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[perpetual_motion]

There's a person in a couple of my comms who is pimping a new rec community for comic book fic. Awesome, yes? Except that the person is looking for "recers", and I'm not sure what those are. In my experience, if someone is looking for people to recommend fics, they're looking for "reccers".

So I followed the link to the new comm, thinking it could have been a typo. Nope. In the entry describing the comm, it says "recers" again.

This is the "verb ends in a consonant" rule, people. You know it. The one where you add another consonant or end up with a different word:

"I need to strip the deck."
"I stripped the deck."
"I stripped and striped the deck."

See?

And, even granting that "reccer" is a fandom-word [that is, not in the dictionary], the conventional use of the word is to have the double "c".

Think about it: How many times have you seen "reccer" versus "recer"?

Fandom needs a style guide.

Comments

[royalneptune.livejournal.com]

I <3 your grammar rants. <3

Perhaps we can scan the guide to style and spam the hell out of fandom with it?

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

It's incredibly tempting. I have six style guides at the ready. I assume we start with Strunk and White, yes?

[royalneptune.livejournal.com]

Doesn't everyone? It's still the best, if you ask me.

[leaper182.livejournal.com]

It's a shame fandom-related books can't really be published without drawing people's attention to fandom itself and getting people in trouble?

I've seen "reccer" more than "recer" (as in, never seen the second one), but I do wonder -- how do you say that something's been recommended to you?

Was it "recc'd" to you, "rec'd" to you, "recced" to you, or something else?

[perpet-fic.livejournal.com]

I've seen "rec'd" and "recc'd", but I prefer "recced", seeing as it follows the basic rule:

I need to strip the deck.
I stripped the deck.

So, it would be:

I found a good rec.
I was recced a story.

[leaper182.livejournal.com]

Ahh, makes sense, certainly. I figured "rec'd" would work, because it's an abbreviation of a word, even if "rec'd" also means "received".