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Old 10-24-2020, 12:06 PM   #38
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
If there are bunch of people chit-chating, then you might address a particular person. It's weird if there are only two people chatting. Unless it gets to shouting and rage and then in some cultures the other person's name might shouted.
"Bob, will you shut up!" Jack screamed.
"Jack, what are you doing?" exclaimed Bob.

Maybe.

"As you know" can be stupid. Especially at a badly done info dump.
"As you know Bob" is always stupid. It's impossible to do it well unless you construct some potboiler plotline where the hearer has lost their memory or some absurd contrivance like that. That's why you get hangers-on; so that MCs can explain things that "everybody knows" to the hanger-on/third party and by virtue thereof, the audience.

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