Definitions of Britpicking...
Thursday, 20 August 2009 07:35 amOhmigawd, I have just seen the following sentence in someone's lj...
I did my own Britpicking (with the help of Thingie who is also not British)
To be fair, they didn't do a bad job (way better than alot I've seen), but... what is this definition of Britpicking that you can do it yourself? Isn't that actually just trying your best and not bothering to get anyone else to check?
Or is it me, and I've always assumed that when someone says they're going to get a story Britchecked/picked that they mean by a Brit? Or at least someone who's, say, lived there, or seems to know what they're doing because they know how to change their spellcheck to UK English?
Also - did I wake up grumpy? *eyes coffee* *g*
I did my own Britpicking (with the help of Thingie who is also not British)
To be fair, they didn't do a bad job (way better than alot I've seen), but... what is this definition of Britpicking that you can do it yourself? Isn't that actually just trying your best and not bothering to get anyone else to check?
Or is it me, and I've always assumed that when someone says they're going to get a story Britchecked/picked that they mean by a Brit? Or at least someone who's, say, lived there, or seems to know what they're doing because they know how to change their spellcheck to UK English?
Also - did I wake up grumpy? *eyes coffee* *g*
