10-second commentary on the latest Laurell K. Hamilton book

[geekchick]

Spellcheck and proofreading are your friends. Really.

"Diety". Sheesh. (It's not a one-off, it's spelled that way consistently.) And I think I remember seeing "weaponary" appear in there somewhere as well.

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Hey, that's a real word in my vocabulary!

[epilady.livejournal.com]

Friend: Hey, Michaela, I noticed you ate a lot of snacks during the holidays. How are you feeling now.

Me: Ugh, I feel diety. A few weeks and these extra pounds will be gone!

And everyone knows that a weaponary is where you store your spare M-16s.

Re: Hey, that's a real word in my vocabulary!

[geekchick]

So, a weaponary is kinda like a granary, but for ammunition? You'd think that living in one o'them thar gun-totin' Red States, I'd have known that. ;)

Re: Hey, that's a real word in my vocabulary!

[epilady.livejournal.com]

Yeah, totally. The right of the people to keep and store arms in phallic-shaped metal buildings shall not be denied. Yee-Haw!

bwahahahaha!

[geekchick]

Ow, ow, ow. My sides, they hurt.

I'm thinking that needs to be printed up on something. Not sure quite what yet though; maybe a thermos!

Re: bwahahahaha!

[epilady.livejournal.com]

Perfect.

[dawnmipb.livejournal.com]

Oh my God.

There are no words.

How did this get published without a careful readthrough? Is LKH another one of those like Anne Rice (hackspit) who thinks she's too good for an editor?

Even my fourteen-year-old son knows how to use spellcheck.

[geekchick]

Since it's so consistent, my suspicion is that somebody hit "accept" in their spellchecker when they shouldn't have.

[dionysia.livejournal.com]

I'm becoming more appalled at mainstream media's use of the apostrophe s when talking about a plural noun.

[rednikki.livejournal.com]

And the thing is, that's 100% her editor's fault.

This is exactly the reason I stopped reading the books. Well, one of 'em.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

I've never red this particular book or author, but I've seen other books with rampant typos and apostrophe-abuse. For these I blame over-reliance on automated spellcheckers rather than a human editor, but I've not NO explanation for "diety"!

[geekchick]

My guess is someone hit "accept all" in their spellchecker, it's not spelled correctly once in the entire book, so far as I could see.

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

Actually, the character likes to maintain a certain weight and practically worships the plan keeping 'em at the right weight - yes, they worship a dietary.

grin duck and Run!

[griffen.livejournal.com]

My pet peeve: "jewelery." It's "jewel-ry." Without the hyphen.

Sheesh!

[griffen.livejournal.com]

My roommate says to tell you that a "weaponary" is like a canary, but it's the one that flies over your car just after you finished washing it and leaves you a little bombgift on the windshield.

And Danny says: "Maybe the 'diety' is talking about Atkins?"

spell check elegy

[nminusone.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure Diety is when your god decides you need to drop a few pounds, and has (e.g.) you and your people take 40 in the desert, living on bugs and such.

No, really! It's in the really big dictionary, the kind that takes 2 people to lift. You know, the one they keep in the back dungeon, guarded by that scary reference librarian with 3 heads...

As for weaponary, she's probably just been hanging out on one of the militia channels, like #freemen_hax0rz or #lee7_freemen. Weaponary is just the colloquial adjective form, meaning 'through the use of weapons'. For instance "a weaponary solution", which means approximately the same thing as "a military solution", except without central control or legal authority. Though really most of those freemen types are into bombary solutions. And who *doesn't* like a good Bombary Curry...

Re: spell check elegy

[geekchick]

<Marcy>You're weird, sir.</Marcy>