[ SECRET POST #2638 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2638 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 055 secrets from Secret Submission Post #377.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Fandom Gaffes

[kaijinscendre]

I made a secret about this one actually. When I first started reading Sherlock fic (the first British thing I read fic about), I thought chuffed mean turned on. So I would get really confused when John was chuffed about seeing Mrs. Hudson. Honestly, I still have to think about it for a couple of seconds.

Re: Fandom Gaffes

[blueonblue]

That's hilarious. If "chuffed" meant "turned on", it would completely change the meaning of every Wodehouse story.

Re: Fandom Gaffes

[(Anonymous)]

... Wow. On the one hand, I've no problem imagining, say, Bertie Wooster's set being cheerfully bi and turned on in every which direction, but if that WAS what chuffed meant then there are some truly interesting familial relationships and situational turn ons being implied 0.0

Re: Fandom Gaffes

[(Anonymous)]

From the UK English side: I read one Sherlock fic in which young Mycroft told off young Sherlock for his roughhousing. I thought it was a terribly clever and old-fashioned way for Mycroft to speak. I'd never heard the word before except in Victorian literature.

A year later I realised it's a common enough term in US English and the writer had been American. I felt a bit stupid.

Your chuffed story is way better.

Re: Fandom Gaffes

[kaijinscendre]

Which term was the American one you don't hear? Roughhouse?

Re: Fandom Gaffes

[(Anonymous)]

Roughhouse, yeah. Or am I wrong?

I heard it much later on an American reality TV series. The parents were telling their kids off for roughhousing in a completely serious tone, and nobody was going pfffft roughhousing, are you kidding me? Really, am I supposed to take that word seriously? So I figured it was a normal thing to say in the US.

Re: Fandom Gaffes

[nan]

Yeah, it's pretty common here.

Re: Fandom Gaffes

[kaijinscendre]

No, we use roughhouse quite often. What do you use in the UK?

Re: Fandom Gaffes

[(Anonymous)]

Mucking about. As in stop mucking about!

Roughhousing sounds both antiquated and hilarious.

Re: Fandom Gaffes

[kaijinscendre]

Mucking about sound hilarious to me. :P Like maybe you would use it if someone was playing in the mud? But when I think of the word "mucking" I think of cleaning out horse stalls.

Re: Fandom Gaffes

[(Anonymous)]

I think I remember that secret! Or at least, I seemed to remember something about thinking "chuffed" = "getting a chubby." That's the specific phrasing that is sticking in my mind.

Re: Fandom Gaffes

[kaijinscendre]

Yeah, that was me. /hides face