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eliabrithOK read a fic the other day set in Ireland and while they did seem to have done some research they clearly then decided they had done enough and winged it.
So heres a few points in fics that annoy me.
1) We do no all eat fields of potatoes at one sitting nor do we eat Wheaten Bread, Potato bread, Soda Farls and other traditional foods all the time. Nor it it a good idea for clueless American tourists to leap wholeheartedly into eating all these foods they are rather heavy and liable to cause massive digestive problems. *grins evily*
2) While we have a small population, counting both Ireland and Northern Ireland, it does not mean that there are huge areas of the country where there is no population and you can wander for days without ever seeing any sign of civilistation. There are houses and roads everywhere! Remember small population is on a rather small and essenitally rural island
3) Avoid any mention of the Troubles if possible you do not understand them and never will, most people live here all their lifes and still have no bloody notion.
Oh and as for the War images, no the British army is not dug in on one side of a Belfast Street with the IRA dug in on the other side.
4) People do not wander around speaking Gaelic in fact most of the population couldn't carry out a full converstion in it. It is also the fastest way to get lynched in some areas. Not that I'd try and scare you or anything..... ok so it was an exaggeration, the lynching, not the other bits.
5) We do not wander round in green, carrying blackthorns and saying "Top o tha Marnin tay you!"
6) In reference to the fic I read you cannot spend a full day and a half walking up mountains in Ireland. The tallest mountain is a thousand feet under the height of Ben Nevis which you can climb and be back down again in 6 hours!
7) We are not a nation od alcoholics. Nor are the only drinks available Guinness and Irish Whiskey.
8) Regional accents chage every few miles and really I am not joking about this one town has a different accent and colloquialisms to the next town over. So please never ever attempt to phonetically right out dialogue.
9) We do not all have "Irish" first names and if your characters must have them please oh please use the right spellings not the batardised/anglicised american versions.
10) Surnames are not all prefixed with O's and Mc/Mac's we have thousands of variations of names use something else like a Fitz or something.
11) Leprechaun's do not frolick freely in the fields.
I had a few more that where funnier but apparently sending me to do the shopping makes my brain dribble out my ears and I forgot. umm oops?
ETA: 12) The Blarney Stone is not something you can wander up and kiss randomly. It involves climbing to the top of Blarney Castles Battlements sitting down and dangling backwards off them out a window about 60-70 feet in the air. still sound like easy fun?
So heres a few points in fics that annoy me.
1) We do no all eat fields of potatoes at one sitting nor do we eat Wheaten Bread, Potato bread, Soda Farls and other traditional foods all the time. Nor it it a good idea for clueless American tourists to leap wholeheartedly into eating all these foods they are rather heavy and liable to cause massive digestive problems. *grins evily*
2) While we have a small population, counting both Ireland and Northern Ireland, it does not mean that there are huge areas of the country where there is no population and you can wander for days without ever seeing any sign of civilistation. There are houses and roads everywhere! Remember small population is on a rather small and essenitally rural island
3) Avoid any mention of the Troubles if possible you do not understand them and never will, most people live here all their lifes and still have no bloody notion.
Oh and as for the War images, no the British army is not dug in on one side of a Belfast Street with the IRA dug in on the other side.
4) People do not wander around speaking Gaelic in fact most of the population couldn't carry out a full converstion in it. It is also the fastest way to get lynched in some areas. Not that I'd try and scare you or anything..... ok so it was an exaggeration, the lynching, not the other bits.
5) We do not wander round in green, carrying blackthorns and saying "Top o tha Marnin tay you!"
6) In reference to the fic I read you cannot spend a full day and a half walking up mountains in Ireland. The tallest mountain is a thousand feet under the height of Ben Nevis which you can climb and be back down again in 6 hours!
7) We are not a nation od alcoholics. Nor are the only drinks available Guinness and Irish Whiskey.
8) Regional accents chage every few miles and really I am not joking about this one town has a different accent and colloquialisms to the next town over. So please never ever attempt to phonetically right out dialogue.
9) We do not all have "Irish" first names and if your characters must have them please oh please use the right spellings not the batardised/anglicised american versions.
10) Surnames are not all prefixed with O's and Mc/Mac's we have thousands of variations of names use something else like a Fitz or something.
11) Leprechaun's do not frolick freely in the fields.
I had a few more that where funnier but apparently sending me to do the shopping makes my brain dribble out my ears and I forgot. umm oops?
ETA: 12) The Blarney Stone is not something you can wander up and kiss randomly. It involves climbing to the top of Blarney Castles Battlements sitting down and dangling backwards off them out a window about 60-70 feet in the air. still sound like easy fun?
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Date: 2004-07-18 02:11 pm (UTC)Your rant was soooo much better than mine.
I loved it :) we should keep this going with other things that annoy us in similar ways :)
Oh, did you get your cornflake problem fixed?
*hugs*
Moonshy
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