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Originally Posted by nabsltd
I've seen it, along with "I could of been mistaken" (instead of "could have") and "He's lyin, is all I'm sayin." (omitting the apostrophe)
Both were intentional by the author to indicate the character's brain actually formed the words that way on purpose. And, these examples are from books that are now at least 20 years old, and some close to 50.
As far as I'm concerned, dialog in books has the same rules of grammar as dialog in reality...none.
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The instances I was ranting about were not in a dialog, though. I would certainly forgive the use if I sensed it was intentional. Sadly not in this case, just sloppy writing and editing.