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Post by c1a1 on Dec 27, 2016 12:10:13 GMT -5
So I was (re)reading "Picking up the pieces" and was just reading "If we left right" and of course that's when I was distracted and i was like Huh? left right?like?  |
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Post by Wes on Dec 27, 2016 15:09:44 GMT -5
Yeah, I was rereading the same book the other night and spotted a few other things I'd like to change if I ever open it up again. Nothing major, but some commas, words being reiterated too quickly, and things like that.
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Post by c1a1 on Dec 28, 2016 4:40:45 GMT -5
Wes,there is absolutely nothing wrong in the half sentence I quoted and I didn't mean to imply that there is, I just found it funny to get interrupted exactly there and this road sing just jumped into my mind. Of course you can say "if we left immediately after... " but left right is the way we normally talk (and it sounds less pompous)and perfectly acceptable (unless you get distracted after right  ). |
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Post by Wes on Dec 28, 2016 8:52:48 GMT -5
Oh, I don't disagree. I try to reflect how people sound, even though the grammar Nazis sometimes have fits over it.
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Post by Ernest Bywater on Dec 28, 2016 19:37:54 GMT -5
In my story 'Survivor' I've the story start in New South Wales, Australia - here we drive on the left and keep left - I go to a lot of trouble showing it's in Australia, and a little later the main character flies fifteen hours from Sydney, NSW, to Dallas, Texas - yet I still got a lot of emails from USA readers saying I had the vehicles on the wrong side of the road in the accident scene - you just CAN'T win at all.
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