I am still twitching slightly.
Seriously, dropping an "n" at the end of every "ing" sound does not make your writing sound like the speech of working class Dubliners. Nor does saying "ta" instead of "to" and "ya" instead of "you". It's absolutely appalling, lazy writing, the sort of thing that would only impress someone who's never actually talked to a working class person for more than two minutes in a row. I've said this before, but the ability to write good dialect is incredibly rare, and unless it's done well - Irvine Welsh, Paul Howard - it's noxious and patronising and unreadable. I'll give this book another shot, but every dropped 'n' makes me want to throw it across the room. And there are a lot of dropped 'n's.
- Current Mood:my buttons being pushed
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[1] Anyone, really, as long as they're not a culchie.
*is further ashamed*
And we'll continue to tip some quaint urchin 10 euro to keep an eye on our car during the All Ireland finals.
Now, that's a fair trick.
*fiddles the dole while havin anudder dozen babies*
Cos that's what we do in the country.
I'm goin' ta scream bloody moooooorthah.
Oops.
Ugh.
Sorry I missed your text earlier - I was waiting so long in Therapie that it was well after three when I got out and then my phone died. I can't believe the dress didn't fit! For fuck's sake. Will you get it before you go?
So true. So very very true.