Quizzes and grammar peeves

Ad Mundo Exteriore,

Taking an extended study break by taking many, many Quizilla quizzes. First two, courtesy of evremonde, the rest from my, er, spree of procrastination.

( Quizzes )

Oh, and the quizzes inspired two more grammar peeves:

since vs. sense: I'm too lazy to actually define the difference, so..."since" translates to "puisque" (if you're using it in a causative sense) or "depuis" (if you're using it in a temporal relations sense), and "sense" translates to "sens". Feel free to check my French.

accept vs. except: Mistakes are understandable once in a while, due to the homophony, but constantly confusing them is pretty embarrassing. "accept" is a verb, used to say, "She accepted his proposal of marriage." "except" is a preposition, used to say, "Cathy invited everyone except me to her birthday party."

I mean, I'm not as much of a grammar fiend as Angelette makes me out to be. I don't mind typos or intentional rule bending. But I can't stand Netspeak because it causes all those idiotic teenagers to start thinking that if it sounds like the word, it must be the same as the word. Soon, you begin to wonder if people know the difference at all.

Also, I really dislike it when inexperienced fic writers use a "sophisticated" word that doesn't really fit with the rest of their writing style. It just sounds awkward. That doesn't apply to any of you of course, but it unfortunately does apply to a lot of otherwise promising FF.net authors. ::sighs::

Yes, I've been perusing FF.net in my "study break".

...Tari