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I'm pretty sure "Really?" would be found in many of the classics... "'Really?' He cocked a sardonic eyebrow"... etc
Well even the writers of today don't use modern language except in dialog. And that's always the case... people in books speak in the language of their time but the prose generally doesn't.
SAS, another cretin for you ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I think 'really' as an expression of mild surprise, in context, is ok, such as "really? well i never would have guessed......." but to replace the whole sentence with the one word is such a shame.
I'm pretty sure "Really?" would be found in many of the classics... "'Really?' He cocked a sardonic eyebrow"... etc
Imagine if the writers of the great literary works had used todays modern language
Well even the writers of today don't use modern language except in dialog. And that's always the case... people in books speak in the language of their time but the prose generally doesn't.
I think 'really' as an expression of mild surprise, in context, is ok, such as "really? well i never would have guessed......." but to replace the whole sentence with the one word is such a shame. Imagine if the writers of the great literary works had used todays modern language
I think 'really' as an expression of mild surprise, in context, is ok, such as "really? well i never would have guessed......." but to replace the whole sentence with the one word is such a shame. Imagine if the writers of the great literary works had used todays modern language
I think 'really' as an expression of mild surprise, in context, is ok, such as "really? well i never would have guessed......." but to replace the whole sentence with the one word is such a shame. Imagine if the writers of the great literary works had used todays modern language
You potato crunchers are exempt from this. Beyond help
Fair point
Actually, I've googled it and found a thread on another forum which kind of explains it. Also indicates it's a "Culchie" thing. And unfortunatly despite spending my early years in D4, moving to the country did turn me into somewhat of a culchie
We used to speak in regional dialects until invention of the "Queens English" when courtiers were forced to change their speak for the Queen ERI, Except for Walter Raleigh that is who was allowed to speak in his native West country accent. In the late 1700s came the London centric fashion for adding redundant 'Rs' to words. Both of these fashions have somehow become amalgamated and are now by many seen as the correct way to speak, when they are just modern bastardisation of the spoken English language. The Americanisms you loathe are the latest fashion and no less culturally valid than QE and fake rs.
Sir Wally was allowed to do what he wanted cos he always had taters and fags!!!
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