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HOW'S MY DRIVING?

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I do worry about my britspeak with Spike. Though I would point out that I feel that particular post is not indicative of how he always is since normally I do try and mix it up with the britisms I use. That was him waking up with a hangover. Past that, well, typing accents is tricky. I'll add an extra "u" to words that take it if I remember, but I often don't remember since, well, I'm American and it's hard to get out of spelling things the way I've learned. I refuse to write things out phonetically. British people wouldn't write that way, and so neither will I. Can you give other examples of where it could be better?

I know that I've got a tendency to tag castmates frequently, but I do tag outside of them as well. I can try to do it more often, but just off the top of my head I've recently threaded with Wolverine, Brennan, Mal, and a bunch of people in the Slenderman plot. This game is very large and very fast at times, so if I don't know a character, I won't necessarily tag or even read their post because, well, time. I do, however, always tag back people who tag me, and once I've got CR established with a character, I'll tag them more often.

I guess Anya doesn't thread much outside her cast, but then again, she doesn't thread quite enough within her cast either.

As an American who plays a lot of British characters (just ... not in this game BUT I SWEAR, I REALLY DO), honestly a helpful thing to do is to immerse yourself in British culture.

Watch some British sitcoms, British drama, British talk shows, read some British books, listen to some British podcasts -- even just listening to British radio can help (Radio 1 or XFM are the ones I like, and they both offer livestreams).

Find a British actor you like and look around on YouTube for interviews with him on UK talk shows -- or even American talk shows, as then you can listen to the differences in syntax, etc. Even trolling YouTube for UK vlogs can be fruitful!

I have been watching a British... drama, I think? I'm not sure what category it falls in. But it's very good, though I guess it's been a few weeks. I should keep watching. But yes, I will definitely accent review.

I used that post because it's a good representation of you doing it in a contrived way that takes minimal effort to demonstrate my point and it was the most recent example. If you really want me to, I will go back in Spike's tag and get further examples, but I didn't expect you to leap on the defensive when I was trying to show you what you were doing. You're disregarding my crit entirely and making excuses for it and it doesn't really make you look open to crit - especially when combined with how you're acting in the other threads here.

I'm going to agree with

icarustattoo about immersing yourself in British culture. But, a rewatch is best because of how many different regional dialects of the accent there are and they all have unique colloquialisms and quirks to them so you want to study Spike's in particular. If I were you, I'd rewatch his canon, make notes of britspeak phrases he uses, and keep them in a notepad. Then immerse yourself in the British culture and make a separate list of similar ones. For instance, you don't want to use Rose Tyler from Doctor Who as your springboard for it, because her accent is completely different from Spike's. It's heavier and more London specific.

I do, however, always tag back people who tag me, and once I've got CR established with a character, I'll tag them more often.

This is a really bad method in a game as big as Paradisa. It's also really bad to use the size of the game as an excuse. The size means there are plenty of people who you don't know OOC and who aren't in your cast to tag, regardless of time constraints. You basically just said that you don't have time to play in a game this big but are playing here to hide within your cast. You shouldn't wait for people to come to you to build CR with them, and you shouldn't only tag characters you know. You should tag based on post content.

Okay, I am open to crit, but I also do not accept it off the bat. I've been told by British people that my accent when I write Spike is very good, so when an anonymous person says I need to work on it, I have to weigh it against what other people have said in the past. However, since a lot of people have given me the same crit, I am now going to consider it more and accent review.

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