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Q&A Should I stick with American terminology in my English set young adult book?

You could have scenes with a family next door or in the next apartment/flat that just moved in from the USA or Canada. Possibly the protagonist could often have to stop and mentally translate thei...

posted 5y ago by M. A. Golding‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T12:48:04Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/47576
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar M. A. Golding‭ · 2019-12-08T12:48:04Z (almost 5 years ago)
You could have scenes with a family next door or in the next apartment/flat that just moved in from the USA or Canada. Possibly the protagonist could often have to stop and mentally translate their American phrases into British phrases. And so the readers would learn what those British phrases mean at that time, before the British characters use them.

Or maybe the protagonist's family watches American made television shows as well as British shows, and they sometimes have to translate American phrases from the show into to English equivalents, thus showing the readers what those English phrases mean.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-08-26T18:13:20Z (about 5 years ago)
Original score: 0