[ SECRET POST #1666 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1666 ⌋


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Notes:

Posting these up without comment threads so you can see them at least, if LJ stops breaking. Working on getting the threads up



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Comments

[laerwen.livejournal.com]

That's why you ask for a Brit-picker to go in with a fine tooth comb and fix that. Problem solved! Loads of people do it.

[laughinggas13.livejournal.com]

This. There's even a specific comm for Who-fic Brit-picking, dw_britglish.

And I tend to subscribe to the view that if you've got the character's voices down, it doesn't matter so much if you slip up occasionally in narration.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I had no idea there was such a thing! This makes my day.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

yeah it's when a character says something that doesn't fit that it all falls apart. Even a single word used in a way a character wouldn't used it can shatter a story. Narration doesn't matter too much though, tbh we're all used to the new cultural american imperialism. Although I daresay after august 3rd we'll all have to get used to Chinese Cultural Imperialism or Brazilian, or who ever takes over after america's bank explodes.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

BRAZILIAN?!

LOL FOREVER!

If only people knew what a piece of shit country Brazil is/will always be...

Oh, the first 19 years of my life.

Re: OP

[laughinggas13.livejournal.com]

It makes my day too, knowing that people care enough about what they're writing to ask. :) And also I'm a total dialect geek, so I love seeing the differences in a theoretically common tongue.

I feel your pain - back when I wrote a lot of Star Trek fic I used to agonise for ages about whether to do my best to use American grammar ('gotten' and all that), or just use British and hope it sounded OK. Fortunately, things like torches/flashlights don't come up too much in The Future, so I was able to wing that without too much trouble. (I hope. No one called me on it, at least.) As far as I can tell, there isn't an Ameri-picking comm in existence, which is a shame.

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[foxtoast.livejournal.com]

There is one, but it's quiet (drop_the_u). I think most non-US fandom folks just go straight to US betas because they're typically easy to find in any North American series fandom. I never alter my grammar in narration or my standard American spelling when writing for UK series, and wouldn't expect a Brit to work "gotten" into the narration of a Star Trek story or use US spelling. I leave all of that alone when I beta US-based fics for Brits and Australians and just edit the dialogue/cultural references. (Though I do stick with regional nouns when I write or beta so there isn't a different word used in the dialogue and the prose narration for the same object.)

Re: OP

[laughinggas13.livejournal.com]

Ooh! *bookmarks comm*

Yeah, I think the noun thing is a good idea. Plus is just makes sense, if you know the word is different, to use the correct-for-the-show one wherever necessary, not keep switching back and forth.

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[darlas-mom.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I wanna join that. I Ameri-pick for Brit friends a lot.

Actually, though, depending on the fandom, the differences can be really important and really needing of a beta, beyond just cultural/dialogue stuff. (In "Heroes" fandom, road trip fics were kind of a thing, and some Brit authors needed help with geography and/or settings. Like one fic I betaed had a road trip from Los Angeles to Manhattan that involved passing through Georgia.)

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[foxtoast.livejournal.com]

I consider geographical references "cultural references" broadly defined (geography is definitely an integral aspect of American culture) but who writes a road trip fic without google mapping the route?! It takes two minutes and no special knowledge. I use it all the time when I'm writing fiction that takes place somewhere other than my hometown. I still need a local to fix and concrete references, but it gives a good idea of distance and route and reasonable travel times.