[ SECRET POST #2252 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2252 ⌋

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

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[Billie Piper - Doctor Who/Secret Diary of a Call Girl]


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03.
[Steam Powered Giraffe]


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04.
[Teen Wolf]


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05.
[Kuroko no Basket]


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06.
[Princess Tutu]


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07.
[Kuroshitsuji]


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08.
[Queer as Folk]


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09.
[The Reward]


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10.
[Spartacus: War of the Damned]


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11.
[The Following]


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12.
[Les dossiers du Professeur Bell]


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13.
[Misfits]


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14.
[Saint's Row The Third]


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15.
[Penn and Teller]


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[Harry Potter]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 04 pages, 093 secrets from Secret Submission Post #322.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

An ESL friend of mine once mistakenly referred to people of color as "colored people" because she didn't understand the cultural connotations and saw only a semantic difference.

Needless to say, she was completely ostracized from the English-speaking communities she'd been participating in and was branded with a reputation as someone who uses racist slurs.

And that is why you get a native speaker to check your syntax for you.

[(Anonymous)]

as an ESL I find it curious that "people of color" is okay, but "colored people" isn't (apparently? idk if it has changed recently)

I will go with whatever doesn't offend people, of course, but I still found it curious

[(Anonymous)]

"Colored people" as a racial descriptor has been loaded by its historical usage, basically. "People of color" lacks the negative connotation.

[(Anonymous)]

Was it in a bigger work, like a fic or an essay, or was it in a comment? I mean, I can see both happening, but I'd feel bad telling someone that someone should proof read all their comments (like say this one) because it seems all it would do is discourage people who are learning English from participating in informal ways.

[(Anonymous)]

Native speaker to check your syntax for you in what context? It's pretty much impossible to do that in most cases, apart from essay writing and the like, so it would pretty much required ESL speakers to limit our written (?) communication to a bare minimum.

I also find the English-speaking communities you're referring to as rather uncompromising and severe if they were actually aware she was an ESL speaker.