[ SECRET POST #4152 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4152 ⌋

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

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[Mercedes Lackey]


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[Inspector Javert]


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[DJ Khaled and his wife Nicole Tuck]


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[Scarlett Johansson at the Met Gala]


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[John Mulaney]


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[Disney's Sword in the Stone]








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Comments

Favorite cultural goof ups?

[(Anonymous)]

Inspired by secret 1

Re: Favorite cultural goof ups?

[(Anonymous)]

A romance one-shot set in the edo period in japan, where they slept in a bed with a 'doonah.'

Re: Favorite cultural goof ups?

[(Anonymous)]

Tf is a doonah

Re: Favorite cultural goof ups?

[(Anonymous)]

Australian word for duvet

Re: Favorite cultural goof ups?

[(Anonymous)]

We spell it "doona" though.

Idk where the fancy h is coming from but it can fuck right off.

Re: Favorite cultural goof ups?

[(Anonymous)]

Aww, that's kind of hilarious and oddly sweet.

Re: Favorite cultural goof ups?

[(Anonymous)]

Celebrating the fourth of July in fic set in the UK probably will never be beat for me.

Re: Favorite cultural goof ups?

[(Anonymous)]

That's pretty funny! (Although, I've come across things kind of like that and realized it was supposed to be an American AU of something British, just not well marked.)

Re: Favorite cultural goof ups?

[(Anonymous)]

maybe they were celebrating it because they really hate Americans

Re: Favorite cultural goof ups?

[tabaqui]

.......but celebrating would mean they were happy that the US beat the UK....?

Re: Favorite cultural goof ups?

[(Anonymous)]

Right, which meant that America wasn't part of Britain anymore, which would be good news for people who hated America (or at least that's the joke I was going for)

Re: Favorite cultural goof ups?

[tabaqui]

Aaaaaahhhhh, okay. I just didn't take it far enough. :)

Re: Favorite cultural goof ups?

[(Anonymous)]

When everyone of African descent is "African American" even when they aren't American. As an American, I get how that's what we're trained to say, but I don't get how the "American" part doesn't grate on the speaker/author and they realize their goof.

Re: Favorite cultural goof ups?

[(Anonymous)]

I have a RL story about this! One day I was taking a walk in the park and heard someone shout angrily: "I'm not black, I'm African American!"

I couldn't see the guy through the trees and I don't go looking for angry shouting people, but I was really confused because we don't live anywhere near America (there's a whole ocean between us), the guy was speaking the language of the country (which is most definitely not English), and he had a really thick regional accent that made it obvious that he was a local.

Re: Favorite cultural goof ups?

[el_regrs]

Maybe he was just being a smartass? Or possibly rehearsing a play (I dunno, it could happen).

Re: Favorite cultural goof ups?

[cakemage]

I still crack up when I remember the Chinese martial art-trained Bennet Sisters in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies using katanas, a Japanese sword. It wouldn't be so egregious if their rivals didn't constantly boast about the superiority of their own Japanese training, only to eventually be outdone by Elizabeth and her super awesome Chinese katana skills. Priceless.