rhmorrison, ROFL!! That's awesome! And yes, I agree, inappropriate reactions suck. Sometimes they're needed, but most of the time they just ruin things.
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Originally Posted by Xanthe
I give extra kudos to authors who have their characters speak English (or Standard  ) but who tend to lapse into using their native grammatical rules when stressed. That tells me the reader that they have actually given some thought to the culture of the character. |
lol, wow, I like that. I've done that a few times myself, but I don't use it that heavily. Now that you mention it, I should have my one Russian character start swearing at a guy in Russian at some point, but have his universal translator screw it up for him so that he gets in trouble. lol.