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[iceinyourmusic]

So I was in Sweden for a bit and met all the marvelous girls there you know who you are dah-lings. still hiating, but for this:

[Poll #547515]

Please to speak of any whys and wherefores you wish in the comment section (also is it really obvious what I'm really trying to find out here).

Comments

[leksa.livejournal.com]

ooh. Your preferred answer to #1 and #2 wasn't offered, because I'm not sure how that's possible, except perhaps in the tightestest POV/focalization situation where every single word is filtered through the character alone (and then, to what degree is the narration independent from the nationality of the focalizer/POV-character?) - and surely that's not the only option for writing well? Or is it? Possible? Or the only option? Teeelll me, I'm curious. (Unless, of course, you're trying to tell me that using nationality as shorthand for language/dialect/language variant is kind of silly, which, of course, it is, in a way.)

We are nothing if not adaptable. We can understand all of it.

heee.

[adventurat.livejournal.com]

What I meant was, if the writing is good, the use of language is organic and natural, with none of that jarring "WTF does that mean?" stuff in it that makes the reader wonder about the nationality of the narrator.

Of course, that may just be me. I never notice narrator nationality, particularly, unless the narrator is a different nationality (or species!) from the characters whose stories it's telling. And even then, if there were a reason for it, I might find it excusable.

Not, I hasten to add, that I read very much Potterfic.