Notice about Family Ties

[hellzabeth]

It's been brought to my attention that a lot of people think Canada is dead.

"Well no shit" say my readers. "You blew him up."

That's not what I mean. I mean people think he's chosen to go on into the afterlife because of this line:

“Kids, eh?”

“Tell me about it, aru.”

I want to straighten out, before the next chapter (as I was going to post it tonight but didn't get the time) that this is not Canada talking. It's mama!Britannica. Canadians aren't the only people who sometimes end their sentences in "eh?" orz;;;;;;

I should have noticed this thing sooner. This is what I get for not having a beta.

So I've edited the line to have "huh?" on the end. Hope this unconfuses some people, you may now return to your regularly scheduled theorising on who's in Prussia's room (as though you haven't guessed already). I'll also be including this explaination in the next chapter, for those who've missed it. I fail at writing orz

Comments

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

Half my comments on the latest chapter contained a variation of "but why did Canada choose to stay dead?!" to which I initially went "wtf where have they got this idea" until Nena explained it to me as she thought so too and now I am reminded why I'm a massive derp. orz;;;

[aislingthegreat.livejournal.com]

Meh. It's possibly because a lot of the fanfics with Canada out there have him adding "eh" to every single sentence. People are so used to it that when they see eh they think Canada, hence the current confusion.:( I don't think it's so much that you're a derp as you may not associate that sound with Canada-the-character as much as others might.:D

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

I suppose so. A lot of people I know add "eh" to make their sentence a rhetorical question, like "rough day, eh?" or "clouds looks gloomy eh?". I guess it's just not an exclusively Canadian thing for me unless you're adding it onto sentences that aren't meant to be rhetorical.

/rambles and should stop analysing own idolects.

[aislingthegreat.livejournal.com]

But linguistics rambling is fun!:D

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

Glad you think so, I tend to slip into it a lot. ^^;;;