Comments on: Real People Do Not Speak in Complete Sentences http://mtsneffelspress.com/2009/01/04/real-people-do-not-speak-in-complete-sentences/ Giving voice to authors on the Colorado Western Slope Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:51:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: susan palmer http://mtsneffelspress.com/2009/01/04/real-people-do-not-speak-in-complete-sentences/comment-page-1/#comment-125 susan palmer Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:56:29 +0000 http://mtsneffelspress.com/?p=375#comment-125 No kidding. But try to remember your audience and don't write teen-speak if your audience is too "old" to understand it. You teens know what I mean. And those to of us who are over thirty, try to keep some of the English language going. Use those difficult, exciting words, flamboyant words, obsolete terminology. Otherwise the dictionary will drop them from print and we all lose their value. My kids used to say, "talk normal, mom." What they meant, of course, is that I should dumb down my language. This is not a good idea. No kidding. But try to remember your audience and don’t write teen-speak if your audience is too “old” to understand it. You teens know what I mean.

And those to of us who are over thirty, try to keep some of the English language going. Use those difficult, exciting words, flamboyant words, obsolete terminology. Otherwise the dictionary will drop them from print and we all lose their value. My kids used to say, “talk normal, mom.” What they meant, of course, is that I should dumb down my language. This is not a good idea.

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