[lbo-talk] Writing semiliterate English (advice)

Bill Bartlett billbartlett at aapt.net.au
Fri Jul 11 06:08:16 PDT 2008


At 5:33 AM -0700 11/7/08, Chris Doss wrote:


> If eye rite de wurdz like dis it lukz stoopid. Can anybody point me
>at an example of a similar English document (written by a
>semiliterate or somebody successfully pretending to be a
>semiliterate) that I can use as an example? The nearest I can think
>of off the cuff are some of Dickens' and Faulkner's dialogue, and I
>don't want Rasputin to sound like a cockney waif or like he lived in
>Mississippi in 1910.
>
>

You are over-doing it. Try:

If I rite wordes lik this it luk dumb.

also have to re-arrange the sentence a bit:

can anibody point me at ekample of simlar inglish dockment (ritten by a elitrat or sumwun who sucksessfelly pretend he be unlitrate).



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