"said" in that case is being used as "aforementioned"?
I haven't the slightest idea as to who wrote what lines in Buffy. I generally assumed Americans were responsible, mostly because supposedly British characters said "guys" instead of "blokes", which always sounds odd to me. (I wasn't sure if that meant -- were the people writing the script unaware of the difference in vocabulary? Or -- if someone with the appropriate knowledge were writing the script, perhaps they were pandering to American sensibilities?)
BASICALLY I KNOW NOTHING. Except that it was used to make American audiences feel "ah, I am listening to a stuffy British man". Not that "aforementioned" would be any better, but -- in terms of speech patterns, it sounds pretentious, either way.
As an aside, I am here and sniffing around your livejournal because your writing made me purr on the inside. (And possibly on the outside, but try not to judge. We all have our own bizarre mannerisms, yeah?) Like -- I'd be reading a paragraph of one of your stories, and then I'd go back and re-read it, simply because I liked how everything was structured. Pretty, pretty writing. Excuse me while I roll around and make adoring noises.
(Meanwhile, in my kitchen, my baby brother is inventing words, like 'inhuming', as in the opposite of 'exhuming', mixed up somewhere with 'interring'; he likes to make words. He's decided that a word like 'inhuming' would be a useful addition to the vocabulary of someone in an assassin's guild. I have a very strange family.)
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Date: 2011-03-19 02:15 am (UTC)I haven't the slightest idea as to who wrote what lines in Buffy. I generally assumed Americans were responsible, mostly because supposedly British characters said "guys" instead of "blokes", which always sounds odd to me. (I wasn't sure if that meant -- were the people writing the script unaware of the difference in vocabulary? Or -- if someone with the appropriate knowledge were writing the script, perhaps they were pandering to American sensibilities?)
BASICALLY I KNOW NOTHING. Except that it was used to make American audiences feel "ah, I am listening to a stuffy British man". Not that "aforementioned" would be any better, but -- in terms of speech patterns, it sounds pretentious, either way.
As an aside, I am here and sniffing around your livejournal because your writing made me purr on the inside. (And possibly on the outside, but try not to judge. We all have our own bizarre mannerisms, yeah?) Like -- I'd be reading a paragraph of one of your stories, and then I'd go back and re-read it, simply because I liked how everything was structured. Pretty, pretty writing. Excuse me while I roll around and make adoring noises.
(Meanwhile, in my kitchen, my baby brother is inventing words, like 'inhuming', as in the opposite of 'exhuming', mixed up somewhere with 'interring'; he likes to make words. He's decided that a word like 'inhuming' would be a useful addition to the vocabulary of someone in an assassin's guild. I have a very strange family.)