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Originally Posted by GraceKrispy
I have a few different modes of writing, and since I use my "professional" writing skills all day long, I tend to be much more informal on MR... my writing on boards resembles how I speak. How I speak when I'm not in my professional mode, that is. Which I'm not in right now. Obviously.  |
Yep, I do the same thing. I tend to see (hear?) forum discussions as conversations in my head, rather than written communications. Consequently, I tend to write in forums more like I speak, with slangy terms like
yep,
gonna,
wanna, and even:
'cause (with the apostrophe, of course). And I don't object to such terms being used in books, when they're part of the dialogue or character-appropriate inner monologue. Commas, though? Gotta get 'em right, 'cause punctuation errors throw the reader out of the story, and noboby wants that.
Maria