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Grammar and Rich people in fanfiction
Feb. 13th, 2008 09:23 pmI hate spellchecker. Loathing is too soft a word for the feeling I bear it.
Why, you ask?
It's devolving grammar.
I know in my very bones that cold tea is properly called "iced tea" that a young lady in her teens may be referred to as a "teenaged girl," but my spell check wants me to drop the d and make the words nouns (or in the case of teenage, unfinished) rather than the adjectival known as a past participle.
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As to my second topic: I have already complained that rich people, when speaking of their homes, do not refer to them as mansions. They are houses. Houses the uninitiated may need a guide and native bearers to explore, but houses nonetheless. Mansion is an exterior description, house or home is an interior description by the person living there. I do make an exception for Lex Luthor because a) it really is the only castle in Smallville and b) the Luthors are parvenus.
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Had there been one rich person who behaved well, who didn't talk about people who "aren't one of us" in the story, I'd've been fine with it. Instead, we're supposed to sympathize with the only character who's truly badly behaved because he's normal and not like "them."
Oh, well.
Why, you ask?
It's devolving grammar.
I know in my very bones that cold tea is properly called "iced tea" that a young lady in her teens may be referred to as a "teenaged girl," but my spell check wants me to drop the d and make the words nouns (or in the case of teenage, unfinished) rather than the adjectival known as a past participle.
***
As to my second topic: I have already complained that rich people, when speaking of their homes, do not refer to them as mansions. They are houses. Houses the uninitiated may need a guide and native bearers to explore, but houses nonetheless. Mansion is an exterior description, house or home is an interior description by the person living there. I do make an exception for Lex Luthor because a) it really is the only castle in Smallville and b) the Luthors are parvenus.
( Read more... )
Had there been one rich person who behaved well, who didn't talk about people who "aren't one of us" in the story, I'd've been fine with it. Instead, we're supposed to sympathize with the only character who's truly badly behaved because he's normal and not like "them."
Oh, well.
