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Originally Posted by queentess
If this were an adult book I'd agree with you. In a children's book, I want to teach my child proper grammar. She can't make the distinction between using different grammar in dialog or the story.
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But the way a character speaks is one of the ways the author defines and differentiates each character. Children and adults speak differently, educated and uneducated people speak differently. Why try to homogenize characters?