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tj_roweI just got a review. (It's always sparked by that, isn't it?)
Only thing I see is saying that Raimundo was bouncing a football on his knee. Either you meant that he was bouncing a soccerball on his knee, or you were mixing spanish with english...(football means soccer in spanish, unless you say 'american football,' then it means...well, football. I don't think I explained that very wel...)
My reply: I think you mean that I was confusing English and -American-. I am English, therefore I use the English words. From England. It should be made plain by the abundance of 'u's scattered around which variation of the language I am using. If I meant 'american football' I would say 'Rugby ball' (refering to the balls. If it was the game, it would just be Rugby).
Ugh, sorry to be snarky. But this sort of thing really gets on my nerves.
Am I being fair? After all, the majority of ff.net fanthings *are* American, but targeting an audience of American teenagers who don't even know the variations in their own language does seem to be selling out more-than-a-little-bit.
And really: Does it make that much difference for a fanthing to be picturing a rugger ball rather than a football? Generally I try to use non-ambiguous words anyway, and I don't want to lecture on 'Football is a game played by two teams, both of which are trying to get the ball to the other end' and that the variations are 'soccer football' with a round ball and 'rugby football' with a rugger ball and one country decided to shorten one one way and one the other and the other country did it the opposite way around, because I have no interest in football of any description and he knows what kind of balls Raimundo plays with and that I'm British so is it really that hard to figure out what's meant?
*deep breath*
Bah Humbug.
Only thing I see is saying that Raimundo was bouncing a football on his knee. Either you meant that he was bouncing a soccerball on his knee, or you were mixing spanish with english...(football means soccer in spanish, unless you say 'american football,' then it means...well, football. I don't think I explained that very wel...)
My reply: I think you mean that I was confusing English and -American-. I am English, therefore I use the English words. From England. It should be made plain by the abundance of 'u's scattered around which variation of the language I am using. If I meant 'american football' I would say 'Rugby ball' (refering to the balls. If it was the game, it would just be Rugby).
Ugh, sorry to be snarky. But this sort of thing really gets on my nerves.
Am I being fair? After all, the majority of ff.net fanthings *are* American, but targeting an audience of American teenagers who don't even know the variations in their own language does seem to be selling out more-than-a-little-bit.
And really: Does it make that much difference for a fanthing to be picturing a rugger ball rather than a football? Generally I try to use non-ambiguous words anyway, and I don't want to lecture on 'Football is a game played by two teams, both of which are trying to get the ball to the other end' and that the variations are 'soccer football' with a round ball and 'rugby football' with a rugger ball and one country decided to shorten one one way and one the other and the other country did it the opposite way around, because I have no interest in football of any description and he knows what kind of balls Raimundo plays with and that I'm British so is it really that hard to figure out what's meant?
*deep breath*
Bah Humbug.
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Date: 2006-07-25 06:53 pm (UTC)Getting angry only exaserbates (I so spelled that right... >_>) the ploblem.