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04 Feb 2011, 3:25 pm

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When I was little, I used to say things like, "I have an injury" instead of "I have a boo-boo" or "I got hurt."


LOL. When I was 3 or 4 I was in the hospital for asthma and I told the nurse I had to make a bowel movement.


When I was in grad school, another grad student said that I "talked like a textbook". That's pretty bad, considering that most grad students are pretty articulate. I must be pretty bad.


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04 Feb 2011, 3:28 pm

My writing style is pretty formal, with lots of "ifs" and "buts" and lots of extra clauses. I tend to use formal language, but I've been training myself to use slang once in a while. I tend to ramble on, because I hate to be misunderstood, so I really want to make sure that I say exactly what I mean.


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04 Feb 2011, 3:33 pm

Yensid wrote:
My writing style is pretty formal, with lots of "ifs" and "buts" and lots of extra clauses. I tend to use formal language, but I've been training myself to use slang once in a while. I tend to ramble on, because I hate to be misunderstood, so I really want to make sure that I say exactly what I mean.


I started using slang actively sometime in my 20s, but it was pretty idiosyncratic and eclectic, and not actually the slang popular at the time. Well, some of the slang. I actually picked up some textisms on livejournal, but I find it very difficult to primarily write in them. Mostly, they're more like knowing how to answer "How are you?" when someone asks casually.



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04 Feb 2011, 3:59 pm

I've been told my writing style is very quirky. I'm a good writer, but I do write a lot and tend to go on and on. I failed a paper once because I wrote a 15 page essay for an 8 page assignment. Oops.