[ SECRET POST #2638 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2638 ⌋

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

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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 ].
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Comments

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.