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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
I'll overlook some poor grammar if the story is good. But it has to be a really good story, because there are other good stories out there with good grammar. Bad grammar is like potholes on the road, it makes the experience less smooth. Of course grammarians are always wrong - eventually.
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I just finished listening to all six volumes of Nathan Lowell's "Traders Tales" from "The Golden Age of the Solar Clipper."
Great series, and well told.
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Here it is, by the way.)
But it was constantly jarring to hear an otherwise well spoken main character, who was raised and educated by a lit professor, repeatly misuse "I" and "me." I had to keep telling myself "Well, this is set in the 24th century...maybe the rules of grammar have changed by then...."
I similarly had to wonder during the first two books if at some point in the next few hundred years people start referring to "steam rooms" as "saunas" having completely forgotten the distinction between wet and dry heat.
Still, I like the stories.....
