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From: brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: welsh-ish names
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Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 12:38:12 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 11 12:38:12 1985
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> My point: Dialect is well and good when it adds to the story,
> but when you have to skip over the word even silently because
> it's unpronounceable, a line must be drawn.  Authors shouldn't
> give into the silliness I described above or, even worse, the
> follow the growing number of authors basing their books on 
> Celtic and non-Western mythos by inserting 'welsh-ish', or 
> 'japanese-ish' or swahili-ish' sounding words as a hook.
>                   (Reduce to simmer)
> 
> Jessie@ncsc
> -------

Er, um, I can't tell you how sorry I am
that you feel that way.  Allow me to suggest
that when BROKEDOWN PALALCE comes out you
don't read it.

		-- SKZB