Well, if it's a cultural slip, I won't beat on it too much.
As a non-Brit, to me it just reads archaic, especially when none of the wordage around it seems to match.
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'Bushwhacked'
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Juliebird - Jan 09, 2011 3:51:42 pm PST #16933 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
§ ita § - Jan 09, 2011 4:00:26 pm PST #16934 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
As long as you don't give it to me from the POV of a non-British character, I don't mind (eta: it's not archaic, just across the pond). It's just a word. But there are American words that are inappropriate for the boys too. I just read Dean saying "whirligig" and it kinda stood out for me. But maybe that's more common than I imagine.
Juliebird - Jan 09, 2011 4:02:57 pm PST #16935 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I've seen whilst in several different narrative POVs, some of them might have been the boys, and they may have even said it out loud.
§ ita § - Jan 09, 2011 4:15:43 pm PST #16936 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Then someone needs some Ameripicking, stat.
Amy - Jan 09, 2011 4:47:51 pm PST #16937 of 30002
Because books.
Britishisms throw me out of a story so fast, especially when it's Dean or Sam's POV. I read a lovely one yesterday, and got to a place where Dean was talking about "sewing on a proper button" and I blinked.
It's such a stupid little thing, but there are so many Dean!words and ways to phrase things, and that's just not one of them.
§ ita § - Jan 09, 2011 4:55:56 pm PST #16938 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I have to admit, I'm pretty bad at regional English. I always spot when someone spells like me, but I learnt to speak in so many places that I have no idea what's appropriate for where. If they say it in Jamaica, Canada, Britain, the Midwest or Cali, I'm probably good with it, and it takes some thinking to make sure it's not right for a generically American character.
(i.e. "proper button" does not twig anything for me at all. If Sam went off to university, well, that's all very sensible of him)
Amy - Jan 09, 2011 4:58:47 pm PST #16939 of 30002
Because books.
Dean might say "sew a button on properly," but very few Americans of his background use "proper" before a noun i.e. a "proper coat" or a "proper kitchen" or whatever. It's just not common.
Laga - Jan 09, 2011 5:03:24 pm PST #16940 of 30002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I imagine if I wrote Whofic I'd inadvertently use a word or phrase that only yanks use.
Beverly - Jan 09, 2011 11:05:03 pm PST #16941 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Marcia - Jan 10, 2011 1:32:50 am PST #16942 of 30002
Kneel before Glod. ~Stephen Colbert
Wow, that is indeed cool, Beverly!