On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 02:03  PM, Richard Lawson wrote:

Just read the story. How come no one ever gives C&C
but yells about my titles? I'm SICK of it!

Just wanted to comment on this because it has an impact not just on 
you,
Aishuu, but to all aspiring writers.

If I see a misspelled word in the title, that means the author didn't 
care
enough about his work to even correct obvious spelling errors.  If the
author put so little thought into the title, the obvious conclusion is 
that
he also put little thought into the story.  As such, I won't usually 
bother
to read stories with misspelled titles.

"Sceance" is incorrect, in French or English; you got thousands of hits
because thousands of people misspelled it.  Heck, do a search on 
"mispell"
and you'll get thousands of hits; the correct spelling is still 
"misspell".

This is how alternate spellings HAPPEN. "Color" became an accepted 
alternate spelling for no better reason than that thousands of people, 
led by Noah Webster, misspelled "Colour". it's worth noting that, as i 
write this, "Colour" gets the red underline treatment where "Color" 
does not. there is _no_ valid authority to say that something is 
correct or incorrect in an evolving language _except_ perhaps the 
search result counts.


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