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Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
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There was discussion of "eggcorns" a little ways up, and I was brainwormed with the word until I saw The Eggcorn Database.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled Batslash.
edited because I spend five minutes looking up the formatting and skip a double "the"
Welcome, Ailleann!
Not to mention the botched dialogue attributions.
Okay, now I feel bad -- from her LJ info, she's not a native English speaker.
But still!
The Eggcorn Database.
Hurray, more language nerddom! Not that it doesn't make me sad every time someone refers to a chaise longue as a chaise lounge (and pronounces it that way), but I think I have lost the battle on that one.
I think I have lost the battle on that one.
Long ago, my friend. But it bugs my father, too, so you're in good company.
I did not know this! I've been totally using it incorrectly. Also, thought "banal" rhymed with "anal" Because I have a "baNAL" streak and I know more words than I ever use.
I think I have lost the battle on that one.
I spell it correctly but sometimes say it wrong. Not that it comes up that much.