Huh.
Harken: You fought with Captain Reynolds in the war? Zoe: Fought with a lot of people in the war. Harken: And your husband? Zoe: Fight with him sometimes, too.
'Bushwhacked'
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brenda m - Jul 13, 2011 10:52:49 am PDT #7102 of 10434
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Vonnie K - Jul 13, 2011 11:45:26 am PDT #7103 of 10434
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
What would they say in its place though?? "Huh" strikes me as fairly universal to me. Come to think of it, I use it to express puzzlement when I'm speaking to my family in Korean.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2011 11:47:06 am PDT #7104 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wot?
Okay, only some of them.
Dana - Jul 13, 2011 11:48:26 am PDT #7105 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Blimey!
Vonnie K - Jul 13, 2011 11:53:37 am PDT #7106 of 10434
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
But "huh" is... I dunno. More subdued and less emphatic. There is a contemplative quality to the puzzlement. It's a super-useful term! Almost as useful as "eh", which I use all the time. Next, you're gonna tell me Brits don't use "eh" either!
Consuela - Jul 13, 2011 11:55:20 am PDT #7107 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I actually did switch out "Huh." for "Blimey," but I really really don't like it. Gonna have to think on that.
It's also got to be chronologically-appropriate, as we're talking about English schoolkids in 1939. Argh.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2011 11:56:50 am PDT #7108 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"Wot?" doesn't have to be emphatic. But, more seriously, I think I'd probably have said "What?" or "What's that?" when I was at my most British, rather than "Huh?"
Not that I've ever thought about it beforehand. I would be the worst Ameri or Britpicker EVER. I could Jampick, though. Kinda.
§ ita § - Jul 13, 2011 11:58:25 am PDT #7109 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I actually did switch out "Huh." for "Blimey,"
Are they Cockney? Did your beta suggest that? That does make me remember "Cor!" which I might have said out of surprise, but not questioning.
Calli - Jul 13, 2011 11:58:49 am PDT #7110 of 10434
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Maybe, "Hmmm"?
Vonnie K - Jul 13, 2011 12:01:03 pm PDT #7111 of 10434
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
It's also got to be chronologically-appropriate, as we're talking about English schoolkids in 1939.
Oh, right. This is Narnia. I'm, like, the only person around who's never read a single Narnia book. I think I might have watched an animated version of the first book that was made back in the 1970's when I was wee (dubbed, of course.) It's like that time when I didn't know what the hell "Where the Wild Things Were" was and had people look at me askance.