[ SECRET POST #6318 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6318 ⌋

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Comments

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)]

Oh god the "yeah?" thing threw me so much until I realized it was a Brit thing. I could not get a handle on why this one author had all of their (American) characters end their sentences that way.

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

[(Anonymous)]

Jesse Armstrong, lol?

(The head writer of Succession does that with his American characters, but he gave them an English mother, so it's fine.)

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

[(Anonymous)]

"Whilst" feels oddly pretentious to me, as if it was archaic even in UK English and so the user is trying to sound posh (is it archaic? If it isn't, I'll try and get used to it).

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

[(Anonymous)]

I was curious too, so found this:

We don’t say whilst instead of while. But we do sometimes say while instead of whilst.

We say while when explaining that something happened at a particular time or in a particular context:

“I received an upsetting email while I was on holiday.”

If, however, the key thing to get across is the simultaneous occurrence of two things, rather than just the context of when one thing happened, then in formal speech we use whilst:

“You shouldn’t be trying to make a phone call whilst driving.”

But in informal speech we often just tend to use while so as not to sound overly formal.