Over on fanficrants someone has just related how she received a comment on her piece of fanfiction from an American, saying, "i saw on you're profile that you don't live in America so i know english isn't you're first language"
Her profile lists her as living in the United Kingdom.
When, a few years ago, I finally found the nerve to post a piece of my fan fiction, I received a comment from a Californian gal questioning whether English was my first language. Me?? Born and bred in rural Gloucestershire!!
[Sorry, Andrew, I can't think of anything more amusing.]
My divided by a common language internet pet peeve is people who post at comms to ask "Do Brits can a fwargl a fwargl?" As if everyone really spoke American and knew what a fwargl was, but perversely chose to call it something else.
A better example would be the question "What do Brits call a 'comforter'" - to which the obvious answer is "Someone who gives comfort", and not, and the questioner needs to know: (a)a child's dummy or (b)a quilt (or possibly duvet - I've never been able to work out exactly what function an American bed comforter performs).
This morning's example of the genre was "What do you guys call a flashlight?"
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Date: 2011-01-15 09:10 am (UTC)Her profile lists her as living in the United Kingdom.
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Date: 2011-01-15 11:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-15 11:21 am (UTC)[Sorry, Andrew, I can't think of anything more amusing.]
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Date: 2011-01-15 03:52 pm (UTC)This morning's example of the genre was "What do you guys call a flashlight?"
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