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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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Re: sorta off-topic

[indri]

I'm writing a fic at the moment about Illyria (and hence Fred) that's set in Texas. I lived in Austin for a couple of years but even so, I'm going to make all sorts of wrong assumptions. I may have another Texan lined up to beta, but if that falls through, would you be interested?

I don't know if you've read any of my stuff, it's at Blood and Weetabix if you want to look.

Sorry to hijack the thread, Doyle :(

We now return to our regular programming.

Re: sorta off-topic

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Hijack away! :)