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RE: We-Write #4: The Storm + Last Week's Winner Announced!
To comes up with the circumstances for this story isn't difficult but to maintain the china thin delicacy of constructed speech is very hard. I just watched some chunks of Pride and Prejudice on Youtube and, oh boy, what a complex way to express simple thoughts they employed back then! )))
"You are the last man in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry"
Ha! I'm so glad we've "evolved".
Yes, but the prompted story seems to be placed at around that time ( the beginning of the nineteenth century) and for a "friking ferner" as I am replicating this type of speech is ohhh so tough. )))
What is a friking ferner?
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That's how I was kiddingly called in one of the writer's groups I used to participate. "Ferner" was, apparently, Scottish transcription of the word "foreigner" whereas I will leave to your imagination to associate the word "friking" with a very closely pronounced profanity. )))
I think that's a line from the version starring Keira Knightley, which is one of my favorite movies! It's great drama and wit, but certainly more complicated speech than most people use (nowadays, anyway).
That's for sure. )))
Have you seen that I've been buying sbi for those who entered for your prompt and write either to continue mine, @mgaft's or @wwwiebe's?
Check this one out for more details
https://steempeak.com/powerhousecreatives/@wwwiebe/stormy-weather-a-continuation
So I love your idea after all! SO MUCH FUN!