[ SECRET POST #3002 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3002 ⌋

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

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[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye/Transformers: Robots in Disguise]


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[Gary Barlow, Take That]


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[Sherlock Holmes]


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[Criminal Minds/Law and Order: SVU]


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[Gekkan shoujo Nozaki-kun]


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[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (episode: Prom Night)]


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[Breaking Bad]


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[Night Shift]


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[Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman, Stephen Colbert]


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[clockwise from bottom left: Dinosaur Comics, Romantically Apocalyptic, Homestuck, Nedroid, Sfeer Theory, Bite Me!]


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[Dragon Age]









Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 066 secrets from Secret Submission Post #429.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[vethica]

I assume you're a troll, but. A fic that uses the wrong country's turns of phrase can really throw you out of it. I read an Iron Man fic recently that was good, but the characters kept saying things like "had done", "I expect" and "he'd not". Which made it very hard to believe that they were New Yorkers.

[(Anonymous)]

It's those little phrases and turns of speech that are the hardest to get right, even for native speakers.

[vethica]

Exactly. Which is why Britpicking and Yankpicking are helpful.

[(Anonymous)]

Yankpicking! I love it.

Though I'm wary to use the term myself as I ain't a Yank and that term can also be an insult sometimes, I gather.

[(Anonymous)]

...what do New Yorkers say?

Genuinely curious here. East Coast anon, never been to NY, use those phrases all the time.

[vethica]

Huh. I'm East Coast too, but those phrases all ring distinctly British to me. These are what I'd say instead:

"had done" -> "had"
"I expect" -> "I'm guessing"
"he'd not" -> "he hadn't"

[(Anonymous)]

British anon, and I'd use "had," "I'm guessing," and "he hadn't" over the other options.

"He'd not," and "had done" just sound plain awkward, wherever you were.

[vethica]

Really? I think of "had done" as a very British usage. Like "I hadn't been there, but he had done." You guys don't say that?

[(Anonymous)]

...no. That sounds super stilted and weird.

[(Anonymous)]

No, we'd drop the "done" from that sentence.

Unless it's a regional dialect thing (which also tend to make people look askance) "had done" is a very awkward formation.

To my ear, "had done" sounds much more like a Southern US phrasing than a British one.

[otakugal15]

Had done is very Southern sounding.

[(Anonymous)]

Southerner here - It's not really used here. Sounds awkward as hell, tbh.

[otakugal15]

I've heard plenty down here. Hell, I've used it.

[(Anonymous)]

As a Canadian, all the Britishisms there and the Americanisms down below sound valid to me. I'm so confused. I swear we just use a mish-mash of both.

In the course of doing some professional work for an American company, my editor has let me know that many other things are in fact Britishisms!

Toward/towards is the one that gets me every time. I tend to write "towards", but apparently that's British...

[(Anonymous)]

... no offense, but where on the east coast are you from? i'm also an east coast anon and if i heard an american using those phrases on a regular basis i'd assume they were a teaboo.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

I'm from Washington DC and I use the first two as well as the alternatives vethica gave. "He'd not" is the only phrase there that sounds British-only to me.

[(Anonymous)]

VA
But also ESL if that affects anything.
Come to think of it, I do use "I'm guessing" and "I expect" with equal frequency.

And as for teaboo, lol I actually watch way more anime than brit shows and dislike the British accent for sounding too phlegmy.