and stomped on the floor just for fun

[musesfool]

You know, I get that many media fans are not sports fans, and really have no interest in the major league American team sports, but jesus, mary and joseph, baseball does not have halftime! Hockey does not have quarters! American football is played from September to February! You can't just throw in a random jumble of sports terms and the name of a

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[teand]

I'd be happy if I never ran across the the word "lounge" again while reading a fic set in America.

My thoughts on the DH varies although, as a fan of an AL team, I really don't mind it. Because it's so much fun watching your closer go on the DL because he sprained his toe while taking an at bat in an interleague game we were already winning fcol!

(Yes, I edited for a comma. We're still tied in the bottom of the 11th; what else do I have to do. *g*)

[musesfool]

I'd be happy if I never ran across the the word "lounge" again while reading a fic set in America.

Unless it's a verb! Or the characters are at poolside. *g*

Because it's so much fun watching your closer go on the DL because he sprained his toe while taking an at bat in an interleague game we were already winning fcol!

If pitchers knew how to bat and had to every five days, he wouldn't have hurt himself! (or it's less likely, though these guys these days, so fragile!)

[trinity_clare]

...How are people using the word "lounge" in a way that Americans don't? I can't think of any.

[eleanorb]

Americans always seem to use 'lounge room' when writing Britfic. It's one of those giveaways I always notice. I presume using it on its own in the USA WAS the mistake.

[lilacsigil]

Or they might be Australians - we say lounge room or living room interchangeably.

[penknife]

Well, and using it at all for "living room." It's a living room or a family room or maybe a den, but never a lounge, unless it's in something like an office building or a dorm. (In which case it's just a lounge, not a lounge room, so I'm not sure where that comes from.)

[teand]

In the UK it's lounge (and in Australia it's a lounge room; didn't know that) but in NA it's a living room. Or a family room. Or a rec room but that's a litle dated. Sometimes a "great room", particularly if you're a real estate agent. But never a lounge. It's the one Britism that seems to consistently slip past.