[ SECRET POST #2307 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #2307 ⌋

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

01.


__________________________________________________



02.


__________________________________________________



03.


__________________________________________________



04.


__________________________________________________



05.


__________________________________________________



06.


__________________________________________________



07.


__________________________________________________



08.


__________________________________________________



09.


__________________________________________________



10. [tb1]


__________________________________________________



11.


__________________________________________________



12.


__________________________________________________



13.


__________________________________________________



14.


__________________________________________________



15.


__________________________________________________




















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 101 secrets from Secret Submission Post #330.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'd settle for a fanfic that just kept dialogue and speech patterns in character. For the love of god stop having anyone who isn't either a cowboy or a teenager using the word "figured" especially if they are English or British.

[(Anonymous)]

In my experienced "figured" is used very commonly in America across all age groups. I feel you on it being wrong in British though, and vice-versa; I was once reading a fic about an American character who said "I've worked that out for myself, thanks" where she really should have said "I figured that out for myself, thanks". Quite jarring.

[inkdust]

Yeah this.

[bur]

..."worked it out' is a British turn of phrase? ...cuz I live in like, dead center US and we use that all the time.

[hateart]

I'm American and both quotes sound normal to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Put me down as an American who doesn't get how "worked that out" is problematic.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Not problematic, but apparently British? I think this is a YMMV thing, because I hear "figured it out" and "worked it out" all the time.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, um, I use that all the time. Just as much as figured. And I'm from Texas.

[(Anonymous)]

Not a cowboy, not a teenager, graduated from a highly selective college, have a Masters degree, and I use the word "figured" in real life.

Your dialect is not everyone's dialect. Deal with it.

[(Anonymous)]

Same here on all points.

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like you have a sloppy way of speaking, what was your background before lucking out with college?

[(Anonymous)]

Looks as if you don't know how to properly use punctuation. What was your background before lucking out with becoming literate?

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds like you're kind of a dick.

[(Anonymous)]

DA - middle class white suburbanite from California, and I say "figured" all the time, not that "worked it out" would be jarring to hear, either. (I also say, "I figured," quite a bit.)

I get that American dialects vary wildly, but this is not a particular quirk that has been pointed out to me as strictly regional o_O

[(Anonymous)]

So after one hits the age of 20, he or she is not allowed to use the word "figured?"

Who the fuck are you and why the fuck do you have such a ridiculous opinion about a word?

[(Anonymous)]

You complain about fairly common word usage but don't capitalize God? :/ I'm thinking you might not be the authority on these things.

[(Anonymous)]

God is only capitalized at the start of a sentence you know.

[(Anonymous)]

It's always capitalized when referring to the specific god named God. The generic terms "god" and "gods" aren't always capitalized, but seeing as the above OP says "for the love of god" (a phrase referring specifically to the Judeo-Christian god), it should be capitalized.

[visp]

Well, that there is more a question of philosophy than grammar.

[(Anonymous)]

Not really. If you're referring to a god whose name is "God," you capitalize it regardless of whether you think the god named God exists or not.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't capitalize "god" because I don't believe in god.

Get off your high horse, theist.

[kamino_neko]

Proper names, which includes nicknames, kennings, titles-used-as-names, and the names of fictional characters, get capitalized.

'God', when referring to the Abrahamic deity, is a name (specifically a title used as a name as a form of circumlocution around his actual name). It gets capitalized.

[(Anonymous)]

So, do you just not capitalize the names of fictional characters, then?

God is a name in this case. Capitalize it.

[silverau]

That's still the proper way to write it whether you believe in God or not. Get off YOUR high horse.

[(Anonymous)]

NA

I capitalize God if I'm saying "he believed deeply in God" or "they believed God had intervened" or even "in God we trust".

I don't capitalize it if I'm saying "for god's sake" or "for the love of god" or "goddammit" or otherwise using it as an exclamation. Maybe if I don't capitalize, it doesn't count as taking the Lord's name (er, title) in vain? I'm not actually referring to God, or a god, I'm expressing emphasis.