Tag: vocablary
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Changing for the better?
The English language is constantly growing and evolving. What’s that? You already knew that? Well, so did I. But for some reason, this not-so-surprising thought whapped me upside the head the other day. A writer friend and I were at Starbucks (where else?) when she asked if I thought OMG was in the dictionary yet. […]
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Vocabulary lesson
The hero in my WIP, Cody, has a tendency to use big words and shrink-speak when he’s upset, angry or flustered. (There’s a reason he has a T-shirt that says “I’m fluent in psychobabble.”) It turns out Cody and I have that in common. Now that I’m writing fiction fairly regularly, I notice myself trying […]