Second funniest typo of the week

[valis2]

The werewolf prowled the ramshackle shack. “I should kill him with my bear hands…”

Aw...your weasel hands would be so much funnier!

Isn't it always the way, though? You painstakingly comb through your fic, your beta does as well, and yet still, something sneaks through. *sigh*

Comments

[ellid.livejournal.com]

It's like the old joke about the boyfoot bear with teaks of Chan.....

[valis2.livejournal.com]

hee! I was amused, at the least...

[florence-craye.livejournal.com]

Tee hee hee! Shouldn't they be wolf hand, though? ;)

[valis2.livejournal.com]

haha! But weasel is such a funny word...couldn't help myself.

[avus.livejournal.com]

My favorite "gaff" was verbal, not written. No one who knows me will allow me to sightread anything outloud in public. Back in my musicology grad days, I did a Gregorian chant service for an Episcopal "mission" of sorts. One day, the priest got stuck for someone to read one of the lessons, and he shoved it at me, at the service, in a setting where I couldn't refuse.

Gamely, I proceeded. I was doing fine until I got to the line: "the bowls of the righteous are overflowing", and I read, "the bowels of the righteous are overflowing".

Naturally, I proceeded, as any experienced performer would, as if nothing unusual had happened. Mirabile dictu, no collapsed. But I do remember, when I got to the end of the lesson, looking up at the priest & daring him to say anything, as I concluded, traditionally, with

avus: This is the very word of the Lord.
priest: Thanks be to God.

Needless to say, I was never asked to read again.

A bear hand indeed.

[jaelle-n-gilla.livejournal.com]

Yeah, those are the ones that not even a spell checker or grammar help will find :-)
I've had them so often, and as a non-native speaker you have even less of an eye for those. The word looks alright, and that's all you need *g*

[valis2.livejournal.com]

hee!!

I'm horrible with mangling words as well. I don't think I learned the rules of pronunciation very well in school; I often mispronounce things. I know what the words mean, definitely, but it's hard to know how to say them sometimes! I totally sympathize with you.

That's a hilarious story, btw.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine how difficult it must be. English is a tricksy language, and has many more words than most languages...plus, it tends to swallow words from other languages and mispronounce them (llama, for example).

[gypsyjolie.livejournal.com]

well, that "bear" was bad, but "ramshackle shack" is HORRIBLE. That's like saying "the sort of old church-like church". Lazy. Tsk Tsk.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

hee! I hadn't even noticed that until you pointed it out.

*hugs* Hope everything is well with you!