Normally, only dictionary words bother me, like if you spell appearance wrong or put the wrong version of a word in a sentence. But this is about the incorrect spelling of canon character names, places and the like. I get typos, I can live with typos, but I really, really don't get what's so hard about opening a page on the internet or opening a book to find the correct spelling of a name, especially if you like something so much you'd start a roleplay about it.

Am I alone here, or is this something other people also have an issue with?

I hate that, too. I have always been a stickler with things like that, with books or movies that I like. I guess it's good that I'm not the only one with that push for wanting something right. I agree with you, if you like a character that much to use him or her in an RP, then you should know how to spell that person's name.

Currently my biggest pet peave is the whole 'lose, loose' thing. It seems every other person I RP with thinks that the word lose (as in, they're going to lose the game) is spelled 'loose'. Well...it's not. And for crying out loud, if you're going to personify an already established character in fiction or film, please get at least the basics right about them!

I could understand occasionally misspelling a character's name, particularly because a name is something which people as a general thing don't think about spelling. It's not like a 'dictionary' word, where people have to look up how to spell it, and to be fair some characters out there are never given actual written names, except maybe in the show's credits, so only people who really care enough to wait through/rewind the credits of their show to get the correct spelling of said character's name can say they have the correct spelling of the character's name.

And I don't know about you but I generally don't wade through a show's credits to find something which I don't even know what looks like if I have a fairly good idea of how to spell it already. Sure There was a show Avatar :TLA character's name was Ty Lee, I had always spelled it Tai Lee until I was corrected. I changed over without batting an eye, because to me, as long as someone knows who/what you're talking about, what does it matter what what the thing was spelled. And a good player should be able to portray a character such that you could figure out who they where without having to know their name.

What get's me is when people post, and you need a decoder ring to figure out what they were saying. I knew this player once, openly admitted to having three or four different things going while he was posting. He drove me crazy, it wasn't that his posts were poorly formatted or even that his spelling was poor, it was the little things that could have easily been caught had he just given his post a second glance. Things like tree being three, or three being there or vise versa. Those were particularly bad, because no matter what he typed, it could have been a half dozen other things.

I mean is it so much to ask to run your posts through a spell checker before posting them? Here we even have a built in spell checker, how hard can it be to notice the little red lines? And if you don't know how to spell something, used Google or any other of the ten thousand internet sources to find out how to spell it. It's good for you and it makes sure people get what you're talking about.

There's nothing in this world which concerns me more than the thought that I might be misunderstood. It leads me to religiously double check my posts, and often I'll scrap entire posts if they're not to the point enough. I tend to ramble because of it, going into absurd amount of detail about things that probably don't need it just because I want people to really be able to see it.

Well, as someone who gets annoyed by even common, understandable spelling mistakes, I may be a little biased in my answer. But I'll give one anyway. Personally, I find misspelled proper nouns to be the most annoying. Do you think a person living in Philadelphia would like it if I spelled it as Phillidelfia? No, they'd correct me. Same goes for character and place names from established works. And with things like Google and Wikipedia out there, it's not like it would take any real effort to find the correct spelling. It's just laziness, and it annoys me. =/