[ 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

[masterfedora.livejournal.com]

Okay I can understand needing to have your slang match up, but people really care about the spellings? If I write color instead of colour who really cares? It's the same word. Do British people writing for American shows make sure then spell in the American way for the fic? If so...why?

[fireholly.livejournal.com]

I'm a British person who writes fic in American fandoms (well, a Japanese fandom set in a weird idealised version of America, but yeah).

My rule is that I won't use American spellings for the same reason that if I was writing a fic in French, I wouldn't use American spellings - I write fics in British English, that's what I do. The exception is if I am trying to write something an American character is literally writing, like a letter to another character. Dialogue does not count as writing.

So while spellings are pointless, American terminology and phrasing should be used, especially if you're doing third-person limited. This is the part I find hard. I RPed an American character for a year, and then dropped him, before anyone told me he wouldn't use a 'torch'. I got criticised for having an American say the (to me) perfectly natural phrase "I shouldn't have done" when an American would have said "I shouldn't have" or "I shouldn't have done it".

[masterfedora.livejournal.com]

Okay, so you agree with me. I honestly didn't think this was a problem. I certainly didn't expect entire communities about it.

[fireholly.livejournal.com]

I think it's worth having communities! There's little turns of phrase that are completely invisible to British natives like me. A good reverse-Britpicker is amazing.

[masterfedora.livejournal.com]

Oh I'm not bashing the communities I was just surprised by them. I think in terms of slang and grammar they're invaluable. I just don't think we need t worry about all those 'u's either being or not being there. ;D

late to the party but

[relmneiko.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't think it matters either. I mix up British and American spellings all the time. All of the so-called Britishisms and Americanisms up there... aside from "torch" I pretty much use all of them. Then again, I'm Canadian, and I think we're all generally confused.