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⌈ Secret Post #6029 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I still remember an absolutely beautifully written fic set in England (the source was set in the US) but with an American main character. The author didn't even try to make her sound American. It was mostly something I could overlook until she was finally explaining her tragic backstory and whoops, her true love got killed by a "lorry". Ruined the entire speech.

But the thing I really remember was how hilarious I found every description of the male lead's clothing choices. I never realized how Eurotrash England could be. Shirts unbuttoned to the navel, robes so short it sounds like you could see tip of his pooter hanging out, just weird flashy patterns. Yipe.

[(Anonymous)]

I guess for me it depends on how long the American has been living in the UK, because it's easy for some people to start adapting to the speech they hear every single day even if it's not their native slang.

And on a slightly related note, I'm an American and on a trip to England I got corrected more than once on my pronunciation until I gave up and pronounced things with as close to an English accent as I could manage. It just seemed easier than arguing about it.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm an American who lived in the UK for several years, and found that I had to speak a bit differently (crisper?) to be better understood, since I have a lazy, kind of Californian drawl. I worked in media and ditched most of my Americanisms in writing, but sometimes there are just things you don't know, like (my friends will recognize this story) I used "stroller" in a story for a toddler's stroller and my editor was like, wtf is that? It's a pushchair. An American writer might swap in pram, but that's a baby carriage, not an upright conveyance.

So I get how people just wouldn't know a word isn't commonly used, if it doesn't come up in canon or dialogue.

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“Pooter”??

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AYRT

Sorry, ding-a-ling. I checked urban dictionary and it turns out that pooter does not generally mean what I thought it did. Damn Brickleberry for using it that way.

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