Maybe the "mum" issue is just spelling. They never read, so they assume it's spelled the same?

[cimorene]

As ealgylden noted on my last post on the subj., the combination of young British newbies (which seem to make up the majority of the fandom for some reason) and young new-to-fandom Don't Bother With Betas Culture has resulted in the larger body of work in Stranger Things fandom - the unfiltered pool, if you will - being thoroughly permeated with blithe, unaware Britishisms. It's incomprehensible to me how someone can get old enough to write fanfiction without consuming enough international media to notice that Americans don't have "mums" or go "to hospital", but it's far beyond that. Sweatshirts are sweaters. Sneakers are trainers. Friends are mates. People are drinking the wrong kinds of beer. At this point I'd rather read an unexplained British AU than another one of these regionalization tragedies.

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[ealgylden]

As much as I enjoy the characters, I'm kind of hitting the limit on the fic for just this reason. Every time I get worn into submission by the ear-jangling vocab- though for the love of goats, please do not put Will in a jumper, he has enough problems- I run smack into something like Steve thinking he might whip up a quick curry for El. A white boy in the Midwest in 1986. I'll give you 100-1 odds he's never tasted curry, author. He's certainly never cooked it.

[cimorene]

Lol. I didn't see that one - I must have back buttoned earlier (or also I don't read wips). But same. I mean, getting fed up is mostly that I back button a lot earlier though. I open like 25 and finish maybe 4-5 to bookmark one.