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I am both terribly impressed and a little worried about Annie. It took less than 4 minutes for her to read your post, and then find and post that pic.
 
I hadn't imagined this thread would go in this, ah, direction, but for those with intentional interests in putting things up there: The Fitbutt
 
Drug and of - ugh!

VermillionVenusian said:
“Velvety tunnel” weirds me out big time, for some reason.

(To bring this tread back to its original topic ;) )
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So, to get back to the original post.

The word “of” used instead of “have” as, for example, “We should never of been strangers.” “Of” instead of “have” is what you see in social media comments written by badly educated contributors not in stories intended to be enjoyed by adult readers.

The word “drug” instead of “dragged.” This applies particularly to American authors who write, for example, “He drug the heavy box from the car” instead of “He dragged the heavy box from the car.” A drug is a pharmaceutical product. You’re writing for a world wide audience and you want them to remember the story for something other than a simple mistake.

“Sack” mistakenly used instead of “sac” when used to describe something containing naughty bits.
 
GroverLang said:
Someone, much more experienced and better than me, once told me “he said” can often be more effective than contriving to use another phrase in its place.
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I'm not suggesting substituting an adverbial variant, which, I agree, can often makes things worse.

Too often I see

Jim stared at her, menacingly.

"Take off your clothes," he said.
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I much prefer

Jim stared at her, menacingly.

"Take off your clothes."
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Of course it's sometimes useful, or even necessary for clarification, but it often gets peppered all over the dialog, which deprives it of immediacy.
 
GroverLang said:
The word “of” used instead of “have” as, for example, “We should never of been strangers.” “Of” instead of “have” is what you see in social media comments written by badly educated contributors not in stories intended to be enjoyed by adult readers.
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Except in dialogue of a character you are trying to frame for the readers, right?
 
Write it correctly for the character.

KeithD said:
Except in dialogue of a character you are trying to frame for the readers, right?
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Absolutely correct. Which is why I gave the Facebook example. If writing a story about people commenting on Facebook then in many cases you would have to allow for poor English, misspelling and use of words out of context in order to attain the accuracy.

If writing a story about the English aristocracy the diction would be much different from a farmer in Somerset and you would write accordingly. The same difference would presumably apply between New Jersey and Mississippi.

But it’s wrong when a writer uses it in a sentence because it’s their normal manner of speech rather than it’s there because of accuracy. I’m sure all Americans don’t use the word “drug” instead of “dragged” in the same way I’m sure “of” instead of “have” is international.
 
GroverLang said:
Absolutely correct. Which is why I gave the Facebook example. If writing a story about people commenting on Facebook then in many cases you would have to allow for poor English, misspelling and use of words out of context in order to attain the accuracy.

If writing a story about the English aristocracy the diction would be much different from a farmer in Somerset and you would write accordingly. The same difference would presumably apply between New Jersey and Mississippi.

But it’s wrong when a writer uses it in a sentence because it’s their normal manner of speech rather than it’s there because of accuracy. I’m sure all Americans don’t use the word “drug” instead of “dragged” in the same way I’m sure “of” instead of “have” is international.
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So dialect, in whatever variant, rather than grammatical perfection?
 
My stomach hurts from laughing at the Lego. OMG thank you, there are tears of joy

Who would of thought it ;-)
 
Ginlover said:
My stomach hurts from laughing at the Lego. OMG thank you, there are tears of joy

Who would of thought it ;-)
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Personally, I'm feeling a bit abashed that I don't recognize one of the sex toys in the Lego dungeon. What the heck is that red pear shaped thing with two holes in it that's hanging on the wall? Have I led a sheltered life?
 
SimonDoom said:
I take it they are easier to remove. But I'm not going to find out, either.
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You'd be amazed/saddened/mystified at some of the places we've pulled Lego pieces out of; 'nostrils' doesn't even come into it...

It's a sad fact, but some humans seem to feel that, if they have an orifice, at some point it deserves to have Lego fed into it...
 
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