Mario Taboada wrote:
> I'v come to the conclusion that abusing slang is a
weakness
> in a writer. If a story is good, you don't need so
much
> garnish. A bit goes a long way. Even Chandler's
patois gets
> tiresome sometimes.
************** This hit a chord with me, Mario. I've been
reading Bant Singer's YOU'RE WRONG, DELANEY. I can handle
just about any amount of slang or bad grammar in dialogue,
but when I've got to read a first person narrative where the
whole thing is slang, like Singer's novel, I have a hard time
with it. It got me to thinking about the great classic of
slang, Twain's HUCKLEBERRY FINN, and thinking surely the
whole narrative isn't slang, so I checked it out. It
is.
miker
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