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--- On Fri, 7/11/08, Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at aapt.net.au> wrote:
> From: Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at aapt.net.au>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Writing semiliterate English (advice)
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, July 11, 2008, 8:08 AM
> 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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