resonant: Ray Kowalski (Due South) (Grammarwank)
resonant ([personal profile] resonant) wrote2004-03-22 08:26 pm
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Uh, no.

Also, today I encountered a HP sex scene in which the writer evidently meant "bollocks," but what she actually wrote was "bullocks."

It's quite a limber man who can have not just one but two bullocks between his legs.

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[identity profile] isiscolo.livejournal.com 2004-03-22 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I read that one. Nothing like livestock to dampen a mood.

[identity profile] resonant8.livejournal.com 2004-03-29 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, on the one hand you know it's probably what a friend of mine calls "a spill chicken error" (i.e. an American spell checker might very well flag the correct word and suggest the wrong one as a "correction"), but on the other hand, bullocks! Can't ... stop ... laughing ...

Moo!

[identity profile] nyn.livejournal.com 2004-03-22 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh dear god, BULLOCKS! bwahahahahhaha! oh, my.

::wipes eyes::

I just laughed at that for about five minutes. ow, my tummy.

...bullocks!

[identity profile] kelliem.livejournal.com 2004-03-22 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't suppose it was two Sandra clones... ;-D

[identity profile] amberfox.livejournal.com 2004-03-22 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
*giggles wildly* Yet another fine example of why having spell-check does not eliminate the need for a beta reader. ^_^

[identity profile] maryavatar.livejournal.com 2004-03-23 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Ow, mental image. Ow. Rampaging cattle with a little guy flailing along behind...

O.o
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[identity profile] naomichana.livejournal.com 2004-03-23 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Nora Roberts did that in a novel of hers I read once -- that is, used "Bullocks!" as an expletive put into the mouth of an Irish character. Your mental image is a lot better, though. ;)

[identity profile] lobelia321.livejournal.com 2004-03-23 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
*giggles*