Wow, you're really angry about this and, honestly, I'm really guilty of it. Especially over at syntheticduel. (I hope it isn't that that's sent you off, by the way.)
All your points are 100% valid and you do know a lot more about the way the language and the culture works than I do but I'm not exactly repentant. "Jou" isn't that bad, is it? If one just reads it in a fic like, say, "Foster Care" (where I'm sure it appears and I know that you've read it and liked it) it's not all that jarring on the eyes, is it? And most people don't actually know the finer points. They get a lot of the big ones right but something as small as Jou, I'd let it slide.
It is, of course, your right to grouse about something that is actually so wrong in you own journal and I mean you no disrespect. I just didn't really think it was such a big deal.
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Date: 2007-02-15 01:19 am (UTC)All your points are 100% valid and you do know a lot more about the way the language and the culture works than I do but I'm not exactly repentant. "Jou" isn't that bad, is it? If one just reads it in a fic like, say, "Foster Care" (where I'm sure it appears and I know that you've read it and liked it) it's not all that jarring on the eyes, is it? And most people don't actually know the finer points. They get a lot of the big ones right but something as small as Jou, I'd let it slide.
It is, of course, your right to grouse about something that is actually so wrong in you own journal and I mean you no disrespect. I just didn't really think it was such a big deal.
Anyways, Happy Valentine's Day! ^__^