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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! :)

Honesty - I wouldn't have known you were overseas except for the timezone differences and when you first mentioned your 'Mum' instead of "Mom', so you're doing really well with the American English thing. :) That's what made me curious if it was something you were putting effort into or maybe there aren't as many dialect differences as I assumed (when things are in print, anyway.) (Though, one look at a chart comparing UK and American clothing terms and already I'm confused. LOL)

The other thing that had me thinking was I'd been checking into NYC slang to see if there was anything different than what I speak here. LOL I live in the Boston-New York Corridor, so the internet seems to tell me there really isn't much that matters. (I was thinking Mike may have a bit more of a NY accent at times, like his Dad - that's what made me go looking. But I'm not sure if I'd know how to communicate that. I guess the pronunciation is just different? I was hoping to find some local words that would make it more obvious. *shrugs*) But, yeah, NYC is not much more than a train ride away from where I am, so we share a lot of dialect words compared to other parts of the US. Like we say soda instead of pop, sneakers instead of tennis shoes... that kind of thing. Anyway... Kinda struck out. lol. *shrugs*

Let's have the bar be Josie's! I like it! (Besides, much better than any college bar... I remember those as too loud and too kiddish, anyway.) (And, yeah, most of us end up drinking under the age of 21 - one of the reasons I think the law is silly and wonder if it encourages binge drinking in the young. Like the thrill of getting away with something... But, if it were normal, that thrill is gone, you know? Maybe there'd be a healthier social norm in it's place? Maybe not, though.)

Pangalactic gargleblaster sounds epic. That's from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy right? I wonder if the fictional drink is made with fictional liquor? lol. :)

A lot of those charts with different words are exaggerated. I saw one once that claimed we use 'hotel' for restaurant in England. We definitely don't. On the other hand, there are quite a few differences, but we get so much American TV we know all the words and it's pretty easy to switch between the two. On one forum (not fandom) Someone once told me that even before they knew where I was from, all my posts came out in Bridget Jones' accent in their head. I guess I switch things around subconsciously..! (My accent it nothing like Bridget Jones, btw. I'm from the north. (We're a bit Game of Thrones about that north/south divide over here!)

Mike's accent... Accents are really hard to communicate in writing. I;ve read things where people have tried to spell words out phonetically to how certain people pronounce them, and it;s just awful. Nothing wrong with droppin' the occasional letter now 'n'then, but trying to do anything else is pretty much impossible and you're stuck just saying that they have this accent or that. Which to be honest, works fine. The reader just incorporates that info into their overall picture of the character.

Mike might be good at accents in general. Like how Stick wanted Elektra to copy the family he placed her with, learn to act like a different kind of people, he might have wanted Mike to be able to do the same to a certain extent. Or maybe it's just a talent he has. This came to me yesterday. I've been imagining Mike with this voice that is just totally, totally wrong for him, and I knew it had come from somewhere but I didn't know where. It randomly popped into my head yesterday that it was from the audiobook of Brandon Sanderson's Alloy of Law books. I don't know if you're familiar with them, but there's the character called Wayne, and personality-wise he's not that dissimilar from Mike, I don't think. He has this ridiculous gift for accents, that he uses to trick people into thinking he is someone else, he mixes them together, carefully slips from one to another to make someone more comfortable, or to arouse their suspicion if he needs to. It's very cool. (I find accents fascinating generally anyway) So anyway, I kind of merged the two characters in my head and assigned Mike a similar ability. Might not be a good idea though, don't want Mike to be able to do too much, or he becomes a Gary-Stu!

Yes, the bar should definitely be Josies :-) Maybe Mike knows the place, that's why he takes Foggy there. Then it could be Foggy that introduces Matt to it later.

Oh, there is plenty of binge drinking here, going out and getting wasted is the main way students enjoy themselves! Though I did read an article not so long ago saying drinking and drug taking is on the decline in young people. But when I was at uni (there's a word difference!) me and a friend got through a whole bottle of vodka one night just sat watching TV till 6am. And that was a fairly average night in. Nights out... you probably don't want to know! :-). It's a places' culture more than its laws that govern that kind of behavior, and there is a huge drinking culture here, to the extent that if you don't drink, or even if you're in a pub or something and not drinking at that particular moment, people are liable to quiz you about it. Pretty weird, when you think about it! I think it's different in parts of mainland Europe though.

The fictional Panhgalactic gargleblaster has some kind of drug in it that suppresses telekinesis, if I remember right. It's been a while since I read the Hitchhiker's guide. But the real one they serve at Spider's nightclub has a very strange combination of stuff in it. Including a jelly worm, which makes me think of Foggy and Karen drinking the eel!

