Oops.

[miss_pryss]

Last night, I sat down to read an SGA story by a very respectable author. But I almost clicked the "back" button right away, because she misspelled John's name! She spelled it "Sheppard" like three times in the first paragraph.

I was shocked -- shocked! -- that someone so a) meticulous and b) experienced in SGA fandom would make that mistake. I shook my head in condescending wonder. What was the world coming to?

Then I thought, "but how is it spelled?"

And then I looked it up.

Yeah, oops.

Comments

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

Man, you had me confused there!

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

Imagine how *I* felt!

[copracat]

Fandom can fuck your shit up. I often read correct words and have a moment of cognitive dissonance when I wonder if they should be the (incorrect) homonym or other regular mispelling.

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

Those homonyms are confusing -- their hard to keep strait!

(ahahahahahahahahahahah i am to funny!)

[copracat]

It's like knowing a second language that is a slang or jargon or something (like I know the right term!) that you just automatically translate the idiom as you read.

Yes, you are funny, you loon.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

There's a special segment on a Firefly podcast where they explain that Shepherd Book is spelled S-H-E-P-H-E-R-D, like the noun, and S-H-E-P-P-A-R-D is a character on SGA. I found it amusing that that had to be clarified.

Hopefully this person didn't spell Jason Momoa's character "Ronan." That's a personal pet peeve of mine.

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

This person was utterly blameless in every way, I'm happy to report. :)

[megstuff.livejournal.com]

Funny.

I have the reverse problem now. I had to spell "shepherd" for some reason the other day and it took me three tries not to spell it sheppard (and it still looks wrong!).

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

Ha!

[harriet-spy.livejournal.com]

*points and LAUGHS*

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

I am so smart! S-M-R-T!