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This is a safe place for you, sweetie.  And safer for the authors and betas, too.  Because we know they don't want to hear our rants about grammar, spelling and punctuation.  Although we could teach them so much!

I beta for 2 right now.  I'd do more but with work & school I don't really have the time

First thing? Look for grammar errors.  They both mostly catch the spelling errors except once in a while a homonym. So it annoys me if it's been beta'd yet still has stupid errors. 

Aaaaaaiiiiieeeee!!!  I just read a chapter of a WIP where the author says it's been beta'd. And I see this line...'Would her and Edward work out?'  Um NO!  Would she and Edward work out is what it should be.  I'm sorry but if you don't know English well enough to know that, you shouldn't be beta-ing. End rant. 

This is why I love this place.  I really wanted to put that into the review, so I came here instead. 

I hate to see something beta'd with the phrase "had went."  It's either went or had gone (e.g., Bella went to see Jacob    OR   Bella had gone to see Jacob      NOT     Bella had went to see Jacob).  I also don't understand the increased use of "of" in recent years (i.e., embarrassed of, bored of, should/would/could of).

Do you mean Mens Rea?  I can't remember who wrote it but it is somewhere on my reading list.  Maybe it will drop.  A lot

Hi Ella
Did you ever remember who wrote this Fic? Decided to add some non-HEA to my TBR list...

Mens rea - A Guilty Mind was written by forbidden-fruit81, but it no longer shows up on FFn, TWCS or Twilighted.

Thankfully we have it on our initial thread! 

Hi Ella
Did you ever remember who wrote this Fic? Decided to add some non-HEA to my TBR list...

You're one brave girl, reading non-HEA  I must always have HEA or else i'll go nuts 

Maybe they intended to mean should've, would've or could've but thought "have" was "of" depending on their accent or how they pronounced it or how it sounded to them when spoken:  shouldof, wouldof, couldof 

I don't think people talk in correct English any more. So they hear could of instead of could've. It does sound alike.  And since spelling is mostly a memory thing? The more misspelled but looks correct words you see?  Yeah, you start forgetting what's correct.  .....Sigh....

You're one brave girl, reading non-HEA  I must always have HEA or else i'll go nuts 

I don't know...I just think I might be getting a bit bored of HEA, I kind of want to see how an author would tackle E+B not riding off into the sunset...*Shrug* I might hate it and come screaming back to claim my rose-tinted glasses but I want to try wearing my Big Girl Pants for once 

I don't know...I just think I might be getting a bit bored of HEA, I kind of want to see how an author would tackle E+B not riding off into the sunset...*Shrug* I might hate it and come screaming back to claim my rose-tinted glasses but I want to try wearing my Big Girl Pants for once 

Mens Rea is a good story, but I remember that it had also an alternative HEA ending, I liked the one much better.... :-)

So did I, But once I read the first one, I couldn't get it out of my head
 

Exactly, I felt the same way, I felt like I cheated.

I don't think people talk in correct English any more. So they hear could of instead of could've. It does sound alike.  And since spelling is mostly a memory thing? The more misspelled but looks correct words you see?  Yeah, you start forgetting what's correct.  .....Sigh....

Agree. What makes things worse is the texting. If we keep texting in shortcuts, we do tend to forget how words are actually spelled. Have been conscious to spell out the entire words when texting my 13 yr old. daughter. however, am guilty of using shortcuts for the rest of my textmates