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Originally Posted by Sirtel
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.
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Yes, the author can do anything appropriate to ethnicity / culture / class / period in dialogue, but not otherwise.
Publishers used to employ good editors. Now even the Agents expect polished work, so more junk slips through than 50 years ago.