[ SECRET POST #2111 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2111 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I hate that SO much. I also hate when Brits write Americans and use terms like "tucked in", "bloody hell", and a few other terms that 20 something American dudes would say. Get and American to beta please. I'm assuming that sentiment also goes both ways.

[(Anonymous)]

Americans don't say "tucked in"?

Or is there some other meaning to it?

[(Anonymous)]

DA

AFAIK we say it for like "tucked into bed" or "tuck in your shirt." But maybe not for eating food?

[(Anonymous)]

I read a fic recently where a character in Chicago was idly watching QI reruns on TV. HEY FIC WRITER! We Americans who watch QI have to work to find our illegal pirated episodes, okay! Have some respect for our hardships. :P

[(Anonymous)]

I vote we start using "Ameripick" the way "Britpick" is used. It's intensely aggravating to suddenly have British slang creep into American characters' speech when Brits get so uppity about the opposite. You'd think they'd take the time to find a beta.

Which is not to say that it's not intensely hard to write in another dialect. I've written longfic in BrE before and gotten told that I was raping the language after I'd spent months combing over it and had a beta. The beta just didn't do a good job, apparently.

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen it in use already.

[(Anonymous)]

You might want to think about why you used the word "uppity" there.

[vethica]

I've seen "Yankpick".

[(Anonymous)]

Nityank is better.

[ariakas]

"Taking the piss" is another one I see British writers put in the mouths of American characters, and nothing could be more hilariously jarring.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I hate that one. It literally takes me completely out of the story when they used obviously British phrases.

[(Anonymous)]

In my part of America, people say taking A piss. I assume the meaning is the name, but maybe I'm wrong.

[(Anonymous)]

I know a lot of Americans who use "taking the piss out on [blank]."

I am American.

[(Anonymous)]

What makes me sick in some American fanfics is the author calling characters by their names, if in canon their surnames are being used. Like calling ACD's Holmes "Sherlock" (even making Watson call him that), or, say, calling Hastings "Arthur", or Poirot "Hercule" for that matter. It's just outright creepy.

[(Anonymous)]

....am I missing something? Because in my head I can distinctly hear Watson calling him Sherlock in the BBC Sherlock.

[(Anonymous)]

Not just fanfics. The published pastiche novel "A slight trick of the mind" does it ALL the way through. ARGH. Did Not Do the Research.

[(Anonymous)]

How about the flip side - people writing fics from the perspective of the character, but *not* using their first name?

For example, Snape. In most cases, fics from another character's perspective are correct to call him by his last name, because that's how most characters think of him. But third-person fics that are supposed to be from *his* perspective, but use the last name, bug me.

[(Anonymous)]

I watch so much TV from across the pond that I have to britpick my british canons and ameripick my american canons because I can't tell which is which anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not alone!

[(Anonymous)]

It's not only Brits. There's an American fandom I read and write fanfic in. There's an Aussie writer in my fandom that equips the American characters with "torches." Sigh.

[ariakas]

Lol, I have a anglophile in my acquaintance who keeps referring to flashlights as "torches" because he thinks it's cool, so one of these days I swear to god, when we're camping and he asks for a torch, I'm going to light the end of a stick on fire and hand it to him.

[(Anonymous)]

That does annoy me, but to be honest, when I see it, 9 times out of 10 I attribute it to anglophile American nerds using slang terms picked up from Terry Pratchett, Dr Who, and QI. Because those slang terms are SO COOL and make you seem SO SOPHISTICATED, even though they clearly don't have any real command of them. You're absolutely right that it's extremely jarring. But I mean, seriously, you've never seen some American nerd using "bloody" or "arse" or something like that?

[(Anonymous)]

Um, I'm sure I make that sort of mistakes, but I'm not an anglophile American nerd. I'm an ESL who hasn't spent much time in the UK, no time at all in the US, and watches and reads both British and American media though, and I don't find it easy to keep track of which is which.

[(Anonymous)]

I notice this when it happens, and I know that it's out of character. Am I the only person who's okay with it, though? I think it's neat when people lend local flavor to imported fandoms.

[(Anonymous)]

This too...it's always so jarring to see (for example) Dean Winchester say "What are you on about?" or "in hospital" or refer to Father Christmas.