[ SECRET POST #2797 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2797 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[lunabee34]

Frankly, a little using the wrong idiom doesn't bother me. If I'm reading a good story and Sam says to Dean, "We're meant to turn right here," I just chuckle and move on. If Harry tells Blaise he loves his sneakers, I just read on.

These kinds of errors are only a problem for me if they are pervasive and occur continuously in dialogue (because then it's not a Brit-pick or American-pick issue but a characterization one) or if the story is shit. If it's a good story, I can take a handful cultural mistakes.

[alexi_lupin]

Can I ask, what would be the proper alternative to "We're meant to turn right here,"? It certainly doesn't sound like a totally Sam thing to say but is it a UK/US thing?

[tree_and_leaf]

You don't 'turn right' in American, you 'make a right'.

[alexi_lupin]

Now you say it I remember hearing it but I was really clueless before, haha. Language is weird. Like how Americans "take" a shower and I would say "have" a shower.

[lunabee34]

Americans might say, "I mean to X" although many of them might say, "I intend to X" instead.

But Americans do not say, "I am meant to X." They say, "I'm supposed to X."

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[(Anonymous)]

Unless, of course, "I am meant to X" is followed by "in accordance with the prophecy."

[lunabee34]

Naturally. :)