re - ur feelings on the hp slang: i think living in the uk could possibly kill you.
Yes and no, based on my experience of it
somehow it's not as cringey when like...the Captain on Ghosts says "bagsy her room," or Terry Pratchett's characters drop all manner of alien-to-me slang in their conversation. or it'll be something I grew up reading in other Brit Lit, so it doesn't sound strange to me anymore
I considered that angle on it when I was writing the post, but somehow HP slang is just worse to me. I can't put my finger on it. maybe it's that UK slang actually evolved the way slang does IRL, from an originating descriptor or something, and weren't just invented because Haha Funney Wizard Slang(TM)? so it sounds like it has logic, or something?
I can't account for it. but while some British slang terms do sound weird to me, they never make my spine crawl the way HP slang always has
(I mean 99% of current Trendy American slang is just stolen from Black people, who've been using it for decades. so hearing my fellow white people do that already kills me a bit.)
(unless it's something that used to be non-racialized slang, stuck around only in AAE, and has now expanded back to white people, because that's weirdly a thing that's happening now? examples include "extra" in the modern sense, "on god," and "sends me.")
