Entitled rants, etc.

[kuteki]

A. The Vampire Diaries is back! I had completely forgotten that ending, but oh wow that episode was intense!

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[raenbow]

This is why little_details exists. >:|

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[kuteki]

I know, that comm is so awesome! The thing is, I am not even talking about little details, if you have someone smoking in a pub in London, not knowing about the smoking ban, fair enough! If you have someone selling their house to pay their medical bills, and the whole fic is about their life on the street, that's when I get annoyed! (totally made those two examples up, but have seen worse)

[raenbow]

LOLOLOL SELLING THEIR HOUSE?! Oh dear.

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[kuteki]

I am so used to American slang, that pants doesn't even make me blink any more. Gotten is pretty bad, but say if you are writing about a British uni, and everything screams US college, I hate it! No one in this country shares bedrooms at uni, NO ONE. :( :(

I feel better now, haha.

And it really doesn't, also researching is fun!

We can do something else, what do you want to do?

[lauds]

Do you remember when we came out of male!Swan Lake screeching 'leather pants!' at each other? And it took me a while to go 'oh it's really strange we just used the American word'.

[kuteki]

True! But leather trousers just doesn't have the same ring to it. Leather pants is now a phrase. A phrase of awesome.

[harriet_vane]

If the writing is amazing or the story is incredible I can ignore it, but in general, when Spencer and Brendon put on trainers or someone (American) says "I have done," it throws me out badly. Same thing the other way; I don't want Sherlock Holmes to wear a sweater unless the story is overwhelmingly great otherwise.

[kuteki]

I didn't know 'I have done' was British specific, do you mean it as a response to a question such as 'Do you smoke?" or as part of a sentence like 'I have done my homework'? Are both unacceptable? What would the American phrase be?

And yeah, I keep reading if the writing is amazing, but I can't help getting annoyed anyway! Especially when it comes to University, as pretty much every single word related to that is different.

[harriet_vane]

An American would stick an "it" on the end. "Have you ever smoked?" "I've done it now and then." "I have done," sounds INCREDIBLY out of place in an American accent. (But I notice little things like that. And it's fine as "I have done my homework." Although I think Americans are more likely to use "did" than "have done" in general.) Same with "I did have." An American would stick an "it" on the end. (Although they'd probably say "I had it," instead.

Anyway. Just in general. Sorry for rambling. There is something so fundamentally different about high school and college between the US and the UK that I would never set a fic in either because I'd get everything wrong.

[kuteki]

Don't be sorry! This is exactly what I wanted to know, *makes notes* it's really interesting.

There really is, I feel like in Britain we have a general, if simplified and inaccurate, grasp of how things are in the US, because of countless movies and tv series, but the reverse simply isn't the case. And I don't mean that as a criticism!

[magic_at_mungos]

It depends on how irrational I'm feeling. If the fic is otherwise god, then I can continue reading but sometimes I just get grumpy.

[kuteki]

The one that set this rant off, was amazing otherwise, that's why everything in it being wrong made me even more annoyed. :( It kept throwing me off the story, I had to keep stopping!

[magic_at_mungos]

I'm more likely to stick with amazing fics but with ones that are just all right I have to stop

[solookup]

I wonder if people get annoyed that I use UK spelling when I write because I do that in Canada.

I wish I actually read J^2 based in Vancouver just to see how inaccurate things are.

But the lulziest one was JR Celski getting lost in Vancouver after a verbal fight and got lost because the buses here are all in French. T_________T It's Vancouver, not Montreal.

[kuteki]

Hee, I don't care about the spelling, as long as it's consistent within a fic! Is that normal for Canada? Sorry, I have no idea. /o\

You really don't, for me, reading fics set in London, or much worse Oxford can be so frustrating. I know it's petty, but I really can't help it!

[solookup]

I know a few people that are anal about keeping it UK-style and I do try my best to keep it spelled UK/Canadian way. But officially we do write Centre and Theatre, etc. in public places.

[kuteki]

Which one do you get taught in school, or were bought/some sort of hybrid acceptable?