[ SECRET POST #5008 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5008 ⌋

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


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 41 secrets from Secret Submission Post #717.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I never said it's not okay. I write about the US all the time, despite never having lived there. My point is just that a person, whose only connection to my country is that their grandparents are from here, can't really claim to have an equally good knowledge about the country as a person who actually lives here.

I used to post on an English-language forums about my country, and it turned out that people from the US diaspora have a completely different word for "grandma" than the one we use in our culture, that's not even spelled in accordance to the grammatical rules of our language. If someone writes a story - doesn't matter is it's fantasy or not - and a person in that story uses that americanized word, it will strike me as foreign and unfamiliar right away.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't shift the goal posts. You're generalizing away from the specific case. This isn't a grandparents situation.

[(Anonymous)]

The only one shifting the goal-posts in this thread is the OP. They made secret about how their knowledge about the culture isn't as good as that of a native, only to then show up in the comments and go "AH-HA! AKSCHUALLY I AM A NATIVE WHO LIVED THERE FOR MOST OF MY LIFE! GOTCHA!". My comments are relevant to the situation presented by the secret: a person who knows that their knowledge about the country is not on pair with that of a person living in it. In that situation it makes no difference who is writing the story, they would still need research and native proofreaders. If OP felt like lying for asspats in their secret, that's their own personal problem.

[(Anonymous)]

You've got a point. It's not that you moved the goal posts (which ... see below), it's that you didn't follow along when OP moved them, and I did.

That said, OP might not give details in the secret, but it hints that they are the child of immigrants ("she remained", not "she was born" or sth). It also makes clear that OP is familiar enough with their culture to understand what the other author is describing even when the author doesn't explain it for foreigners. Your Russian example just does not apply here. And while I kiiinda understand that you want to refer to the secret, not OP's late additions, it's also disingenuous to ignore additional context OP gives in this thread. Because that really makes it sound like you skimmed the secret, started your argument on principle, and now that it turns out OP's situation doesn't match your arguments, you blame OP for writing the wrong secret.