#non native speakers struggles

[dorlilymylovesss]

it's so hard to write a fic for me because first I need to write it in my mother tongue, edit it and then sit with books and google for a whole 3 hours just to do a normal translation 😩

[makemeimmortalwithahug]

I would like to propose "geistvoll" as the german equivalent for "brills" cause the words literally translates to "ghost-full"

[localclownbaby]

pisses me off that there is no formal or informal "you" in English. bc the transition from one to another in the context of sebaciel would be so fucking good. it feels unnatural for Sebastian to be informal with ciel but! if he is, it will be so easy to show it with a simple "ты" instead of "вы" 😡

at the same time I can appreciate the ambiguity of "you", it can mean fucking anything and it's kinda cool.

P. S. Ig the same effect can be achieved by just using his name instead of title but guysss it's different... 😕

[sunlikesdrawing]

Sometimes I'm about to fall asleep and then I remember that, for the longest time, I pronounced the far in faroff in my head as fair, and something deep inside me dies

[barschter000]

I am being infected with Edwardian slang by my old lit-reading boyfriend and the Letters Regarding Jeeves substack, and I can't help but apply it to TGAA to torture Barok with it.

He can stand Iris's Edwardian vocabulary (with her being a detective and a writer of serials, I feel like she'd easily pick it up in her businesses) and Albert's occasional "Barok, old bean" because it's his dear Iris and Albert after all, but Barok will not tolerate Herlock's "Tally ho!", "Pip pip!" and "Reapy, old horse!" and will refuse to speak to him until he returns to proper address and Standard English.

[loyal-house-of-lupin]

if anyone is ever curious why i'm only calling the coffee shop in my coffee shop au a coffee shop half of the time, and a café the other half...

It's mainly because a coffee shop in the netherlands doesn't sell coffee but something completely different.

and i'm just struggling to write it because it's so counter intuitive

[im-thekeeper]

I'm tempted to expand my David Haller propaganda into this new thing here 👀

But I kinda chose a comic book version as my only blorbo at some point and (let's be honest) I'm not very good at filling in all those empty spaces in the community template

In conclusion, DAVID HALLER FANDOM UNITE (please somebody create the community :') just dunno let it exist)

[offorestsongs]

sometimes being a non-native english speaker on the internet is just writing a fic and going "no no guys i know this is a bit bad but i'm such a good writer in my native language trust me guys i swear" the whole time except i have no way to prove it because it's not like anyone would you know, know my native language

[achillesuwu]

When every translators fail you, Wikipedia ability to change the language of the page got you

[remitiras]

To this day whenever I get confused between North and South or East vs West I just think about Pacifica Northwest and I remember which one's which.

[fiepige]

Heyo chapter 2 is here!

Summary:

“HOLY SH-” Miles and Gwen simultaneously turned to cover Pav’s mouth so as to not alert the creature in the middle of the carnage below them. The creature either didn’t hear him or it was too preoccupied with whatever it was doing. To his regret Miles soon realized what that was, as another wet snapping noise broke the silence once more. The creature was crouched down on all fours over what Miles assumed was the body of an officer, though it was so mutilated that it was hard to tell for sure. Its head was buried into the chest of the body beneath it, another wet snapping noise emerging as it pulled out a couple of ribs between its bloodied jaws... Or The Spider-Gang goes looking for Hobie. They don’t like what they find.

We finally get to meet the dude that gave me the motivation to write this fic in the first place!

[youraverageaemondsimp]

Okay so idk if anybody has said this but if you're a writer whose native language isn't English and when you're writing and you often find yourself using the same word over and over again, I recommend you google the synonyms for that certain word.

It seriously helps a lot by broadening your vocabulary because the meaning will be similar but it's not going to be the same word constantly, and if you wanna take it an extra step, you can view the antonyms as well, that way you'll be learning its opposition words too.

[dandunn]

I've mostly gotten over my grammar stickler ways from my youth because sometimes switching your/you're for the bit is funny and who give a shit anyway.

But boy is switching affect/effect common and boy does it piss me off.

[rayhantochtli]

God I love pokemon

[fuckwhoeverpickedallthefunnyurls]

"Button-up" "Button-down" what does that MEAN

[dumber-alek]

Maybe it's the slav in me but articles are so pointless. Who needs a definite article just say 'this' if you want to specify whether you mean it in a definite or indefinite way. Grow up