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3 Jul 2005 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mayoraaseiRandom gripe:
If you're writing fantasy/alternative world, check your language please. Common expressions like "Gee" or "Geez" or "Christ!" or "OMG" shouldn't go anywhere near your characters, unless they happened to also have had a Jesus Christ son of God ==;
That also goes for expressions rooted in our modern culture, like "gay" or "queer" or "punk" or "cool"...
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Yes, that's right, that includes "he's so cool" and "she's so hot", expressions reserved for something to do with temperature, thank you.
If you're going to have a character that speaks slang, make up your own slangs, or at least check for their origins. If it has anything remotely to do with electricity in a decidedly non electricity world (i.e. "he's all wired up" or "his brain's short-circuiting" or "the experience was electrifying!"), umm...no. Unless you're Terry Pratchett =P
If you're writing fantasy/alternative world, check your language please. Common expressions like "Gee" or "Geez" or "Christ!" or "OMG" shouldn't go anywhere near your characters, unless they happened to also have had a Jesus Christ son of God ==;
That also goes for expressions rooted in our modern culture, like "gay" or "queer" or "punk" or "cool"...
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Yes, that's right, that includes "he's so cool" and "she's so hot", expressions reserved for something to do with temperature, thank you.
If you're going to have a character that speaks slang, make up your own slangs, or at least check for their origins. If it has anything remotely to do with electricity in a decidedly non electricity world (i.e. "he's all wired up" or "his brain's short-circuiting" or "the experience was electrifying!"), umm...no. Unless you're Terry Pratchett =P
