#WritersCoffeeClub Apr 24 Share a silly mistake you've made while writing.
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@bellinghman @snap2grid Libre Office (and Microsoft Word) both permit conditional search-and-replace (disguised as "change and find next"). Vi editors have had it all the way back to the 1970s, as has emacs.
@cstross @snap2grid Ah, that's probably what I was thinking of, yes
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I once changed a character's name from Allan to Ben, and later changed it back.
Reading through the manuscript, I found I had thus invented the Allanch seat.
@davidtheeviloverlord @cstross I remember an early harry potter book where one of the characters said something apartmently.
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@davidtheeviloverlord @cstross I remember an early harry potter book where one of the characters said something apartmently.
@landley @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross What, without using the suffix -um?
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@nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross I once got some copy back from a (lovely, brilliant) academic who'd been promoted to Professor, so she'd find-and-replaced every instance of 'Dr' in the document, inventing the word 'professoriven' in the process
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@landley @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross What, without using the suffix -um?
@jmax @landley @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross s/apartment/flat/
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@owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross another book did this and resulted in particitrousers...
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@owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross another book did this and resulted in particitrousers...
@quixoticgeek @owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross I'm sorry, but this is hilarious.
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@owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross Obviously, your immediate course of action is to create an #occutrousers entry on #UrbanDictionary.
Edit: It exists. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=occutrouser
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@owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross
I get the impression that occutrousers are a good thing, at least in this case. Though I can imagine that if different occutrousers replaced these it would be very bad.
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@nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross I once got some copy back from a (lovely, brilliant) academic who'd been promoted to Professor, so she'd find-and-replaced every instance of 'Dr' in the document, inventing the word 'professoriven' in the process
@alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross yu. I changed a character's name from Roy to Fred, and had him sailing up the Channel in a destfreder.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Apr 24 Share a silly mistake you've made while writing.
Character name changes. If for some reason you change the name of a character you *really* need to double-check that it's changed *everywhere*. Hint: regular expressions and global *conditional* search/replace are your tools. Also how to manage word stemming with regexps. Then triple-check *everything*. Otherwise—guaranteed—you'll flip a character's name in one paragraph and the internet will never let you forget it!
@cstross
The good old "dawizard" from D&D comes to mind.
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@quixoticgeek @owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross I'm sorry, but this is hilarious.
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@owent
Soup adverts all over again.
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@owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross
May I assume that instead of dollars the bill was payed in puppetars?
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@owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross
No no no; "trousers" are plural, so the next line should be "Are they going to fall down?"
<Cue custard pie fight>
<Ahem>
Sorry. 3:O(>
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@cstross
The good old "dawizard" from D&D comes to mind.
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@cstross
The good old "dawizard" from D&D comes to mind.
Hint for the unitiated: 4d6 dawizard. -
#WritersCoffeeClub Apr 24 Share a silly mistake you've made while writing.
Character name changes. If for some reason you change the name of a character you *really* need to double-check that it's changed *everywhere*. Hint: regular expressions and global *conditional* search/replace are your tools. Also how to manage word stemming with regexps. Then triple-check *everything*. Otherwise—guaranteed—you'll flip a character's name in one paragraph and the internet will never let you forget it!
I think the canonical example was a US newspaper - the New York Times, possibly - stating that the economy was "back in the African-American."
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@cstross
The good old "dawizard" from D&D comes to mind.
Hint for the unitiated: 4d6 dawizard. -
#WritersCoffeeClub Apr 24 Share a silly mistake you've made while writing.
Character name changes. If for some reason you change the name of a character you *really* need to double-check that it's changed *everywhere*. Hint: regular expressions and global *conditional* search/replace are your tools. Also how to manage word stemming with regexps. Then triple-check *everything*. Otherwise—guaranteed—you'll flip a character's name in one paragraph and the internet will never let you forget it!
@cstross Always check for the word boundaries
