#WritersCoffeeClub Apr 24 Share a silly mistake you've made while writing.
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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!
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
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@owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross Is there any course for refrock?
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@owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross "buttbuttination of the ambbuttador"…
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@owent That’s it, I’m calling the things covering my legs occutrousers from now on.
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@owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross "buttbuttination of the ambbuttador"…
@blotosmetek @owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross I heard about the book that replaced "mage" with Wizard" and someone ended up gazing at a painted iwizard...
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@owent That’s it, I’m calling the things covering my legs occutrousers from now on.
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@cstross
The good old "dawizard" from D&D comes to mind.
Hint for the unitiated: 4d6 dawizard.@towo@chaos.social @cstross@wandering.shop wait, it's 4 d6?
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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.
@Retreival9096 @owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @cstross
Occutrousers are what the well-dressed octopus gentleman wears.
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@owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross
It's only slightly annoying when unoccutrousers fall down, but mortifying when one's occutrousers fall down. -
@owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross
It's only slightly annoying when unoccutrousers fall down, but mortifying when one's occutrousers fall down.@dragonfrog @owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @cstross
If an octopus gentleman's occutrousers fall down, everyone can see his tentacles!
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@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.
@robparsons @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross And this is how a certain right-wing newspaper came to run an article about the American athlete, Tyson Homosexual.
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@owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross it's the wrong occutrousers, and they've gone wrong!
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@owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross Clear case of idiot editor. Because one obviously can be space sensitive and only replace " pants " with " trousers " and th[e]n this should be no problem.
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@cstross Always check for the word boundaries
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@owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross another book did this and resulted in particitrousers...
@quixoticgeek @owent @alicemcalicepants @nullcolaship @davidtheeviloverlord @cstross
Someoneneeds to pad theirsearch terms with appropriate whitespace (hi, @edwinb - who really understands whitespace).
