Comments on The Rejectionist: One of These Words Is Not Like The Other

Madam, you make one's face hurt for the best o...

2010-02-17T11:04:20.496-05:00

Madam, you make one's face hurt for the best of reasons.

Thank you - this was hysterical. As a bonus, it r...

2010-01-13T13:01:18.031-05:00

Thank you - this was hysterical. As a bonus, it reminded me of the thank-you we got last year for a wedding gift of "crystal bowels." Happy times here.

Like I used to always say... If reeding you'r...

2010-01-12T12:55:12.048-05:00

Like I used to always say...

If reeding you're techs t'is all-most tore-chore fore pea-pull, pleas bee shore two ewes thee rye-towards too right hear inn thee four-umms; its aweigh too lettuce no ewer knot uh more-ron. It snot sew vary harred two due atoll. Thing-queue.

okay, I confess. My heroine had an organism today ...

2010-01-11T16:37:16.294-05:00

okay, I confess. My heroine had an organism today during sex.

I desperately want to title this post, "Homon...

2010-01-11T12:42:07.518-05:00

I desperately want to title this post, "Homonym or homonumb." Perhaps I will link to you and do just that. :)

I would love to sneer, but I once submitted a roma...

2010-01-11T09:48:36.738-05:00

I would love to sneer, but I once submitted a romance where I substituted viral for virile in describing the hero. Not QUITE the effect I was going for.

This made my day. And Disgruntled Bear and Pamela ...

2010-01-10T15:52:27.894-05:00

This made my day. And Disgruntled Bear and Pamela Hammonds, you had me in tears laughing. Really, I needed this tonight. Thanks.

Oh, well said, Rejectionist. Please, take a bough....

2010-01-10T00:20:54.789-05:00

Oh, well said, Rejectionist. Please, take a bough.

Your funny.

2010-01-09T23:40:32.398-05:00

Your funny.

My favorites are from the PublishAmerica forums, w...

2010-01-09T22:35:21.548-05:00

My favorites are from the PublishAmerica forums, where their victims occasionally proclaim that they are newly-published "authers" and "authurs."

Quote: "For what it's worth, we cut y'...

2010-01-09T18:28:10.989-05:00

Quote: "For what it's worth, we cut y'all a lot of slack in the typo department."

Nice to know! After many spelling checks of my stuff the odd mistake might still hide. A form of word-blindness through familiarity, I guess.

:-)

Scene from Tom Sharpe's "Wilt", wher...

2010-01-09T11:47:35.705-05:00

Scene from Tom Sharpe's "Wilt", where world-weary teacher (Wilt) is being questioned by rather dim policeman...

Policeman (angrily): Are you inferring I'm an idiot?

Wilt (wearily): No. I'm implying you're an idiot. You are inferring it.

I'd just like to thank Disgruntled Bear and Pa...

2010-01-09T10:40:30.862-05:00

I'd just like to thank Disgruntled Bear and Pamela Hammonds for starting my morning with such lovely imagery! :P

You know, another thing I see a LOT, often when critting for beginning or intermediate authors but occasionally in print and yesterday in an AP story (!) is people using words that *don't* sound like the right word but just obviously don't mean what they think. For example, "surly" used to mean "sympathetic".

I once read: He put his hands on her waste. ewwww...

2010-01-09T10:34:05.065-05:00

I once read: He put his hands on her waste. ewwww

Disk vs. dick. Several years ago, I had a profess...

2010-01-09T10:20:30.478-05:00

Disk vs. dick. Several years ago, I had a professor who said we could submit a paper as a print-out or on a floppy DISK.

She didn't use the right word, though.

hehe - LOVE every one of these.

2010-01-09T10:08:51.250-05:00

hehe - LOVE every one of these.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ Try...

2010-01-09T09:46:51.379-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OonDPGwAyfQ

Try this on for size--performance poetry about just this topic. One of my faves.

I'm pretty sure I've read shaw in a book s...

2010-01-09T08:14:18.229-05:00

I'm pretty sure I've read shaw in a book somewhere. And not as a last name, but as in healer. Now I'm going to go nuts trying to remember the book.

"You keep using that word. I do not think it...

2010-01-09T00:18:58.375-05:00

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Wow! These crack me up completely! Kind of like Le...

2010-01-08T21:51:25.338-05:00

Wow! These crack me up completely! Kind of like Leno's Headline segments :) Thanks for the laugh!

I have to admit. I spelled barely like barley thr...

2010-01-08T21:32:00.657-05:00

I have to admit. I spelled barely like barley through my whole manuscript. Luckily I believe in proofreading. Great advice!

And whatever you do, never accidentally leave the ...

2010-01-08T20:15:55.135-05:00

And whatever you do, never accidentally leave the "o" out of "count" when you mention a word count. I did this once while I was querying and the agent was not happy with me.

2010-01-08T20:13:19.354-05:00

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"Their twisted mountaintop tale of love and e...

2010-01-08T20:03:14.604-05:00

"Their twisted mountaintop tale of love and eating proper roughage.."

AHAHAHAHAHA!

Lucy, you rock ;).

I collect malapropisms. Love 'em. These are all very fine specimens.

I have a friend who's an excellent poet and writer, really . . . and on her tag line on her blog banner she refers to herself as a "writer chic". It took me a year to work up the courage to politely correct her, but I probably shouldn't have because she didn't change the banner and I'm not sure we're still friends. (I wish you had an "anonymous" option for posting comments.)