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The Weird writing in huckleberry Anonymous Tue Jan 26 20:49:06 2021 No.17390710 [Reply] [Original]

It might be that I'm dumb but there are just some parts that I just have to re read in order to understand them. One example of this weird writing that I saw is this one, " they didn't have only a guard of four hundred soldiers, and so we would lay in ambuscade..." is the little things that get to me whenever I read something starting "they didn't have only" I expect some sort of 'but' somewhere in order for it to make sense but there wasn't any not to mention no one really starts a sentence or part of a sentence with "they didn't have only." I haven't finish the book but so far this is my only complaint.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 26 20:51:59 2021 No.17390725 It's written in a vernacular. It's not proper English but in Huck Finn's voice.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 26 20:57:19 2021 No.17390758 it's the way a dumbass kid would have talked back then same shit as catcher in the rye in that regard

࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDYSEULU. Tue Jan 26 20:58:08 2021 No.17390765

>>17390710
>It might be that I'm dumb but there are just some parts that I just have to re read in order to understand them. One example of this weird writing that I saw is this one, " they didn't have only a guard of four hundred soldiers, and so we would lay in ambuscade..." is the little things that get to me whenever I read something starting "they didn't have only" I expect some sort of 'but' somewhere in order for it to make sense but there wasn't any...

THAT IS A LITERARY DEVICE CALLED: «ELLIPSIS».

>... not to mention no one really starts a sentence or part of a sentence with "they didn't have only."

?

>I haven't finish the book but so far this is my only complaint.

IT IS NOT THE AUTHOR'S FAULT, BUT, RATHER, YOUR IGNORANCE DUE TO LITERARY INEXPERIENCE.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 26 20:58:35 2021 No.17390769 >>17390710 >getting filtered by slang

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 26 21:00:20 2021 No.17390778 >>17390765 You are such a fucking moron.

>>	࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDYSEULU. Tue Jan 26 21:01:29 2021 No.17390783 >>17390778 I AM NOT THE ONE INCAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING A BASIC SENTENCE.

Anonymous Tue Jan 26 21:03:16 2021 No.17390790

>>17390758
I see, I'm just asking because I'm not a big reader so I tend to have difficulties reading books that are structure weird. I just picked this book at random while strolling a book store. The only other book besides this one that I managed to finish was the great gatsby and that book's writing was very unique. I guess I'll just get used to the unique writing of this book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 26 21:05:16 2021 No.17390803 >>17390765 No I used ellipsis to indicate that there was more to the sentence

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 26 21:05:46 2021 No.17390806 >>17390783 He's not even talking about the ellipses, you utter mong.

>>	࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDYSEULU. Tue Jan 26 21:07:41 2021 No.17390815 File: 287 KB, 470x506, H W H A.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>17390806 >>17390803 ... JUST STOP POSTING.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 26 21:07:54 2021 No.17390816 >>17390790 yeah just remember it's from the point of view of some dumb kid from the mid 1800s USA you should read Dune next, thank me later

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 26 21:09:28 2021 No.17390822 OP please note that while Finn calls his friend "Nigger Jim" if you make friends with a black guy don't call him Nigger then his first name or he will get mad

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 26 21:10:34 2021 No.17390825 >>17390815 Get off the board you dumb retard.

>>	࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ Tue Jan 26 21:10:47 2021 No.17390826 ALSO I LIKE TO RIDE SMELLY THROBBING BBCS ON A DAILY BASIS

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 26 21:12:16 2021 No.17390836 >>17390822 Wish you had told me sooner anon

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 26 21:19:50 2021 No.17390866 >>17390815 >>17390765 >dunning kruger kys you niggerrfaggot

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 26 22:08:52 2021 No.17391103 >>17390822 Nowadays you should use the title "black" instead of "nigger." E.g. Old Black Joe.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 26 22:44:46 2021 No.17391309 >>17390765 This board's quality will literally increase tenfold upon your demise

Anonymous Tue Jan 26 22:55:49 2021 No.17391359

>>17390725
>>17390758
>>17390769
>>17390816
>dumb retard kid from the 19th century can't even talk more good
>knows what the word 'ambuscade' means
yeah what the fuck ever
retard kid from 1800 would just say ambush like a dumb retard kid, or better, just say 'we hid in the bushes'

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 26 22:57:20 2021 No.17391365 >>17390765 stop posting please

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 26 23:19:31 2021 No.17391481 >>17391359 >Stupid people in the past used words that were common then but are now antiquated Mark Twain lived inside Huckleberry Finn. He did not makes any mistakes with the characters' voices

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 26 23:24:41 2021 No.17391500 >>17391481 You sound like my senior seminar professor who couldn't stop huffing the farts of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 26 23:32:41 2021 No.17391537 >>17391500 Don't know what Hemmingay and Hackner have to do with this

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