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inkstains2011-05-06 04:30 pm
pipisafoat) wrote in inkstains2011-05-06 04:30 pm
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TnT: incorrect grammar
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I know that it is a stylistic choice to have a character speak with incorrect grammar. I know that it is a stylistic choice to have a narrator with incorrect grammar. I have even written both of those in the past and will probably do so again in the future! However, I can't help it: I hate reading something with glaringly bad grammar. Even if I know it's done on purpose, I can't force myself to sit there and wade through it. Even if I know for a fact that the author is a person who has impeccable grammar. Even if you held me at gunpoint with a check for a million dollars waving in my face. (Okay, maybe not then.) And yet, I'll still write things with bad grammar to prove a point or more accurately represent the character(s). However, there are people who won't do it even then.
Incorrect grammar: strength in style or just showing your idiocy?
I know that it is a stylistic choice to have a character speak with incorrect grammar. I know that it is a stylistic choice to have a narrator with incorrect grammar. I have even written both of those in the past and will probably do so again in the future! However, I can't help it: I hate reading something with glaringly bad grammar. Even if I know it's done on purpose, I can't force myself to sit there and wade through it. Even if I know for a fact that the author is a person who has impeccable grammar. Even if you held me at gunpoint with a check for a million dollars waving in my face. (Okay, maybe not then.) And yet, I'll still write things with bad grammar to prove a point or more accurately represent the character(s). However, there are people who won't do it even then.
Incorrect grammar: strength in style or just showing your idiocy?
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If I could somehow manage to insert this into the heads of "progressives" in the US today, I would . . . I don't know. Say "ain't" and "liberry" and "wantsta" holy lots in my nasal, twangy Midwestern voice and give the eyebrow to people who talk about "dumb hicks" in "flyover country". (I would also apparently use lots of sarcastic quotes.)
Except I was in speech therapy when I was little, so I don't actually talk like that. I talk fancy. :( But I get the sentiment! Hicks united.
(Oh, hey. Are you from Wisconsin, too? I poked through your profile, because I wondered.)