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From: kort@hounx.UUCP (B.KORT)
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Subject: Re: Do I feel sparks? (grammar/spelling)
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 09:57:13 EST
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Right you are, Marnix!  I wouldn't want to see us become too
homogenized.  If Alice Walker can write in dialect, so can Becky
and Frye.  I am reminded of the scene in Neil Simon's _Murder by
Death_ in which Lionel Twain (played by the highly literate Truman
Capote) expressess his irritation at Inspector Wang (played by the
highly irreverent Peter Sellers) for his imperfect grammar.  When
Wang observes, "Moose on wall is watching us," we hear Capote's
disembodied voice saying, "It's *THE* moose, Mr. Wang, *THE* moose.
Say your God damn articles!"

--Barry Kort