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ParodyKnaveBob
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Does your game have typos?
Types of writing I've analyzed and fixed:
Call to Action:
Start a Conversation with me as soon as you decide your 2019+ video game has outgrown its 1985 Engrish.
I look forward to your message!
Brandon W. Horton
a.k.a. ParodyKnaveBob $:^ J
- Is English your second language?
- Is English your first language, but you lack time and/or ability to catch and/or correct errors?
- u txt 2 much n ned hlp?
When one enjoys one's job, one generally does better at it, right? Well! I've held copy-editing jobs for over a decade combined, and in my free time, language and syntax have been personal passions, thus I'll let you discern from this very post if I have the skill you need—and note the forum stating I haven't edited.
Types of writing I've analyzed and fixed:
- formal newspaper articles
- slangy opinion pieces
- conversational transcripts from TV lessons
- letters, casual and formal
- TV slides I transcribed from books, borrowing closed captioning regulations for my style guide
- heavily graphical text (e.g. advertising, headlines and their templates)
- minutiae, e.g., extra spaces between words
- Y'all lookin' fer people talkin' like the who-alls next door?
- Do you seek consistent GUI and instructional text?
- Covetest thou to impress thine audience to wit a former world?
- Are you afraid your 1337 5p33k is too unreadable—or too readable?
- Unsure which words are whimsical or dry?
- Would you like advice on programming or data entry for a/an/the, he/she/it, singular/plural dynamics, and more?
- too | to | two
- it's | its | 'tis
- y'all | ya'll
- won't | want | wan't
- who | who's | whose | whom | whomst'd
- - | – | —
- regardless | irregardless
- googol | Google
- supercalifragilisticexpialidocious | Gandhi
- etc. | et cetera | &c.
I'm most familiar with modern American English, but I dabble in other colours of the language, too. That said, I prefer to avoid "colorful" language—i.e., profanity, various vulgar topics and jokes, etc. We can still discuss, though; I've often been able to suggest alternatives that folks actually liked and merely hadn't considered before—and I don't mean mere euphemisms or "PG swears" which often sound simply absurd.
Call to Action:
Start a Conversation with me as soon as you decide your 2019+ video game has outgrown its 1985 Engrish.
I look forward to your message!
Brandon W. Horton
a.k.a. ParodyKnaveBob $:^ J