I'm rambling on again, sorry!! :)

Good to know the charts are exaggerated. I'd hate to reference one and sound silly. lol. Bridget Jones... OMG... I was part of this community theater group years and years ago... We were doing 'Pride & Prejudice' and I was playing Charlotte. A bunch of the group were putting on British accents (I thought they were pretty terrible, but some of them were so proud.. !!) Anyway, they were pressuring me to do it, too, so it all matches. So, I was watching those Bridget Jones movies to try and do it. No such luck. (You have to get me to knock back a few before I get anywhere close - and I probably only sound that way to me because I'm under the influence. Some friends and I would run our lines at a bar, I wonder what the people around us thought. lol) We had fun.

The North - is that kind of like the 9th Doctor's speech? (Game of Thrones... If only George RR Martin would finish that next book!)

We definitely don't want Mike to be a Gary-Stu, but... I think it might actually keep in line with what we're doing - so long as he's not too, too good. That thing with Wayne reminds me of Mr. Smith in Jeremiah - he does something similar. He thinks he's this messenger from God (he could actually be) and he doesn't remember his life or where he's from, but he can be from wherever anyone around him is from, speak with their accent, remember their local hangouts back home... He uses it got get in with people. It's so cool! He's played by Sean Astin. & I need to read this Brandon Sanderson sometime - I keep hearing how good his books are!

The eel... I should put a pack of gummy worms in the liquor cabinet. (My SO would probably think I'm ridiculous.)

I meant to ask - what type of voice was it you heard Mike in? Just curious since I haven't those books. (I've heard other authors I like mention him when I was at GenCon last year - made a mental note to check him out and forgot when I came home. LOL.)

Kind of difficult to describe really. It's not even just the accent, which is totally wrong because it's not even really an American accent, definitely not New York, more like American meets a hint of Australia or cockney London... I dunno. The main thing with is is the words he uses and the way he talks, "that's right unfair, that is," and c'mon mate," and just stuff like that. I mean, the accent itself is just the guy reading it's interpretation of it, but the dialect is all wrong too! But I think personality-wise he's very similar to Mike, and that's what's gotten them mixed up my my head

Yeah, Christopher Eccleston is from Manchester, that's about two hours drive from here. I'm from Yorkshire though, so it's a little different. Specifically, Hull. Personally, I like the accent here, but it's a minority opinion. EVen most people from here don't like out accent. I don't think there are any I *don't* like though :-)

I've never heard of Jeremiah, is it a TV show? Sounds pretty interesting. I'd definitely reccomend Brandon Sanderson if you're into fantasy stuff, he creates these incredibly complicated worlds with different magical rules and abilities that people have, but writes in this really accessible, non-pretentious way. It's very cool. I kind of stumbled actress his stuff a few years and, and I think I've just about read everything he's written now.

Cool. I think accents are interesting. I have no gift for mimicry - that's more my SO's territory. He'll mimic characters on TV, people he knows, and does a spot-on impression of his dad, who's from India... Myself, I'm just lucky people understand me. (As a kid I needed speech lessons. I still have a tendency to talk out my nose if I don't actively concentrate on not doing it. But, it's nothing people notice anymore.)

Yeah, Jeremiah is a TV show. It only has two seasons and Mr. Smith is a main character in the 2nd season. (Not sure if he was in season 1 - he might have been towards the end, I forget.) He's my fav and real reason for watching. LOL.

Maybe when school gets out in a couple weeks I'll track down some of his books. I have about a two week break before my summer class starts up. Sounds like something to tide me over while I'm waiting for the next Dresden Files or Patrick Rothfuss's Kingkiller Chronicles.

Yeah, I'm no good at doing accents or impressions either. I can do a passable Liverpudlian, probably a result of spending my childhood watching Red Dwarf to the extent I can still pretty much quote entire episodes.

Another Dresden fan? I love those. It's been a really long time since the last one came out though, and I've heard nothing about another one. I've not heard of the Kingkiller Chronicles though. Are they worth checking out?

Awes! I love Dresden files. I even listen to the audio books. James Marsters reads them and it's like listening to a one-man show the way he does the voices. He's definitely Harry now for me. (And Bob, and Butters, for that matter.)

They're really good! And, I went to a bunch of the writer symposiums at Gen Con last year... Patrick Rothfuss was there. After hearing him speak at a few of the sessions, I like him even more. He seems like a good guy. (Jim Butcher was there the year before - he didn't seem to want to be there, though. I wonder if it was the crowds. I know I had to recharge in the designated quiet room a few times when the crowds were at their peak.) "The Name of the Wind," his first book, is worth checking out. I was so hooked I read it in two nights... Couldn't put it down. But, there are only two books out in the series, plus a side story, so they go quick.

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Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil

Re: Where Matt has a real identical twin named Mike who is sighted and is Daredevil