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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

[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.