tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post5649632298865336650..comments2024-03-26T18:01:57.609+00:00Comments on Inky Fool: Novels of MisspellingM.H. Forsythhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01464964455944509750noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-79043111424974956842010-07-02T13:08:58.971+01:002010-07-02T13:08:58.971+01:00I wouldn't have put the comma before innit. Ha...I wouldn't have put the comma before innit. Having a pause there denotes a question, whereas no pause is for being insistant. Thus:<br /><br />"Shudn’t b callin me a Paki, innit?"<br /><br />or<br /><br />"Shudn’t b callin me a Paki innit."<br /><br />Also, pronouncing the d in shouldn't (or shuldn't) is too posh. Shun't might be better.Felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04699027727732148359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-77543152676865364542010-02-07T22:40:42.184+00:002010-02-07T22:40:42.184+00:00It's called "eye dialect", and it...It's called "eye dialect", and it's often used to indicate not that the speaker is pronouncing the word differently, but rather to indicate the speaker's social status.goofyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14760721504519661112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2629301231907528990.post-47884475231799108852009-11-19T09:59:12.667+00:002009-11-19T09:59:12.667+00:00Hiaasen today is a dreary camping site, a few hour...Hiaasen today is a dreary camping site, a few hours from Oslo. There is a writerly vein in this gene pool besides the Florida offshoot- Dag Hiaasen has written works such as "The cost of speaking ones mind in clandestine Norway", and is chairman of the board of an organisation called "Popular action against psychiatrists who go to far". It is of course neither popular nor really about action in the normal sense. I have always beleived that of all the forms of insanity, paranoia correlates most closely with writerly perfection. Could one go further and say that in order to improve his writing the Londonistan fellow should experience the horror of being cloistered in the woods somewhere rather than just "hanging out" in a vibrant, multi-cultural area where there are just too many distractions?Everet Lapel (P.hD)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14191121752821385700noreply@blogger.com