EDITORIAL: Daniel Sosnoski's "Butter My Butt and Call Me a Biscuit!"

Friday, 14 August 2015 18:18
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There is nothing quite so amusing about living in the American South as overhearing your fellow Southerners’ lingo while waiting in line at the supermarket.  Besides the inevitable “dag burn” here and “ain’t” there, there’s a long list of colorful, exaggerated expressions that Southern speakers often customize when using, making these expressions more colorful and exaggerated than before.  Daniel Sosnoski covers one such expression, “butter my butt and call me a biscuit!” as well as a wide range of its variants (including the racier ones) in this very thorough article.  He touches a little on the friendly, humorous nature of this and other expressions, even the ones that are a bit (or a lot) on the insulting side.

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Answer: Are Run-on Sentences Allowed in Dialog?

Monday, 16 February 2015 10:33
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[livejournal.com profile] badtzphoto was wondering whether run-on sentences are allowed in dialogue. To answer this, we'll first take a closer look at the nature of run-on sentences and then explore what happens when one is used in dialog.

( With help from the cast of the classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee … )
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Answer: Another thing/think coming?

Monday, 5 November 2012 18:19
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[livejournal.com profile] carodee asks “Which option in this sentence is correct: ‘if you think ___, you’ve got another thing/think coming.’?”

An interesting question!  ( Let's take a look at it with some help from Buffy and Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Bill Cosby. )
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FEATURE: Writing Canon-Consistent Dialogue

Friday, 25 March 2011 08:03
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Dialogue is one of several tools that an author uses to establish characters and make them distinct from one another. If you're writing fanfiction (or parody, or pastiche), getting the voices of your borrowed characters to match the author's original renditions can be as important as making their physical descriptions accurate. Still, it's likely that all of us have had the experience of writing a scene in which our favorite characters simply don't sound like themselves. How can this situation be remedied?

( With examples from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Saiyuki, and Rosemary Sutcliff's Eagle of the Ninth )
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Answer: Woulda, coulda, shoulda: Why is "Should of" not correct?

Monday, 17 December 2007 20:30
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Answer: What is the correct punctuation for speech that "trails off"?

Monday, 26 November 2007 14:37
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with examples from Stargate: SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, and Fullmetal Alchemist

[livejournal.com profile] velocitygrass asks: What is the correct punctuation for speech that "trails off"? What is the punctuation for interruption (either by yourself or someone else)?

Many people will tell you that trailing-off punctuation is largely a result of stylistic choices. Personally, I disagree. Punctuation tells you how to read a sentence. It's as scientific as writing ever gets. Each symbol for punctuation correlates to a different, specific meaning and the punctuations for pauses each determine a different length of pause. Punctuation that indicates trailing off or interruptions can be very different, as well, and if not properly punctuated could convey a meaning very different from the intended meaning.

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Answer: When should you use “who” versus “whom”?

Monday, 19 November 2007 15:22
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...with examples from Stargate SG-1 and House


In the Stargate SG-1 Season 4 episode “2010,” Jack O’Neill has the following exchange with Sam’s husband, Joe:

Jack: Did you get it?
Joe: Yes.
Sam: Thank you.
Joe: What are you gonna do with it?
Jack: Send a message.
Joe: To who?
Jack: To whom.

( Is Jack right? Should Joe have used 'whom'? If so, why? )

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