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Where the Allegheny Meets the Monongahela - New story by Testa Dura!

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Monika:
chapter 3

http://testa-dura.livejournal.com/31306.html

Luvlylittlewing:

--- Quote from: buffymon on March 19, 2009, 03:55:21 pm ---chapter 3

http://testa-dura.livejournal.com/31306.html

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Just read all three chapters, and I'm genuinely impressed.  I was drawn in from the beginning, even though it is diffcult reading about Ennis beating down poor Alma.    I can't wait for chapter 4.  I'm hooked!

louisev:
I don't find a lot of use in giving two characters a dialect that I don't see related to Pennsylvania in any way, while the others talk in an uninflected fashion.  It just puts me off the story.  And it may not be a "Wyoming" dialect, but it sure hews close enough to what Annie Proulx's dialect is in "Brokeback" up to and including "warsh".

Never met a Pennsylvania native that said "warsh."

Brown Eyes:

--- Quote from: louisev on March 20, 2009, 02:06:30 pm ---I don't find a lot of use in giving two characters a dialect that I don't see related to Pennsylvania in any way, while the others talk in an uninflected fashion.  It just puts me off the story.  And it may not be a "Wyoming" dialect, but it sure hews close enough to what Annie Proulx's dialect is in "Brokeback" up to and including "warsh".

Never met a Pennsylvania native that said "warsh."

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Well, as I posted a while back, I asked her about the use of language directly and she said it was deliberate and not meant to indicate a dialect.

Testadura:
In the Ohio valley - in which I was BORN and reared - it is very very common to hear warsh.  In fact they even say warshing machine.  The closer you get to West Virginia the more you hear it.

Thanks for reading,

Tes

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