[ SECRET POST #6318 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6318 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[feotakahari]

I heard about a fic that parodied this by having Harry Potter use “gangsta” slang. (It seems to have been scoured from the Internet, which is probably for the best.)

[(Anonymous)]

Asking Americans to conceive of a world outside the U.S. is... a daunting task.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I don't expect the 16yos who are writing fics to get every slang word correct.

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, as not an American (Canadian) writing fic with characters who are from the UK, I try my best lol.

It's funny how the more I research into slang/vernacular, the more I notice the discrepancies and it does make me pause more in other fic of the same fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, there's plenty of us from neither country writing for fandoms set there! And it gets more complicated again when writing for, say, Chinese or Japanese fantasy fandoms!

[(Anonymous)]

See, you exist in that place where Brits are going to be like 'hm, American word choice' and Americans are going to be like 'hm, British spelling'...

(But hey, both Americans and Brits can struggle alike to write a convincing newfie, so... there's that)

[(Anonymous)]

I agree, but the "wrong" English in any fandom is jarring. For example, for an American show with "he was sat," which is an English regionalism as well! "Yeah, you would do," instead of "would do that," etc.

I can overlook color/colour center/centre and things of that nature, but some things are clearly not in the canon's form of English and it's obvious that the writer is not aware of this. Fuckin'...whilst. LOL.

(ESL writers do a really good job, though!)

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, i feel like it goes both ways. Agree with you and OP.

[(Anonymous)]

Big agree-- spelling doesn't bother me, and if someone is writing fic in English when it's not their first language, then I'm impressed enough to let wrong-regionalisms slide.

I've got one friend whose backbutton issue was if one character whose speech patterns are English almost to the point of parody said 'sweater' instead of 'jumper', then the fic wasn't going to be worth reading-- either because there would be future jarring Americanisms, or because there just wouldn't be any care given to what makes that character's voice sound right.

Which, to me, is the big thing-- if the characters don't sound like themselves, whether it's British characters sounding American or American characters sounding British, it takes me out of the story. Since my current fandom AND my last main fandom before it were both set mostly in the American midwest, of course I saw more 'I've not' instead of 'I haven't' (and every single time I'd be like HAVE YOU NEVER ACTUALLY PAID ATTENTION TO HOW THE CHARACTERS TALK?), but of course it's just as jarring in the other direction when it means the character sounds not only not like themselves, but like they're not even in the same country.

[greghousesgf]

"have you something?" as opposed to "do you have something?"

[scissorsevered]

Even in the United States you see people using wildly different regional slang in their fics sometimes. I'm from Rhode Island and was so confused when i read the term "kitty-corner", which is apparently a thing in the midwest and some northeast states.

[(Anonymous)]

Midwesterner, can confirm that is a common term in my neck of the woods :D.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh this is about language! My immediate thought was when fics have culturally American things in settings where they don’t belong, like European millenials mystified by manual transmission, or Japanese characters wearing robes for high school graduation.