Although we've run features on dialects before ( British for Americans, American for Brits), LOLCAT is something new for fandom_grammar in that it's an English dialect derived from a non-English language. It's also a fairly new dialect, only coming into being with the advent of computer keyboards-pens and typewriter keys having been beyond the abilities of cat ( Read more... )

Dialogue is one of several tools that an author uses to establish characters and make them distinct from one another. If you're writing fanfiction (or parody, or pastiche), getting the voices of your borrowed characters to match the author's original renditions can be as important as making their physical descriptions accurate. Still, it's likely ( Read more... )

Wesley: Her abuse of the English language is such that I understand only every other sentence.

Believe it or not, the same kind of issues we talk about in fandom_grammar appears in the source text of some of our favorite fandoms. For this Feature, we've gathered some of these examples and are going to break down the grammar and syntax topics they discuss.

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