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As someone who reads fantasy fiction a lot, honestly I'd prefer if I read everything in American English. The biggest thing that gets me is e.g. "defence" inste
by RheingoldRiver 3y ago
As someone who reads fantasy fiction a lot, honestly I'd prefer if I read everything in American English. The biggest thing that gets me is e.g. "defence" instead of "defense" and other places where British English uses a 'c' instead of an 's'. It seriously diminishes the immersion for me, even if I've read probably 50+ books with the version I'm not used to by now.
It's never stopped me from reading a book before, but it does diminish my enjoyment quite a bit. For nonfiction, I don't care, I'm reading actively regardless. But when reading passively for enjoyment, it's noticeable and irritating.
- I_am_uncreative 3y ago...what? Why would this make a difference?
- OJFord 3y agoA differense, please, GP's reading.
- lmm 3y agoI've found this jarring only in one case: the dub of Mary and the Witch's Flower, where the setting was an emphatically English-style public school, the lead character's VA had (or was using) a strong Home Counties accent, but the lines were full of US-only terms like "Somophore". It just felt horribly fake (even in a fantasy story!) because you'd never see those things together in real life.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> but the lines were full of US-only terms like "Somophore" “Sophomore”, maybe?
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoSomophore is the same thing but they carry flags with them everywhere.
- lmm 3y agoOh probably, I don't really speak American and it was a while ago.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoFor fantaſy, eſpecially, I diſagree. When I'm in charge, the long-ſ will be mandatory in any ſtory involving magick, to better ſhew the hiſtorical baſis of the mythology (unleſs, of courſe, a ſkinwalker were to be involved, in which caſe American ſpellings are indeed preferred)
- tazjin 3y agoФор бетер іммерсіон, ол тектс ін сторіес И ред шѵд бе урітен уіþ олд сирілік летерс, регардлес ов þе лангѵадж.
- adhesive_wombat 3y ago𐡅𐡉 𐡍𐡕 𐡀𐡓𐡌𐡉𐡊
- Lex-2008 3y agoᚳᚫᚾ᛫ᛁ᛫ᚫᛞᛞ᛫ᚫ᛫ᛒᛁᛏ᛫ᚩᚠ᛫ᚱᚢᚾᛖᛋ᛫ᛏᚩ᛫ᛏᚻᛖ᛫ᛗᛁᛉ?
- weregiraffe 3y agoפור טקסטס סט ין אנשיאנט טיימס, אונלי עברית וילל דו.
- names_are_hard 3y agoIncredible. I sent that to Google translate and it translated fairly well. (For those who can't read it - the text is English transliterated into Hebrew script, not actually Hebrew. I'm impressed that Google managed to make sense of it)
- dullcrisp 3y agoI think you’re on to something
- sk0g 3y ago> уіþ Was the thorn really a part of old Cyrillic? Would make some sense given the shared history, but still. > И I struggled for a bit with this one, but I don't know of a better way to represent it other then "ai" in Cyrillic I guess. The "ѵ" is interesting too, never seen that before since you can make do with the sorta B-looking letter instead.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> seriously diminishes the immersion for me Upvoting because this is seriously interesting. I can see old or Tolkien English being a hurdle, so I relate to what you’re saying. But small changes in diction tend to draw me into the world, by othering it from the familiar.
- RheingoldRiver 3y agoI think it might be partially because I've done & currently do some copyediting work. So I'm pretty trained to see any grammar or spelling mistake. To be clear, it's not the difference in language that bothers me, just words that are spelled differently from American English. I literally can't not see them.
- celu 3y agoFor me, it's reading words like 'centre' and 'colour' or 'practise' because I can't help but read them as 'sen-trey', 'col-ore' and 'prac-tize'