Date: 2004-01-01 05:51 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Here is something I see all too frequently.

"Thanks for taking care of Dawn," Buffy smiled.

Did Buffy somehow learn how to smile dialog? Some kind of new lip-reading thing?

I know this is only peripheral to your subject. But it's in the ball park. And I know I have sneaked in another little rant about my current pet peeve which is abuse of dialog attributions.

I only see this kind of error in dialog within quotes. It reveals a very deep misunderstanding of how dialog punctuation works.

Diane (Featherstone)
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