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Weddings, anyone?
May. 4th, 2004 04:12 pmSo, I had to attend this little wedding in the family. The bride is a second cousin I'd never met until the wedding day: "…and she's your cousin from… " *cue toothy grin* And it's highly probable that I'll never meet her again in the future, but after all, she's a member of the family, and isn't it my duty to attend weddings in the family? *headdesk*
( Cut for some RLness )
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I've missed fandom (almost three days!), but looks like nothing interesting has been happening. No new fics (that I care about), no new chapters (at least, not the stories I've been reading), no new flamewars – nothing! Thankfully, the HP folks haven't been soinactive lazy, and there are quite a few fics that I need to catch up on, and some discussions I'd love to join.
Meanwhile, read this: How To Write Poor English. It's amusing. Read the comments with hilarious translation stories. Although, I'm sure I could tell you funnier stories than that. *g*
One thing that the author didn't mention was that, if you really want to be accurate, you'd have to know a little bit about the speech patterns of the native language of your character. Or at least, ask someone who does know. Because, a Frenchman wouldn't speak English the way a Russian does (and I'm talking about those who aren't fluent in English).
( Cut for some RLness )
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I've missed fandom (almost three days!), but looks like nothing interesting has been happening. No new fics (that I care about), no new chapters (at least, not the stories I've been reading), no new flamewars – nothing! Thankfully, the HP folks haven't been so
Meanwhile, read this: How To Write Poor English. It's amusing. Read the comments with hilarious translation stories. Although, I'm sure I could tell you funnier stories than that. *g*
One thing that the author didn't mention was that, if you really want to be accurate, you'd have to know a little bit about the speech patterns of the native language of your character. Or at least, ask someone who does know. Because, a Frenchman wouldn't speak English the way a Russian does (and I'm talking about those who aren't fluent in English).
