[ 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

[(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.