[ 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

[rosefyre]

Definitely possible to tell. It comes out most in the little idioms, the way people speak, turns of phrase that don't have simple factual differences you can learn like truck = lorry, jumper = sweater, underground = subway, etc., and I've gotten to the point that that sort of thing doesn't throw me out of the story - whether I'm reading British characters written by an American or American characters written by a Brit. We're not paying for fanfic, after all, and the point is enjoyment, so if the story is good, the grammar/spelling are generally decent (if not necessarily from the country they should be), and I'm having a good time, I will let that sort of thing go.

What DOES throw me out are things where it's like "...did you even research the location you're writing this about?" And I've definitely found it happening more and more with Avengers fic, because, as a native New Yorker, I constantly see glaring mistakes that are just like "...no, no, New York City DOES NOT WORK that way." I think the one that threw me out the most was actually written by an American author, since I don't remember any weird grammar/spelling stuff in the rest of the fic, but it was so clear that the author just looked at a map to pick a place and didn't research at all as to where the sort of thing he/she was looking for would actually be located. I still won't abandon stories just because of stuff like that, but I will roll my eyes and probably be more inclined to abandon the story if I see more egregious mistakes.