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[queerbychoice]

Look what I just made!



It is the most useful icon ever. Now I can correct people's spelling without having to actually say anything!

Some parts of the text are inspired by (or plagiarized from) an icon that ifhy is using, but the creator of that icon is unknown, so I don't know who to credit. If anyone reading this happens to know who made that one, please tell me.

But I wrote a lot of the text from scratch, and I recreated all the lettering and colors myself. If anyone else wants to use it, feel free to. Just credit me for it.

Comments

[jaq.livejournal.com]

Top marks!

[novalis.livejournal.com]

Spitted is a valid past tense of spit, when spit is used to mean impale.

[lilerthkwake.livejournal.com]

Because I impale just as often as I expectorate.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Okay. I edited the icon to clarify.

[mariness.livejournal.com]

How narrowminded. Do you have any idea how many times I've been in ecstasy after throwing things? I throw, and throes of ecstasy overcome me.

[lilerthkwake.livejournal.com]

OMG that icon is just WRONG.

[lilerthkwake.livejournal.com]

I love it!

I will probably steal & use (with credit, of course, because I am a respectful LJ user.)

My spelling has become sloppier and sloppier as I've gotten older. I NEVER EVER EVER used to commit the sins of "there, their, they're" and now every once in a while I see myself doing it. I just want to scream. I feel like I should have a disclaimer icon: "I got a 760 on my SAT verbals. I'm really VERY SMART and am a naturally good speller. I'm just too hyper and excitable and tend to type my words so fast that I make stupid, stupid mistakes. And I usually just don't want to be bothered with proofreading because I am lazy." But that just exposes MORE of my bad traits, so um... maybe I won't offer that disclaimer.

Hey! Did you read my new poem up at lil_e_book. Silly question. I know you'll read it whenever you check your flist, since you are the most faithful flist read EVAR. Please comment, I really hope you like it!

[mikester.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, the many times I could have used this icon....

Good work!

[misterkrista.livejournal.com]

hahaha!

Although I probably make these mistakes sometimes, I can still laugh because I can at least spell most of the time!

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

I love it! (And I am particularly gratified to see someone coming down on "woah" and phase/faze. Those drive me crazy.)

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the phase/faze one especially drives me crazy . . . and the "balling my eyes out" . . . and "it peaked my interest" . . . and . . . well, most of them really! You'd be horrified to know how many professional editors, including ones that far outrank me, continually send interoffice emails advising each other to keep their eyes "pealed" for certain errors.

[luinied.livejournal.com]

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I always have trouble accepting the word "faze". I realize that "phase" is a completely different word meaning something else, but "faze" is only (in my experience, at least) used in the phrase "X didn't faze Y", which I can't recall ever seeing written down, or at least written down correctly. Hence I only read "faze" in the context of people's complaints about commonly confused words. So it still doesn't really look like a word to me.

I've also been known to use "whoah" when I want to add some additional confusion that I don't think "whoa" conveys, but I've never denied the fact that many words I use may not be entirely valid.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

"Faze" really is a strange word. I never hear anyone say that anything did faze them; they only ever say that things didn't faze them.

[brodeurbunny30.livejournal.com]

that is *THE* best icon i've ever seen. EVER.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[bigdaddybrad.livejournal.com]

I found you on MySpace and followed your lonk here. Oh My God! I absolutely love your icon. It says all of the myriad things I have been wanting to say to berate the imbeciles that wander randomly through these webpages.
It stands aloan in a whirled of moronic ineptitude.
Thanks for brightening my day.