for people writing Tater

des-zimbits:

wheeloffortune-design:

We know he speaks in butchered English, simple sentences because English is his second language. 

But if you write from his point of view, or if you write him speaking Russian to other Russian people? Write him in fluent, rich English! I’ve seen too many fics where the narration is still simple and butchered, but no one thinks like that in their head! 

YESSS.

(My favourite thing is writing when people like Kent or Bitty are trying to speak to him in Russian, so he and other Russian speakers are rich and fluent, but the Anglophones come across as… abrupt, poorly-phrased caricatures. And you have to remember that a language gap obscures a lot of a person’s true personality.)