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Hey, all! I am writing a story in which one of the main characters is from Glasgow and has been living in London for the past 12 years. She's in her late 20s, and I'm looking for some slang or phrases that I can throw in every now and again. One I'm looking for specifically is a word or phrase that means that she's playfully teasing someone, but I ( Read more... )

I'm translating my story, originally written in Russian, into English. Part of the setting has a distinct Slavic flavour, which I really want to preserve, but, being bilingual, I have issues appreciating just how confusing all my translations and transcriptions look to anglophone speakers ( Read more... )

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I have a scene set in 1971 in the Boston area, where an adult woman, a recent immigrant from Australia, is talking to a teenager that she is friendly with, but doesn’t know very well.

“Well said, Miss Women’s Lib of 1971.” Margaret chuckled...

Cassie felt her ears get warm. “I didn’t mean-”

“It’s all right,” Margaret interrupted. “I was just-taking ( Read more... )

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I’ve written a short science fiction story, set in contemporary London.  I’m in the process of submitting it to magazines and websites that publish short sci-fi, but there’s something that’s puzzling me.  A fair few of the publications ask that the content of the piece be suitable for a PG-13 audience, in particular in regards to the ( Read more... )

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Hello there, LD!

I am bringing to you a dillema that I hope to get solved.

First thing, English is not my first language.

That said, I basicaly have been trying to understand the difference between the terms of endearment "Papa" and "Dad" (or "Daddy").

( In which I reveal more that I would like about the story, but it is necessary, and I brace myself to be called crazy. Mention of fictional (not canon) D/s dynamic. )

I’m writing a story where the viewpoint character is an Acadian from Nova Scotia, and I want to make sure his English vocabulary is appropriate for that background. In particular, I would like to have the appropriate terms in that dialect for:

• backpack (esp. the kind that an infantry soldier would carry)
  
• prison
  
• to break out of prison
  
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