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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 02:32pm on 21/12/2007
Well that's good to know. (o:

I've never had a *lot* of criticism of the spelling, but on the assumption that everyone who actually bothers to write represents 10 to 100 non-feedbackers - and it's consistent that I'll get two or three otherwise glowing bits of FB with the qualifier somewhere in it. And as \I said to Bev, the one time I used US spelling, I got three emails asking why. ::snerk::

And since I'm reading through a story right now, it seemed a good time to ask the dread question. (o:

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posted by [identity profile] bumpkin-is.livejournal.com at 03:08pm on 21/12/2007
I tend to use an American spellchecker for the majority of my writing - and then of course it merrily freaks out when I speak Canadian into it.. *g* Lots of fun that, but seriously - I think the bigger thing to worry about is idiom, as others have said over spelling.

And frankly that goes both ways for me. I read a HP, Dr Who or Pros fic and I better be seeing the proper idioms in use there as much as if I read an American based show's fic - and even more so, idioms and turn of phrase that are based in the proper time frame for shows like M7's old west era. After that, spelling is rather inconsequential. And if that is all that the person can find to deride about your story.. then damn you must have done a really good job in writing it. Cause frankly when you say spelling is enough to yank you out of a story, you can't have been that invested to start with, IMHO.

keep penning, (how you are the most comfortable)
Marns
~pN

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posted by [personal profile] starwatcher at 04:28pm on 22/12/2007
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Do you know you can manually add your Canadian spelling to the American spell-checker? Right-click on a word like 'honour' or 'analyse' and select 'add to dictionary'. Then it won't be flagged whichever way you spell it -- but you'll know the alert is real, and go back to fix 'honuor', for instance.
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