Homophones are tricky little bastards. Any writer will tell you that. But there’s one set that drive me crazy.
When someone sends me a message that goes something like this “heys, i saw you critic my friends story really well. your a good critique. can you critic my story?”, I swear that my inner Alice comes out and I have the uncontrollable urge to answer with a “If you can’t differentiate between two nouns, there’s not much I can do for you. May we all take a moment of silence to mourn the passing of such a promising career.”.
Apparently, my inner Alice is a very cruel person.
But seriously, how can expect to be a good writer if you can’t even ask someone for advice with the right words?
Let’s clarify this folks:
A critic is a person who provides a critique. A critique is essentially the stuff you need to improve on.
Please, for the love of all things good and holy, keep these two words straight. Because you really don’t want a critic from a critique, do you?
Ewww, spontaneous generation… I thought we were over that ages ago.
