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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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Northwestern

[octopedingenue]

Did she get into/apply to Northwestern, or was Northwestern just one of the schools that Joyce mentioned she could get into, which is how I remember it? I would've thought I'd remember and bitterly resent it to the grave, you already beat my SAT scores, Buffy, leave me some dignity! if she'd actually gotten in.

Congratulations on getting into Northwestern! That's really awesome for you. :)

Re: Northwestern

[metalphoenix.livejournal.com]

Yea, she did get in. In Choices, Joyce gets really happy for her and talks about her future, and then calls her relatives in Chicago. She also tells Giles who gets really happy for her too, but Wes tells her she can't. And then, she learns that she can't leave, and Willow agrees to stay with her even though she could go to Oxford, and aww, it's all happy. ^_^

And thanks! I'm really excited about going.