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Nora Charles ([personal profile] noracharles) wrote 2010-03-04 10:07 pm (UTC)

You're right about that. And that's a good example, with the Merlin fandom. I've noticed that too: Only the British fans seem to ever comment on the class thing. I especially noticed if after the episode with the troll who marries Uther, because I found the use of dialect offensive, and I would normally expect my reading list to be all over that.

But understanding something because you think carefully about it is not the same as understanding something on a gut level. You couldn't have known, because I didn't link, but the above post was written in reaction to this post by lian where she encourages everyone to try to write fic in their native language because they just might feel more of an emotional connection and be able to express things with greater emotional depth. I meant to reply to her post, but then I felt my comment had moved too far off topic so I posted it here instead.

So anyway, my extremely well-hidden point was that there might very well be an audience capable of reading in a mixture of Danish and English, but that emotional oomph that writing in Danglish would give me would not translate to the readers, so I might as well write purely in English or purely in Danish.

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