Plus "Original" is also used to refer to canon in the poll, right?)
I did something a little strange in the survey, in that I use "writer" to mean fanfiction writing, and "Author" to refer to the author/creator of a canon. I used "story" as a synonym for "canon", where "canon" would've made for a very awkward sentence, and I used "fic" when I was talking about fanfic specifically. Which means: a writer could also write "origfic" (original fiction, stories) but could also write fic based on an Author's story.
This is possibly a nuance that you only get if you've got the nuances of English down pat, I'm thinking. Not sure. I did put definitions at the tops of some of the pages, though, where I thought they might be most useful, so it's not like that can't be done in the German version, too, if the terms might otherwise be confusing. Just something that clarifies that ___ refers to ___, and the term ___ refers only to ____.
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Date: 15 Feb 2011 06:12 am (UTC)I did something a little strange in the survey, in that I use "writer" to mean fanfiction writing, and "Author" to refer to the author/creator of a canon. I used "story" as a synonym for "canon", where "canon" would've made for a very awkward sentence, and I used "fic" when I was talking about fanfic specifically. Which means: a writer could also write "origfic" (original fiction, stories) but could also write fic based on an Author's story.
This is possibly a nuance that you only get if you've got the nuances of English down pat, I'm thinking. Not sure. I did put definitions at the tops of some of the pages, though, where I thought they might be most useful, so it's not like that can't be done in the German version, too, if the terms might otherwise be confusing. Just something that clarifies that ___ refers to ___, and the term ___ refers only to ____.