Children Can Speak Correctly

[dreiser]

It is not cute when you write children in fics as constantly replacing the letter/sound 'r' with the letter/sound 'w'. In fact, it is the opposite of cute. It is fucking annoying and slightly insulting to imply that just because a child is younger they can't pronounce things correctly. Not all children pronounce words wrong and write certain letters backwards. This constant assumption in fics that kids do this is aggravating to me and I don't even want children. It's just... you can write a child without writing them as doing these cliche verbal mispronunciations. There's plenty of ways to make it clear they're a young child besides having them mispronounce.

UGH. It grates on me. I'm reading a fic right now I love love love except everytime the kid talks it's fucking "fow" instead of "for" and argggh for the love of god have the kid fucking say things correctly. It's just as bad as writing out a southern accent overdone in dialogue. I cannot stand.

Also? Continue to suck it Rangers and fuck yeah, go Cards. I hope we end this shit by game four. That's right.

Comments

[ein_myria (from livejournal.com)]

lol omg your point about children being able to speak correctly is so spot on. I was just reading inadaze22's Broken when I realized how annoying that was.

[ein_myria (from livejournal.com)]

Whoops, I meant inadaze22's*

(Keep forgetting how to code in LJ; so used to typing in DW.)

[sulkygeek.livejournal.com]

haha YES!

This makes me more frustrated now because NONE of my kids speak like that. They might say "him's sad" instead of "he's sad" but never "I wode my twicycle"