No, no no no, I am with you every step of the way.
One of the reasons that I did not write much Harry Potter is that I knew I couldn't do the British voice. And so I left well enough alone.
What gets me every time is when Sam or Dean say "meant to" instead of "supposed to." "We're meant to burn the bones after salting them, Pip Sammy." LOL I don't know why, but that particular construction really lifts me out of a piece.
Also, any attempt at dialect or to phonetically render speech is pretty much an immediate ticket to the backbutton.
Oh man, the way I speak when I'm not teaching or in a professional setting is pretty much hick overload. From "ever which way" to "stobs" as a garbled version of staves, I have a firmly red neck. Alas.
SPN, with its Greater Purpose Behind the Events, is one place where I could see "we're meant to burn the bones"--certainly a lot more than "'Pembleton, you're meant to testify on April 8th in the Wendle case,'" Gee said."
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One of the reasons that I did not write much Harry Potter is that I knew I couldn't do the British voice. And so I left well enough alone.
What gets me every time is when Sam or Dean say "meant to" instead of "supposed to." "We're meant to burn the bones after salting them,
PipSammy." LOL I don't know why, but that particular construction really lifts me out of a piece.Also, any attempt at dialect or to phonetically render speech is pretty much an immediate ticket to the backbutton.
Oh man, the way I speak when I'm not teaching or in a professional setting is pretty much hick overload. From "ever which way" to "stobs" as a garbled version of staves, I have a firmly red neck. Alas.
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