yes i used to complain about this on twitter all the time
Out of curiosity, are Brit-pickers not a thing anymore in HP fandom? (Or really, any fandom whose canon is set in the UK?) Back when I first entered HP fandom, it was pretty de rigueur to have a Brit-picker if one weren't British. But these days I read way too many fics that use AmEng terms like "ma'am", "grocery store", "faucet", "asshole", or "call", which never fail to throw me out of the fic, especially if it's a well-written fic.
Where are the fics with expressions such as "he was such a knob" or "she felt knackered" or "they took the piss"? Or, if people aren't going to use British slang, can they please refrain from AmEng slang?
(I was talking about this to my bb K. (who is USAmerican) and how I notice if an author uses "going to the store" rather than "going to the shop", for example, and she said that was something that she wouldn't have known or remembered. But it's always little things like this that reveal stuff, yeah?)
Same with Sherlock BBC fic. I do get how people who aren't familiar with BrEng won't notice things (I certainly never did before I went to the UK), but it's really glaringly obvious to people who are familiar with BrEng, and for me, at least, random bits of AmEng will ruin the rhythm of the fic for me. :(
British people aren't hard to find! Please get them to look over fics set in the UK! :( It's not like I'm asking for people to get British dialects correct!
/rant
Yes, I almost always refrain from reading fic set in China or involving Chinese characters for this reason. There was a really popular Chinese mythology fic written for Yuletide a few years back, and I couldn't get past the first few paragraphs because I found a (or maybe a few) glaring error(s) that could have easily been rectified by consulting a Chinese person.
Where are the fics with expressions such as "he was such a knob" or "she felt knackered" or "they took the piss"? Or, if people aren't going to use British slang, can they please refrain from AmEng slang?
(I was talking about this to my bb K. (who is USAmerican) and how I notice if an author uses "going to the store" rather than "going to the shop", for example, and she said that was something that she wouldn't have known or remembered. But it's always little things like this that reveal stuff, yeah?)
Same with Sherlock BBC fic. I do get how people who aren't familiar with BrEng won't notice things (I certainly never did before I went to the UK), but it's really glaringly obvious to people who are familiar with BrEng, and for me, at least, random bits of AmEng will ruin the rhythm of the fic for me. :(
British people aren't hard to find! Please get them to look over fics set in the UK! :( It's not like I'm asking for people to get British dialects correct!
/rant
Yes, I almost always refrain from reading fic set in China or involving Chinese characters for this reason. There was a really popular Chinese mythology fic written for Yuletide a few years back, and I couldn't get past the first few paragraphs because I found a (or maybe a few) glaring error(s) that could have easily been rectified by consulting a Chinese person.