china_shop: Close-up of Zhao Yunlan grinning (DS hmmm...)
The Gauche in the Machine ([personal profile] china_shop) wrote in [personal profile] luzula 2009-09-30 09:10 pm (UTC)

Can anyone think of a fic with her in it?

I included a letter from her to Fraser in my F/K/V fic, Mosaic, Piece by Piece. Other than that, no, I haven't see her mentioned, I don't think.

In real life, people don't use names like this when there's no uncertainty about whom they're addressing, do they?

No, but they do it a lot on TV and in movies, to give the viewers a chance to learn and remember the names, I think. (Heh -- [livejournal.com profile] miss_zedem thinks it's an American thing; I think it's a TV thing. Perhaps a combination?) It seems to be very much part of the speech patterns of DS, which I think is why it ends up in fic so much, but yeah, I always try to cut down if I can. You don't need it in fic the same way you do in canon.

Though, otoh, in canon, you can often tell who someone's talking to by eyeline/body language, whereas in fic you have to somehow make that explicit.

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