REC: The Days of the Week

[brainofck]

I have been reading Days of the Week over breakfast.

Excellent! Funny! Very well written. Refreshingly mocking take on the cliches of Stargate slash. Maybe a little crude for me, but I don't think any worse that The Diaries' obsession with Jack's piles.

And it contains the new, trendy typo.

"I feel rather than see the shutter that passes over him. "

A shutter is a covering you put over a window to protect it from bad weather. Or a part of a camera that controls how the film is exposed to light. :) The necessary word is obviously shudder.

This is very odd, as the writer is very good.

I had never seen this typo until about three months ago. Now almost every story I read has it. I wonder if there's some bug in some new version of Word or something...

Comments

[angiepen.livejournal.com]

But maybe I'm too jaded. :)

Doubtful. My guess is that people read some influential fic written by a writer who was (otherwise) clearly very good (maybe even the one you just recced) and saw shudder spelled "shutter" and thought, "Eek, I've been misspelling it all this time!" and rather than pick up a friggin' dictionary to make sure, they just start using "shutter." Fan writers have a truly amazing capacity for pooling their ignorance and passing it around like brownies. [sigh]

Angie, Cynicism-B-We

[starting-gate.livejournal.com]

I am overcome with icon adoration!
You're ikon is sew funy!

Ahem, yes, I will agree with you as soon as I finish laughing!

[angiepen.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I got it from someone who didn't remember whom she got it from, but if you want it you can have it too. :D

Angie

[starting-gate.livejournal.com]

*grabs*

Thank you!