Favorite Typo in a LitRPG Book?

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  1. James G Patton

    James G Patton Horrific Pun Master LitRPG Author Citizen

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    If you did a title that long, I'd buy the book even if its shit, because anything with that large of a title deserves to be bought.

    Add as a tag line, Wrote by the Grisled Father of Grisly Grizzlies LitRPG
     
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  2. CheshirePhoenix

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    You must adore the hell out of light novels then. Novels like this one: 男子高校生で売れっ子ライトノベル作家をしているけれど、年下のクラスメイトで声優の女の子に首を絞められている。

    Which translates to "I'm a successful light novel author at a boy's high school, but I'm being strangled by a female classmate who's a voice actress and is younger than me."
     
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  3. Viergacht

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    It's impressive to write that long of a title while you're being strangled.
     
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  4. CheshirePhoenix

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    Well in Japanese it's only 52 characters long so it's just a bit over a third of a tweet in length. Fairly sure that most teenagers today could handle that while being strangled.
     
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  5. Viergacht

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    Just saw an entire novel, title and all, where the author used "Horde" instead of "Hoard".
    Sometimes it pays to hire an editor, kids!
     
  6. CheshirePhoenix

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    That's the biggest homonym error that isn't there/their/they're I'm pretty sure.
     
  7. CheshirePhoenix

    CheshirePhoenix Crazy Hermit on the Hill LitRPG Author Beta Reader Citizen Editor Aspiring Writer

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    More pet peeve typos:
    Lightening vs lightning
    Break vs brake
    Breath vs breathe
     
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  8. Viergacht

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    Baited breath for Bated breath
    Phazed for Fazed
    Except / accept
    "If that's what you think, you have another thing coming." for " . . . you have another think coming."
     
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  9. CheshirePhoenix

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    Racked vs wracked
    Ringer vs wringer
    Re-enforce vs reinforce
    Effect vs affect
     
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  10. Tom Gallier

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    I'm guilty of Racked for wracked.

    Holds head in shame.
     
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  11. CheshirePhoenix

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    Homonyms are pesky devils.
     
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  12. CheshirePhoenix

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    Even more!

    Diffused vs defused
    Poured vs pored
    Baited vs bated
    Discrete vs discreet (seriously think this one is the absolute most common of the entire list so far)
    Insure vs ensure
     
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  13. bwakul

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    I read a book on KU recently and began highlighting all the errors. There was so many I lost count but it was well over 100. It was a good story so I didn't want to hurt the author by writing a bad teview so I sent him the kindle file and he was very grateful and immediately fixed the errors. I just wish the new authors would take aevantage of the free beta readers and read through their own novels multiple times prior to publishing.
     
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    Silly when the universal word theiyr're can be used.
     
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    Oh sweet flying spaghetti Cthulhu that word hurt my brainmeats.
     
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    Winning the no-prize for worst use of batch find & replace in a word processing program is the novel Eondrias Book 1: a New Master of Dungeons, for the typo "aMasterit" instead of "admit".

    I'm guessing that he went through with text shortcuts for names/repeated words and the like, and the shortcut "dm" was meant to be replaced by "Master" but he forgot to put a space after dm in the search box.
     
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  17. CheshirePhoenix

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    Paging @Gryphon - that one typo I highlighted in your revision deserves to be immortalized here in all of its glory before I copyedit it out of existence.
     
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    Come on... spill the beens :p
     
  19. Viergacht

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    If I see one more author use "phased" instead of "fazed" I'm gonna blow a blood vessel in my eye.
     
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  20. Gryphon

    Gryphon Level 18 (Magician) LitRPG Author Citizen

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    Fine, but only because I blame myself for it and I'm sick enough for it to be funny.

    "As he pulled the weapon up to aim, a new rectal appeared showing each of his potion types and a small iron ball with an infinity symbol next to it.” I
     




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