Xander ,'Beneath You'
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
Allegedly, anyway. (ducking, running, fearing being chased by UKistas)
not pissed off, but puzzled.
I think (not certain, mind you), that it was our (one half mine, since I'm only half) personal normality/normalcy being poked there, rather than the linguistic end.
No, hon, it was a feeble joke cause you didn't " normality. So it seemed like you were saying you were all normal in the UK. My bad. So I was all "That's not what I heard," or something. Pretty naff, really.
Connie, I've had to make an actual effort over the years to tailor my spellings to the area in which I'm writing things down. College was UK, so that was no problem, but I'd drive NY copy editors insane while galley prep was going on. "-or? -our? make up your mind, lady!"
because I get sloppy, and I forget.
This is interesting, partly because I use "gotten" as well.
Now I'm wondering if it's because of my reading habits... I learned most of my language from books and have startled more than one person by using something archaic that I didn't know was archaic because it was Just Used in the book I read (sure, written in the 1700s, but I don't get your point). At least I stopped using phonics to determine pronunciation.
Pretty naff, really.
No, it's just me being dim. Dim dim dim. Like a thing that is dim. Eating Dim Sum. In a room with the curtains drawn. And no lightbulbs.
Ah, gray/grey, colour, flavour, judgement!
I love those words, though I always forget which gray is grey. I got very upset with one of my teachers in grade school for telling me colour was spelled wrong.
FayJay is so darling when she's flustered.
Oh, she's cute all the time.
To clarify - I believe that gotten is perfectly standard US usage. But it's archaic UK usage. Ditto normalcy.
feel like putting recommended music in with this.
But I won't.
A short note at the end of a piece saying "I was listening to such and such" would be lovely - Charles de Lint does that pretty often with his novels. Just please please please don't go the route of "during this particular scene, you MUST be listening to track X on CD blah" ...
... why yes, I once read and reviewed a novel that did just that. Said novel STILL holds the slot of "Worst Thing I've Ever Read. Ever."