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Originally Posted by Catlady
Depends. If your first example were a semiliterate character writing the information in a note, say, it could be an authorial choice.
All I'm saying is that a sentence cannot always be taken out of context to decide if something is an error. That's why I don't like the idea of Amazon relying on reader reports alone. I've seen too many instances of people claiming something is wrong when they have no clue--I'm sure there are those who would attempt to correct your second example, failing to understand that the nonstandard usage is deliberate. I am in no way defending authors who mangle the English language out of ignorance.
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Yes--if it were a note. The difficulty arises when we see authors writing that way for the characters' dialogue (there, theyr'e, their). As the reader is seeing text that the character is not seeing, nor spelling...that's a hot mess. If the character is writing--sure. But not in dialogue. Regional pronunciations, again, sure. But homonym errata and the like? Not for speaking characters.
Hitch