unsolicited advice, knowing your words
Jul. 26th, 2010 04:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threeplusfireDear reviewers, if you ever want anyone to take you seriously you need to get your funny words and sayings down correctly. Otherwise, people are just going to point and laugh. Here's a couple common mistakes you should avoid:
It's not "hammy down" it is hand me down. Good people might mistake your used car for a breakfast sandwich and that would just lead to unhappiness for everyone!
It's not "walla!" but "voila." (I'll even forgive you for leaving out the accent mark.)
When talking about scents, you want to say "reeked" instead of "wreaked" unless you opened that bottle of perfume and a Spartan sprang out to smash your chairs and rip up your carpets and skewered your lap dog on a spear.
It's not "hammy down" it is hand me down. Good people might mistake your used car for a breakfast sandwich and that would just lead to unhappiness for everyone!
It's not "walla!" but "voila." (I'll even forgive you for leaving out the accent mark.)
When talking about scents, you want to say "reeked" instead of "wreaked" unless you opened that bottle of perfume and a Spartan sprang out to smash your chairs and rip up your carpets and skewered your lap dog on a spear.
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Date: 2010-07-26 09:44 pm (UTC)...as a gag gift. For someone I don't like. BUT STILL.
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Date: 2010-07-26 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-07-26 10:06 pm (UTC)We should send a bottle of Eau de Sparta to the girlfriend of that dude in your guild who causes so much trouble. :P
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Date: 2010-07-26 10:08 pm (UTC)Bah. Eau de Spartan isn't good enough!
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Date: 2010-07-26 09:45 pm (UTC)"Viola!"
It's like someone's getting really excited about a musical instrument when that really isn't the case at all...
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Date: 2010-07-26 10:05 pm (UTC)But it makes me think of excitable viola players. That should be a fic challenge.
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Date: 2010-07-26 10:02 pm (UTC)I love your posts.
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Date: 2010-07-28 10:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-26 10:10 pm (UTC)My biggest pet peeves in this area are "intensive purposes" and "suppose to." ARGH! They make my eyes bleed.
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Date: 2010-07-26 10:42 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-07-26 11:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-26 11:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-26 11:38 pm (UTC)Anyhoo, I was wondering if, what with you joining the Good Ship Excolo, and having some mutual friends and interests if you would like to be friends. Don't worry if not - I won't, like, poison Arkady with an evil fish or something. ;)
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Date: 2010-07-26 11:40 pm (UTC)The Good Ship Excolo and it's catch of evil fish! :D Edit - yes and friends. Friends are good, even if they come with bearing evil fish.
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Date: 2010-07-26 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-27 04:13 pm (UTC)"There was no pacific moment, the whole show was excellent"
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Date: 2010-07-27 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-27 04:19 pm (UTC)http://macnugget.org/pullet-surprise
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Date: 2010-07-27 07:49 pm (UTC)