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Accio Goblet! mods (gobletmods) wrote in goblet_ooc,
@ 2012-10-07 14:22:00

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! friend button, ! mod post

Yet another mod post.
Firstly, run the button, as Katie adds to the game her second character, Ruby Robins (laal)!

Secondly, the club rosters have been updated at the Classes & Clubs page. Flying Club is the only new club with an established meeting time so far - I went for Saturdays since that seemed to be the preferred date when Angelina posted about it, but it can be changed to any other time if people decide a reschedule is better. As before, we'll be more than happy to reschedule. We're also open to suggestions to when the other clubs should have their meetings - weekdays at 5pm, weekends, or any other idea you might have. And as before, spots are still open for student heads on several clubs (Emily, would you want Angelina to head the Flying Club since she made all the preparations?). And since I'm bound to have missed something while organizing the rosters, if I've missed any name just let me know!

And finally, I'd like to announce that the info pages for Beauxbatons and Durmstrang are unlocked and ready for your perusal. They are yet to be linked to this journal's main page as we're hoping for some feedback from you on how clear and informative they are, as well as our take on the schools.
We're adding these pages to the game because in about a week (October 15th, to be more precise), we'll be opening holds on the foreign students, with a dozen characters (six boys and six girls) for each school. Once these holds are available, the character limit will extend to five per person - three from Hogwarts, one from Beauxbatons, and one from Durmstrang. We already have 2 ½ early holds for Beauxbatons, though, so if you want to request someone before the 15th feel free to do so! The only thing you have to keep in mind is that all foreign students need to be 17 by the time they arrive at Hogwarts, since they are all volunteers for the tournament, and also that Durmstrang will have no muggle-born students.

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notahamster
2012-10-08 12:12 am UTC (link)

Well, I can understand doing the spelling on logs/threads, but not on actual posts - it would make the character look really dumb if they misspelled things like that in written posts too, wouldn't it? I think Hamish is a good example of how I like to do things when it comes to accents - he uses a lot of Lowland Scots (dinna ken, cannae, and so on) and Gaelic when writing, but everything he writes in actual English is spelled correctly. However, when writing threads, I make his accent show a little, though in a more subtle way than Rowling would probably do - which so far has consisted only on writing things like "doin'" and "goin'" and using "mebbe" instead of "maybe".

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	astellaidea 2012-10-08 12:18 am UTC (link)
	I think typed out accents in logs are fine! Or some slang like Hamish uses. It's things like HB Seamus writing all of his entries in dialect that makes me want to bang my head on the wall. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notahamster 2012-10-08 12:21 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, that doesn't make sense - Seamus is Irish but he writes in English rather than in an "accented" dialect. Plus Rowling herself doesn't do much with his accent when he speaks, anyway. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	argentumvir 2012-10-08 07:50 pm UTC (link)
	Ditto Larissa - none of her English is accented when written, but Afrikaner vocal tics (ja instead of yes/yeah, eish instead of oy, oh my gosh etc) definitely have an accent, so to speak :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

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