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Originally Posted by HarryT
If we're talking about bad grammar, should it not be "kids' books"?
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Had the same thought
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
I don't like it when people in books talk dead proper like that. Don't matter if they is kids or not, nobody in that there real world talks like that.
“Please, Mother, may I have a confectionary treat for my friend and I?”
“Giz us a scoff for me and me mate, Mam.”
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I hate the dead proper talk too, but there should be a happy medium between slang vs proper. And I'm not sure that having proper grammar for everything except "me vs I" is believable either. Especially when a child is just learning proper grammar.
I have a coworker who says things like, "We was going to" and "I haven't saw him today". I do NOT want my child learning to speak like that.