unsolicited advice, knowing your words

[threeplusfire]

Dear 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.

Comments

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Oooo yes. That is also a good one.

We should send a bottle of Eau de Sparta to the girlfriend of that dude in your guild who causes so much trouble. :P

[fiatincantatum.livejournal.com]

Tempting! She's still hanging around our public channel (he hasn't logged in since he got hacked a month or so ago) and making "oh, I'm not allowed to talk to you guys or you'll get in trouble" noises. And she's now the guildmaster of a guild whose name features the words "sad panda" in it.

Bah. Eau de Spartan isn't good enough!