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Originally Posted by NatCh
This is most certainly the case, as Mr. Runyon was a character who truly knew what time it was when it came to capturing the language-type patterns of the people about whom he typically wrote.
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Another wonderful example of an author who perfectly captures dialect speech is Mark Twain, of course. I read recently that in "Tom Sawyer" no fewer than seven different dialects (most of which no longer exist today) are faithfully represented. If you tried to re-write Tom Sawyer in "standard English" (whatever that is) you'd just destroy the book.