Subject: IDK about those. Are they really spelling errors?
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Posted on: 2022-05-01 16:24:53 UTC

I agree with the first one (FrodoBaggins is definitely a mini of Frodo Baggins), but the rest, I'd like to debate.

  • Missing apostrophes can create minis (Frodos can be a mini of Frodo), but they can also create temporary clones ("Frodos" could result in multiple copies of Frodo existing until he is next referred to in the singular). Depends on what's more fun and works better for the mission.

  • Personally, I wouldn't get mad at someone for switching up name order as long as it's consistent. It's one way in Western culture, the other way in Eastern culture; neither is wrong in their own context. And, like, what if you learned the names from a show that presented them one way, even if they were originally the other way? Anime does this all the time. I don't know if it goes the other way, with Western shows translated in the East, but it wouldn't surprise me.

    If I wanted to make an issue of it, though, I reckon it would be a new character, not a mini. Like, you could theoretically have the canon character Uzumaki Naruto and his oddly inverted-looking double Naruto Uzumaki... Except you'd really have to make a case that the author should somehow have known better even though that's how they learned it from the version of the canon they're familiar with.

  • For "house" instead of "dorm," I'd think that would make the setting morph to match, not make a mini. That illustrates the nature of the error better, IMO, and "house" isn't a misspelling of "dorm" any way you look at it.

  • For the last one, I'd again suggest that it's fine as long as it's consistent. If the fic uses one style of transliteration for all names, that's probably a deliberate style choice, and style choices should usually be respected. If it's mostly one style, but some other style is randomly chucked in, though, that might count.

~Neshomeh

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