peeve peeve peeve

[kaigou]

1. Get the names right. Go with the official decision, accept that Sunrise or Square-Enix or whomever gets the final say because, hey, they OWN the damn characters (if at least in part), and shut the hell up. It's Ed, not Edo, Al, not Aru, Heero, not Hiiro; Hilde, not Hirde; Relena, not Reylena or even Relina. (Although I must say that "Liza Hawkeye" seems far more likely than the official "Riza Hawkeye," but hey, there you go.)

Fandom-specific to GW: if you're going to insist on mispelling names that have had official spellings for almost a decade, at least be consistent. Prefer Hiiro? Fine, then stop misspelling Trowa's name the official way, and use the original, intended version, pre-butchered romanji: Trois.

2. Would of, could of. Please, stop. It's 'would have', 'could have', and I don't care if it's colloquial. Use it in dialogue, then, if you must, but in narrative, please observe the grammar of this language and stop making my eyeballs bleed.

3. The drug is H-E-R-O-I-N and the female lead is H-E-R-O-I-N-E. Confuse them, and you don't get bathos, drama, or even pathos, unless you mean that strange sense of pathetic enjoyment as I snort soda out my nose for the idiotic misspelling.

4. You will not win an award, not if I and the rest of the spellchecking world have any say in it, if you cannot even TRY to use a spellchecker.

5. Could we please kill the phrase, "the shorter man" now? Or better yet, fifteen minutes ago already? Every time an author says, "the shorter man", I think of that red-headed guy from Willow. And believe me, that's the last visual you want when reading smut. Really.*

6. Insert your own peeves here. Go on. You know you want to.




* this is why I hate some of my oldest fic. Yes, we learn from our mistakes, but do you really have enough time in your life to make every mistake just to learn from it? Save time, learn from mine. Just use the (accepted) character names and be done with it!

Comments

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

I can accept the butchered ones like Riza, Heero, and Trowa, only if I take them as Not An English Name -- let's not get into the absolute unlikelihood of anyone being named Five Wings (WuFei), after all -- but instead as The Way Those Idiotic Distribution Companies Decided Would Be Most Palatable For Western Fans.

(I remain baffled as to how they got Quatre right, and Trois wrong, when I would've expected it'd be Quatre and Trois, or Katorah and Trowa, if you went by the anglicized version of the Japanese pronounciation of French numbers. Ugh!)

Let's not get into the way they pronounce things in dubs, or I'll be here all night bemoaning InUuuYASHa and KaGOme and SasUkay. It burrrrrrnsss.

[mikkeneko.livejournal.com]

The one that always burns me is NaROOto. But what can you do.

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

Yeah. CP was arguing for 'Hiiro' as what should've been teh official spelling. My theory is that they chose 'heero' for three reasons: a) to draw a thin bead on 'hero', b) to emphasize the long 'e' with a bit more emphasis than if it were spelled with only one 'e', and c) knowing that 'hiiro' would probably have caused bazillions of fangirls to not get the 'ii' combination and pronounce it HI-roe instead.

The notion of a bunch of fangirls screaming HIGHro! just makes my brain bleed out my ears.

Myself, I've never managed to get naruto pronounced perfectly, and I've even gone back and listened to the d/led eps on full volume. Sakura says his name like /naar-tou/ while Kakashi and Sasuke say it more like /NAH-rue-tou/. I figure if I get somewhere between the two, and kinda mumble at the same time, it's close enough for government work. Sigh.

[christeos-pir.livejournal.com]

Put the emFAHsis on the first silLAHbull and you'll be most of the way there.