oh for crying out loud

[maderr]

I know I have no room to talk when it comes to homonyms and all, but seriously. Devil's Fire has a couple of good ones. She needs to knock her editors' heads around.

It's bated breath, not baited breath.

It's test his mettle, not test his metal.

Come on editor, get with the fucking program! All authors make those mistakes, either from not knowing or, like me, typing too fast for fingers to pick the right one - it's the job of the editor to catch shit like that. Snap to it!

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[mechante-fille.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, wrote my own rant about JL before reading this, but yes. Knock the editors around. Unless of course, there are such mistakes still in Sandstorm, in which case I advocate for gentle ribbing, as opposed to possible concussions. ^____^

[camden-rehab.livejournal.com]

^^ I like the idea of someone baiting their breath. Aww man, what if there was a character who could seduce people by breathing on them?

[mechante-fille.livejournal.com]

Haha, like those breath mint commercials. "I've been enjoying your breath since Third St." ^_____^ Except people would be, like, humping the guy's leg.

Ooh, or like Love Potion #9!! Did you see that movie? It was a breath spray that they used in that, too. Baited breath, indeed.

[raielchan.livejournal.com]

If you come to lunch on Saturday, you can talk about homonyms there :)

Good luck on your review.

[amiko-16.livejournal.com]

this has nothing to do with hononyms, really, but reading this entry made me laugh, because in the book I was reading last night, it was as if the writer went through and just did find/replace in Microsoft Word or something.
..And replaced random fucking words like with "watched" or "watch". SO CONFUSING. It happened like 4 times.
"..Saw her shoulders watch and frowned at her.." etc
WHAT.

[goldenwolfwitch.livejournal.com]

I still remember being so, so confused for the longest time as the author talked about the Angle of Death. Took me a while to figure out it was a typo. So many spelling mistakes in that book. Homonyms are always the funniest to laugh at. I love it when on message boards the administrator warns people to run their posts through a spell check to make sure we can all understand them, but then gives themselves a title like "reining angel". Or when a someone puts a "bridal" on their horse...

[stardance.livejournal.com]

Maybe she really meant baited breath and was too polite to offer her character a tic-tac.

And any reputable blacksmith tests his metal before selling a sword.