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Pet Peeves v.11

Discussion in 'Fanfic Discussion' started by Dark Syaoran, Jun 10, 2016.

  1. ScottPress

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    You forgot to add a random date way before any of the band members' birth dates to go along with nonsensical punctuation.
     
  2. James

    James Unspeakable

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    I’ve noticed usage of Onomatopoeia in a couple of stories lately, and I have to be honest, I don’t understand. Does the author genuinely believe that 5 “krakbooms” will… improve the story? Or the graaaauggggh?

    Edit: I remembered one even more horrifying example, and that was some harry/tonks story (ho and the rotfang conspiracy? Smth like that), where they were fooling around and the author used onomatopoeia for the upcoming orgasm, and it was so something horrible like “aeiiaiiieaii”
     
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  3. Heather_Sinclair

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    Ugh, it's KRACKATHOOM, not krakboom. Maybe that's why they did it. You only really need one KRACKATHOOM, and if you misspell it, it's just weak?

    And you are correct, just one "Arrgghhh!" is more than enough. No "Graaauugghh!" is needed.
     
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