[ SECRET POST #2239 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2239 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Elementary]


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03.
[Pokemon]


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04.
[Noah, Power Rangers MegaForce]


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05.
[Mass Effect]


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06.
[Resident Evil]


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07.
[Medaka Box]


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08.
[Shameless]


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09.
[Star Trek 2009]


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10.
[Dreamwork's Sinbad, Avengers, American Gods, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Batman, Gunnerkrigg Court, Grim Adventures, Trickster's Choice/Queen]


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11.
[American Dad]


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12.
[Laurell K. Hamilton]


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13.
[my neighbour totoro]


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14.
[Medaka Box]


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15.
[Downton Abbey]


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16.
[The Red Panda, Black Jack Justice]


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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fauxkaren]

Eh. I haven't noticed too much Americanizing. Sometimes he does stuff like saying "cell phone" instead of "mobile", but wasn't Holmes supposed to be a master of disguise? Let's just pretend that he's doing it on purpose to better fit into America.

(In reality, I just think the writers don't know any better or they don't care. I mean, they're aiming the show at America audiences so they probably are just writing for their American audiences without giving a lot of thought to British terminology.)

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if it's intentional or not, but it's totally in line with being an ex-pat. My cousin moved from Canada to the UK and the longer he's there, the more his speech patterns change to fit the area he's living in. It's not a conscious thing and when he's home on visits he swings back and forth between the two almost within the same sentence. Not to mention there's the exporting of American terms around the world anyway. Watching some British shows you'll hear American terms getting used in convo without a single yank in sight to be influencing the dialogue.

[dethtoll]

I hang out on a forum with loads of British and otherwise English-speaking Europeans and I have absolutely got people mistaking me for British over time. You hang around enough people of a given culture you start picking up their words and turns of phrase.

[vongroovy]

Exactly this. It's totally an ex-pat thing - seems so natural to me that I haven't really noticed any of it on the show. I moved to Japan from the US and ended up knowing almost no other Americans - if my friends weren't Japanese, they were almost all British. I almost immediately started subconsciously tailoring my language. A few years of that and now my speech always varies wildly depending on where I am and who I'm talking with.

[mekkio]

And it doesn't take long to do that either. I was traveling in Europe for a month with a bunch of Australians and New Zealanders. By the end of the month I was calling french fries "chips" because of them. So much so that when I was back in a Georgia airport I saw a sign advertising "chips - $.99" and I thought they were talking about french fries. I had to remind myself what "chips" meant now that I was back in the US.

[(Anonymous)]

I did the opposite and moved from the UK to Canada for a few years, and I very quickly adapted to saying cell phone, vacuum, tomAYto etc etc.

Sometimes I still say cell phone, and I moved back to the UK years ago!!

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a Canadian living in the UK who hasn't picked up any trace of an accent in everyday speech, but has picked up some of the slang. Last time I was in Canada my friend was laughing at me; apparently I was completely Canadian in my speech and mannerisms until I reprimanded my young children! Since I don't switch accents for that at home, I was surprised but very amused to find myself doing it. I can only assume my subconscious decided that the kids were more likely to hear me if I used a familiar (and in this situation distinctive) accent.

[fae_boleyn]

Which makes a degree of sense, because there are some Britishisms that would be unfamiliar to Americans and confusing your viewers is not really the best idea. Most of my familiarity with British media is Doctor Who and early Primeval, so things like Jack Harkness using UK terminology and pronunciation (the way he says estrogen/oestrogen in the Torchwood pilot is glaringly obvious to me and sounds "wrong") despite his American accent is explained by being from the 51st century. And being in Cardiff for a long fucking time, though that makes me wonder why he hasn't picked up a hint of a Cardiff accent.

I don't really know if American characters on more realistic British shows tend to use, say, mobile instead of cell phone, to use your example in reverse, but I'd expect them to. It can be vaguely annoying if you know they're wrong, but odds are most of the viewership isn't going to notice. However, in the case of Holmes it is IC, even if not as much to blend in as, he spends enough time explaining things, maybe he doesn't want to explain his terminology as well?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think he'd have to be doing it on purpose, language is just like that. Calling a cell phone a "mobile" in America is pretty much unheard of, and if you hear one term over and over, you're going to start using it yourself.