Grammar. Why is it so hard???
Apr. 21st, 2008 09:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
azraelz_angelGrammar. Why is it so hard????
Commas, semi-colons, oh my!
My head hurt already this morning and now it hurts more.
I have an issue with a particular author at Twisting the Hellmouth. And by issue, let me clarify that to she has a horrific sense of grammar, sentence structure and spelling, and when I quarantine her stories she gets pissy and feels like she is being personally attacked. And yes, I will be the first to admit that I do look at her account to see if she has posted anything new, and if it violates the site's grammatical rules I then quarantine it.
But one would think that she would figure out punctuation and sentence structure. And she has "improved" with the help of betas, but her betas aren't catching the mistakes either and I don't understand that. What is the point of a beta if they don't help you???
And now she has deleted all her stories from the site and I thought that would be the end, but then she reposted one story. And the prologue...it has punctuation problems.
Examples (that I am making up on the fly here rather than copy her work - again):
Jane walks; the dog.
Jane walks the dog ; and sees her neighbor walking his dog.
Jane wanted to walk the dog ,but she couldn't find the leash.
Jane wanted to walk the dog but, she couldn't find the leash.
All four of those sentences are clearly made up but the grammatical use of semi-colons and commas is INCORRECT in each and every one of them.
I think I need to take some Tylenol. I feel like sitting down and betaing her work to show her exactly what she is missing. However, I'm fairly certain that my efforts will be a waste of time (mine and hers) and fall upon deaf ears.
Commas, semi-colons, oh my!
My head hurt already this morning and now it hurts more.
I have an issue with a particular author at Twisting the Hellmouth. And by issue, let me clarify that to she has a horrific sense of grammar, sentence structure and spelling, and when I quarantine her stories she gets pissy and feels like she is being personally attacked. And yes, I will be the first to admit that I do look at her account to see if she has posted anything new, and if it violates the site's grammatical rules I then quarantine it.
But one would think that she would figure out punctuation and sentence structure. And she has "improved" with the help of betas, but her betas aren't catching the mistakes either and I don't understand that. What is the point of a beta if they don't help you???
And now she has deleted all her stories from the site and I thought that would be the end, but then she reposted one story. And the prologue...it has punctuation problems.
Examples (that I am making up on the fly here rather than copy her work - again):
Jane walks; the dog.
Jane walks the dog ; and sees her neighbor walking his dog.
Jane wanted to walk the dog ,but she couldn't find the leash.
Jane wanted to walk the dog but, she couldn't find the leash.
All four of those sentences are clearly made up but the grammatical use of semi-colons and commas is INCORRECT in each and every one of them.
I think I need to take some Tylenol. I feel like sitting down and betaing her work to show her exactly what she is missing. However, I'm fairly certain that my efforts will be a waste of time (mine and hers) and fall upon deaf ears.
