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Post by magnusgreel on Apr 8, 2009 5:08:58 GMT
I'd like to issue a standing invitation to all Brits here, to tell me whenever I write something in fanfic for UK characters which doesn't ring true. I'll never learn unless you correct and punish me mercilessly.
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Post by clocketpatch on Apr 8, 2009 6:18:09 GMT
Aye, I'd like to add my voice to this plea. Wherever the Americanisms (or Canadianisms) pop up out of place please help me throttle my fic back into proper characterisation!
Also, been meaning to ask you for a while JJPOR, and now seems as good a time as any: if I ever get 'round to writing that fic with Hex in it would you mind being my Liverpudlian accent and things-to-see-and-do-in-that-city consultant?
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Post by jjpor on Apr 8, 2009 20:22:47 GMT
Well, I'll be on the lookout in future for that kind of thing and be sure to mention anything that seems a little bit off-kilter to me. I've written fic featuring "American" characters in the past, and I'm sure some of them probably sounded like something out of the Gunfighters to those in the know (I'm thinking of that hardcase Sheriff in the Four-and-the-hippies thing I wrote last year for some reason).
As regarding Hex; sure, I'd be glad to help you lend a little local colour if you wanted; I have only a very nodding acquaintance with the character and the audios he appears in, but I'd give it a go. I think the important thing is not to go "overboard" in that sort of thing until he becomes a caricature. For some reason, I am reminded of the Anfield Rap; there's actually some late-80s-era Liverpudlianisms I remember people using all too well on display there. One of Paul McGann's brothers and Harry Enfield used to do a comedy sketch called The Scousers which was funny if a bit hard to take sometimes. "Caarm down, la! Caarm down!"* and "Dee do doh, don't dee doh?"** Might be funny to have a bit of North-South antagonism between him and Ace (her being a Londoner, and that kind of thing being especially bitter in the 80s when she's from).
*"Calm yourself, my good man! Calm down now!"
**They do though, don't they, though?"
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Post by primsong on Apr 10, 2009 4:30:03 GMT
I meekly submit myself to this process as well - if you see anything, please do let me know - The last thing I want to have is some ridiculously Yankee thing in the middle of a story that distracts the reader. Thank you!
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Post by jjpor on Apr 10, 2009 19:05:34 GMT
Will do!
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