That was co-incidental, this came through just as I pressed post comment on the one above.
Yeah, I definitely get your point about them just opening up a law firm kind of out of the blue. I get the impression it was what they wanted to do and they just decided to go for it and hope for the best. But you're right, they probably did change disciplines as well as suddenly become business owners and no longer having a big form to back them up or more experienced people to give advice, secretaries and paralegals around to do other stuff. They're very much thrown in at the deep end, and you're probably right that they shouldn't have had the experience to handle that. I really wish the show had set the scene where they meet much earlier, then it would be possible to account for discrepancies like that by saying they were interning much longer, they took a year out to work with Rosalind Sharpe, or whatever else. Never mind, I guess it's fiction and it;s not perfect!
Yeah, I don't think you'd get away with drinking at a pub at 16 now, times have changes and landlords will lose their licenses if they get caught. It's a good thing, I suppose. (though there is one club that I know for a fact that all the kids still go to, it's cheap, it's kind of scummy and they actually do a drink called a pangalactic gargleblaster. I've not been for years, but I do love it there) One way of Matt/Mike and Foggy to get away with it might be to move further away from the college. Bartenders near the campus would probably be more vigilant for swarms of underage drinkers than if they go further afield. Or maybe they go to Josies, they might have been regulars there for longer than we realize..!
I'm not sure I'd say Americans are more uptight about drinking (though maybe they are, I don't know!) I just get the impression that it happens later there than here for most people. 21 just seems very old to be having your first drink, and I can't imagine why the age limit is so high. I think it's a cultural thing. But here most people are drinking much earlier than the law says then can, and I'd assume it's the same there? Though our laws are much less clear cut than nothing before 18. You can drink in a pub at 16 with an adult, if you are having a meal, and believe it or not it's actually legal to give a child over the age of 4 a drink in their own home! Wow I'm getting off topic though.
I mostly try to write fic in American English as best I can. I have my computer set up that way, so it actually autocorrects me if I accidentally write colour or realise, etc. It's different words that cause the most trouble. I have a good ear for dialects, and I can usually tell when something I've written doesn't feel right in a certain accent, but I can't always come up with a good alternative. Once I spent most of an evening trying to come up with another word for "cupboard"! But for the most part it's not an issue. Or, I don't think it is. My stuff could be peppered with errors that I haven't spotted, for all I know! :)
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Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil
Date: 2016-04-21 11:11 pm (UTC)Yeah, I definitely get your point about them just opening up a law firm kind of out of the blue. I get the impression it was what they wanted to do and they just decided to go for it and hope for the best. But you're right, they probably did change disciplines as well as suddenly become business owners and no longer having a big form to back them up or more experienced people to give advice, secretaries and paralegals around to do other stuff. They're very much thrown in at the deep end, and you're probably right that they shouldn't have had the experience to handle that. I really wish the show had set the scene where they meet much earlier, then it would be possible to account for discrepancies like that by saying they were interning much longer, they took a year out to work with Rosalind Sharpe, or whatever else. Never mind, I guess it's fiction and it;s not perfect!
Yeah, I don't think you'd get away with drinking at a pub at 16 now, times have changes and landlords will lose their licenses if they get caught. It's a good thing, I suppose. (though there is one club that I know for a fact that all the kids still go to, it's cheap, it's kind of scummy and they actually do a drink called a pangalactic gargleblaster. I've not been for years, but I do love it there) One way of Matt/Mike and Foggy to get away with it might be to move further away from the college. Bartenders near the campus would probably be more vigilant for swarms of underage drinkers than if they go further afield. Or maybe they go to Josies, they might have been regulars there for longer than we realize..!
I'm not sure I'd say Americans are more uptight about drinking (though maybe they are, I don't know!) I just get the impression that it happens later there than here for most people. 21 just seems very old to be having your first drink, and I can't imagine why the age limit is so high. I think it's a cultural thing. But here most people are drinking much earlier than the law says then can, and I'd assume it's the same there? Though our laws are much less clear cut than nothing before 18. You can drink in a pub at 16 with an adult, if you are having a meal, and believe it or not it's actually legal to give a child over the age of 4 a drink in their own home! Wow I'm getting off topic though.
I mostly try to write fic in American English as best I can. I have my computer set up that way, so it actually autocorrects me if I accidentally write colour or realise, etc. It's different words that cause the most trouble. I have a good ear for dialects, and I can usually tell when something I've written doesn't feel right in a certain accent, but I can't always come up with a good alternative. Once I spent most of an evening trying to come up with another word for "cupboard"! But for the most part it's not an issue. Or, I don't think it is. My stuff could be peppered with errors that I haven't spotted, for all I know! :)