We have talked about language in Frederick Douglas (did he write his own work? was it written for him? could he really have had that vocabulary? etc.), and we've talked about language in Nabokov (is he pompous? is he showing off? is that just the way that he thinks?)...
... so, my prompt is to write about something, anything basically, that happened this week that amused you or alarmed you or made you laugh, but you must write it the way that you would say it, write it in your own particular patterns of speech. Don't write it the way you would write a paper for a class.
I don't mean that you have to write dialogue; I just want you to use the same vocabulary and the same syntax that you would in normal conversation with a friend.
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