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[doyle]

Hmm. Looking through some old BBF discussion and I saw this comment by Gyrus (whose LJ handle I forget, sorry):

(For example, I recently read a fic in which something bad happens and Giles tries to tell Buffy that there was no way she could have anticipated it. She replies, "But I should've done!" That just looks weird to a Yank like me.)

I'm sure I'm guilty of using that myself. Why's it wrong? Should it be 'shoulda' instead of should've?

...any other glaring errors any of you have noticed non-Americans making? Because god knows I could go on for pages in obsessive Brit-picking of both Harry Potter fics and Buffy fics set in England (the language thing I get, but some of the cultural stuff, the 'my character's British so they've never heard of ___' : we do have pizzas and action movies and strange flavours of chips/crisps in Britain and Ireland, I promise you)

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[amberwaves2.livejournal.com]

Do you have those odd bologna-flavoured chips? I had some in Germany. Nobody could figure out what they were, but the bag said bolongese, which we translated as bologna. We're possibly horribly wrong, but here's hoping it's a European thing.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Can't say as I've ever heard of those... I'm scratching my head wondering what those could be.

[amberwaves2.livejournal.com]

I fear it shall remain an unsolved mystery.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I know. There's a Lidl near me, they're German-run, I'll see if they have any of those the next time I'm in.

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Bolognese=bologna? I thought that was a sort of sausage...bolognese is the sort of tomatato stuff you get with spaghetti, is it not?