peoriapeoriawhereart: in red serge Benton looks askance (Benton looks back)
peoriapeoriawhereart ([personal profile] peoriapeoriawhereart) wrote in [personal profile] noracharles 2009-09-11 04:37 am (UTC)

I am a little confused (I've not followed the links) but I would say

Demanding that a non-native speaker of English either stop posting or accept an anglophone gatekeeper is wrong

and

calling out an author for peppering their fic with babelfished non-English phrases as exotic decoration with no respect or regard as appropriate.

That said, I reserve the right to bail on any fic that's incomprehensible, though I find that more likely from native speakers of English, and I can wish within my own head never to have an American character refer to their lounge (now, if it's Star Fleet, I don't care. But it is jarring when Ray Vecchio or Jack O'Neill does it.) for 'living room'.

I shamelessly use my friends (after appropriate 'bribes') so I can get appropriate non-English phrases to stagedress my fics. Of course, I have rather shamelessly foisted Tracy onto the Maori...

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