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posted by [identity profile] laurie-ky.livejournal.com at 04:19am on 22/12/2007
Well, I'm not much a speller in either British or American English. I thought that words with the u in them like colour were just a variation. I didn't know until recently, that they were British spelling. That doesn't bother me at all. I've been known to spell with the u, and I'm American.

That said, vocabulary does through me off sometimes, or the way something is phrased, because I have to translate it and it takes me out of the story. The one that gets me the most is when people are in hospital. Americans never say that. We say sombody is in the hospital. That one stops me dead every time,

I can live with it, but you wanted to know what I thought.

I've really enjoyed Mab Brown's recent regency J/B story with the vocabulary from that area. I guess where ever uou want to stick Jim and Blair in space and time should influence your phrasings. [livejournal.com profile] starwatcher's idea was good about the header. You can do what feels right to you and let it be the reader's choice about reading or not. I'll read your stories if you write them n latin. ( after I find a latin text book)

Forgive me if I made any typo's here, I can hardly see the typing, its really tiny and light.
Laurie
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posted by [identity profile] t-verano.livejournal.com at 05:16am on 22/12/2007
Do you use Firefox for your browser? If you do, you can hold down the Ctrl key and hit the "=" a couple of times to increase the size of all the text in that browser window (Ctrl and the "-" will make things smaller).

::adores Firefox for this and many other reasons::
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posted by [identity profile] laurie-ky.livejournal.com at 05:53am on 22/12/2007
Holy shit, it sure does. I think from the surprise of the type jumping to such a larger size, I'll be able to remember this. Thank you!
Laurie
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posted by [identity profile] t-verano.livejournal.com at 06:02am on 22/12/2007
::pets Firefox lovingly:: You're welcome!
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 10:56am on 22/12/2007
Thanks from me too - I didn;t know what one either. ::smooches TV like the shameless doxy she is::
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posted by [identity profile] t-verano.livejournal.com at 11:43am on 22/12/2007
::smooches you back::

Firefox rules. Rocks. Rocks and rules?
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posted by [identity profile] gillyp.livejournal.com at 11:00am on 22/12/2007
'in hospital.'
No argument from me on that one - I totally agree that idioms and slang and turns of phrase have to be right for the nationality of the characters - my concern is only with the way thingfs are spelled. I personally don;t think it matters a bit if American characters are spelled British so long as the words they're speaking are right - others do think the spelling matters.

Just trying to get to the bottom of why people think that.

And after 6 years of school classics, rest assured, I will *never* write a story in Latin (man, I was glad to put that all behind me) *G*
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