Pet Peeves: The letter P does not have to be explained.

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Listen Fic-Writers,

You don't have to tell me that someone is "popping the 'p'" when they say "yup" - it's in the word. Try saying "yup" WITHOUT popping the P. Seriously, TRY IT. YOU CAN'T.It's a P they POP, that's what Ps DO! When you take the time to unnecessarily explain it, it's like writing:"Shhh" he said, making a shushing noise with his

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So, basically you're saying that you say "YePUH" because dude, that just makes me hate it more. Because not only is it unnecessary, it sounds obnoxious.

Anyway, maybe this is just a personal taste thing then - thus making it a pet peeve, but to me, in the context of all the conversation and knowing the character, I know exactly how that P is going to sound without it having to be explained to me.

I never came across it in SPN fic, I gotta say. This is a Teen Wolf fandom phenomena that is WIDE-SPREAD and SUPER ANNOYINNG (to me.)

Seriously, SO ANNOYING.

But yeah, maybe they're right, maybe it DOES require extra explanation to everyone who is not me so I am the only one that is annoyed by it.

To me, it's always going to sound like unnecessary over explaining. Seriously, the more I say "yup" to myself, there is no possible alternative but to pronounce the p. It's not like the final t or d in a word, which I can swallow. I HAVE to say the P. So, maybe it's just unnecessary if you have a Canadian accent and there are people in the states that have a magical ability not to say the letter p? I don't know.

Now I'm just rambling. It's 3:40am. I need to go to bed.

Railway, HELLO! *waves*

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It may indeed be an accent thing--I often end up turning the p in "yep" and "nope" into a glottal stop (so it's more like "ye'," as opposed to "yeah"). And it is obnoxious, usually intentionally so, which is why it's usually Gabriel's schtick in my fics.

ETA: Now that I think about it, the way Jensen says "Nope" in the new "Fist Bump" promo is about the way I normally pronounce it.

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ETA: Now that I think about it, the way Jensen says "Nope" in the new "Fist Bump" promo is about the way I normally pronounce it.

Definitely an accent thing then, because if I were to transcribe that video, I would have written that Jensen just says "No" - I don't hear a P, so the P doesn't get written in.