OMG. Stop making Dean a crap speller, people.
Stop hurting me.
Tracy: Well-- That call -- That call means you just murdered me. Mal: No, son. You murdered yourself. I just carried the bullet a while.
'The Message'
Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?
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§ ita § - Jun 05, 2010 2:06:40 pm PDT #10248 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Amy - Jun 05, 2010 2:15:34 pm PDT #10249 of 30002
Because books.
Fic, I assume? Dean is smart, people!
I can't believe we're essentially done with the S3 deathmatch. Only two seasons left! And it's only been three weeks since hellatus started!
We'll need some other distractions soon.
Beverly - Jun 05, 2010 2:15:42 pm PDT #10250 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I know. I'm still a little pissed over the GED thing.
Be my brother again.
P.M. Marc - Jun 05, 2010 2:27:01 pm PDT #10251 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
For the record, my Idiot Younger Brother has a ridiculously high IQ, a GED, and a complete inability to spell.
(Come to think of it, so did Psycho Ex 1.0.)
Smart and crap spelling/lack of a high school diploma are not mutually exclusive.
That said, we've seen Dean's note. The spelling looked fine.
Amy - Jun 05, 2010 2:29:40 pm PDT #10252 of 30002
Because books.
As did his handwriting!
Somehow I imagine Sam has really messy doctor's scrawl.
Anne W. - Jun 05, 2010 2:49:23 pm PDT #10253 of 30002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Season 3, Round 5
Be my brother again...
Easy, easy choice this time.
§ ita § - Jun 05, 2010 2:49:29 pm PDT #10254 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He was caps happy, but it was perfectly legible and seemed well spelt. So there, haters.
It always seems to be a way to highlight a difference between his brain and Sam's. Sam will text properly, and Dean won't even be shorthand, he'll be crappy. Pfft.
Cass - Jun 05, 2010 2:57:10 pm PDT #10255 of 30002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Sam will text properly, and Dean won't even be shorthand, he'll be crappy. Pfft.
And, frankly? I'd think *Sam* would be the one more likely to go for text speak and emoticons and failure to punctuate. Because he was more immersed in that culture at college.
I see your pfft and support it in email.
Beverly - Jun 05, 2010 4:13:06 pm PDT #10256 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I pfft and support as well.
The comment about the GED was toward the writers, not the GED. Perfectly cromulent people, etc. To me it was lazy shorthand, and I'd rather they not have gone there. Certainly not without explaining it might have been that or another year of school because of absence due to injury, or something unavoidable, rather than (possibly) implying Dean couldn't function well enough in a structured school environment to stay and graduate. Because that rings untrue, at least to me. Maybe it doesn't to others, though.
Amy - Jun 05, 2010 4:17:53 pm PDT #10257 of 30002
Because books.
rather than (possibly) implying Dean couldn't function well enough in a structured school environment to stay and graduate. Because that rings untrue, at least to me.
It doesn't to me for a few reasons. Dean is all about bucking everyone's authority but John's. And that would make it very easy for him to say, "Screw this, lemme just take the test," when they're moving to yet another school, with more new teachers to deal with, etc.
I don't get the sense he ever had illusions of college for himself, by the time he was high school age, and I think much more important milestones for him (rather than a cap and gown ceremony) would have been when he killed his first creature on his own, or when John gave him the Impala, stuff like that.