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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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[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I wondered that myself about her record and extracurricular activities: I knew early on that I wanted to go to my local university, and that I was applying for a course that's not fully subscribed, and my school still made me join the choir and the debate team and stuff so that I'd have something to put on my application.

I tend to fanwank that the Council of Watchers altered her score, though I'm not sure why they would...