[ SECRET POST #6318 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6318 ⌋

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What are your least favorite americanisms/britishisms/etc to see in fic?

[(Anonymous)]

I always find "mum" to be so jarring.

Re: What are your least favorite americanisms/britishisms/etc to see in fic?

[(Anonymous)]

homie, soccer

fancy, cuppa, bloke

Re: What are your least favorite americanisms/britishisms/etc to see in fic?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm american and call my mother mum...

For me it is things like "going to hospital" vs "going to the hospital"

Apartment vs flat. Jumper vs sweater. Truck vs lorry. Trunk vs boot. Mates vs friends. All things that in the wrong fandom can totally throw me off.

Re: What are your least favorite americanisms/britishisms/etc to see in fic?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in a U.S.-set fandom and there are a ton of active Brit writers.

WHILST is a dead giveaway. Other phrases that make me roll my eyes are: Jumper; taking the piss; having a go; you lot; ending a sentence with "yeah?"

Re: What are your least favorite americanisms/britishisms/etc to see in fic?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have any that I dislike, truthfully. I actually love to see both.

Happy International English Language Day today by the way. Hee hee.

https://nationaltoday.com/international-english-language-day/

Re: What are your least favorite americanisms/britishisms/etc to see in fic?

[(Anonymous)]

I cannot deal with "mom" in fantasy settings. It just sounds so modern.

Re: What are your least favorite americanisms/britishisms/etc to see in fic?

[greghousesgf]

characters who aren't British should not be saying "cross" to mean in a bad mood. They shouldn't say "chap" or "lad" either.

Re: What are your least favorite americanisms/britishisms/etc to see in fic?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a Canadian who lived in England for almost 10 years.

Nothing phases me. S, Z, no u, yes u, piss or wee or piddle or pee. It's all English to me.

Re: What are your least favorite americanisms/britishisms/etc to see in fic?

[(Anonymous)]

Mightn't. Sounds so wrong in American English.

And it's already been said, but another vote for "was sat".

However, I will say that I'm enjoying "Uni" slowly coming to America. Especially for those of us who did a community college-to-four year track and want to differentiate the institutions without sounding braggadocios - "Oh, when I was in UNIVERSITY".

Re: What are your least favorite americanisms/britishisms/etc to see in fic?

[(Anonymous)]

I've set a couple recent fics in London, and I tried so hard to not use American slang. I thought I was being so smart and so clever... and I just recently realized I'm definitely not fooling anyone because I'm still using American spellings of common words (color, realize, etc.). 😂

Least favorite is probably "biscuits" to mean "cookies" because "biscuits" are a completely different food to me. "Chips" being "fries" I can kind of make sense of, but not "biscuits."

Re: What are your least favorite americanisms/britishisms/etc to see in fic?

[(Anonymous)]

Aw, man, any time there are babies, so many differences.

Nappies vs. diapers
Pram, pushchair vs. stroller
Dummy vs. pacifier
Baby grow suit, snapsuit, creeper vs. onesie
Cot vs. crib
Creche vs. daycare, nursery

Re: What are your least favorite americanisms/britishisms/etc to see in fic?

[(Anonymous)]

"rubber" to refer to condoms or snogging/shagging.

I can't separate snogging/shagging to carpets. It's the least unsexy thing to think about while two characters are making out or whatever.

Re: What are your least favorite americanisms/britishisms/etc to see in fic?

[(Anonymous)]

A little off topic but back when I was in a fandom in the late 2000s, I found non-Brits (especially the Americans) who used "mum" to be fake ass bitches who were trying way too hard to show off how...sophisticated(?) they were

Re: What are your least favorite americanisms/britishisms/etc to see in fic?

[(Anonymous)]

-bloke, cuppa, shagging and snogging for American characters. It's just... wrong.
-overly using "fuck" for UK characters. they have a lot more swear than fuck and i love them for that. this is especially true for Scottish characters. never heard a IRL Scottish person saying fuck if they were not interacting with other international people.

BTW I'm European and English is my third language. Learned it in school with British rules, spelling and words. Then got into the internet and North-American (and even Australian) fandom and now my English is all mixed up. My base accent is British with my native language inflection, but I just use the slang that comes easier to me at any giving moment.
Ain't got time to get my English "proper" when I speak. I try my best when I write my fanfiction, especially to give the characters their proper voice, but reading some of the examples above, I just don't get many of the differences. Sweater/Jumper, Biscuit/Cookies, Flat/Apartment they are the same to me, eh.

Re: What are your least favorite americanisms/britishisms/etc to see in fic?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I FULLY backbutton out of any SPN fic where Dean Winchester says 'I've not', like it's not that it's a britishism specifically as it is a sign that the writer has not actually listened to how the character speaks, so why should I trust any aspect of their characterization?

'Mum' is also VERY jarring when the character in question is a midwestern guy who was not raised on old british TV shows on PBS and brit kid lit, but for some reason 'I've not' is ALWAYS the one I see first. I think the thing about 'Mum' is, if you HEAR the character in question say 'Mom', like... what's not clicking?

I always feel bad when I'm like 'AMERICANS NEVER TALK LIKE THIS', because I *was* raised on PBS and British kid lit, and now as an adult a lot of my internet social circle is British, so I *do* periodically say 'whilst' and 'mum' and 'I've not'-- I wouldn't say I *say* 'mum' frequently, but I do often type it out that way when chatting about family stuff with British friends, kind of the way I might start mirroring someone's accent after listening to them talk a while. But like... I'm a very specific weird little man, and Dean Winchester is a DIFFERENT specific weird little man.

What TV show had the best fourth season of episodes in your opinion?

[(Anonymous)]

Or perhaps merely just your favorite.

Loosely inspired by today's Secret #7.

Re: What TV show had the best fourth season of episodes in your opinion?

[philstar22]

Can't choose an absolute top, but here are some ones with a great fourth season: Babylon 5, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Next Generation, Stargate: SG1, Criminal Minds, Supernatural, and Doctor Who (okay, New Who specifically, haven't seen fourth season of the original).

I guess I'd say maybe Babylon 5 edges out as the top.

Re: What TV show had the best fourth season of episodes in your opinion?

[(Anonymous)]

X-Files. The mytharc wasn't entirely stupid yet and the monster of the week episodes were on fire. The fifth season was the best for monster of the week, but the mytharc episodes were getting bad.

Re: What TV show had the best fourth season of episodes in your opinion?

[kaijinscendre]

Definitely The Wire.

Re: What TV show had the best fourth season of episodes in your opinion?

[(Anonymous)]

I think Season 4 is most likely best season of The Wire - it's either that or season 3 - which in turn, means that it has a pretty strong argument for being the greatest season of television ever.

Just a fucking phenomenal season. Unbelievably good.

Re: What TV show had the best fourth season of episodes in your opinion?

[(Anonymous)]

SPN (Castiel appears in S4) and Andromeda (I'm the OP of n7)

Re: What TV show had the best fourth season of episodes in your opinion?

[greghousesgf]

Boardwalk Empire, MST3K, Star Trek NG, Frasier, GBBO and Trailer Park Boys all had great 4th seasons. I think Cheers might have too but I haven't seen the 4th season of that for so long I might not be remembering it correctly.

Re: What TV show had the best fourth season of episodes in your opinion?

[(Anonymous)]

Another vote for TNG. Also Due South.

What is your favorite piece of media featuring 'awkward losers'?

[(Anonymous)]

Awkward losers of course being subjective and open to interpretation.
Inspired by today's Secret #1.