News.

This is the sort of news I like to read: Brazil's women voters campaign to be heard. (Be sure to check out the slideshow!)

Emma Thompson... I really don't think you thought through what you were saying. Saying slang send you "insane" is still slang (and, hey, more offensive than 'innit', so well done there...). Though I think the article points out quite well that slang is all about (group) identity and adapting from one setting to another can carry you forward in places, so there you go.

Related to that, I LOVE THE VIDEO ON THIS PAGE. Not that I have a clue about Derry slang, but the 'translation into English' at the end CRACKS ME UP. Oh, school; sometimes I miss it.

ETA: Oh, schoolchildren...

Ficcety Fic

Was a bit worried I wouldn't make it this week, but I did another bit of fic for sb_fag_ends! Alternate beginning (/middle?) to As You Were, cunningly (ha) entitled As We Are, with nothing the AO3 would mention, though there is a leetle bit of swearing.

It's strangely rewarding doing 500-word snippets, because you can turn something out and shape it up a bit in a relatively short length of time. It isn't quite the same feeling as doing something more extended though, so I must get back to the graft...