's unfortunately not unfortunantly.
It's speeches not speaches.
It's poignant, not poignent.
Spell-check is our friend. Use it.
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