[HPforGrownups] Fan Readings & Subversion (WAS: Where's the Canon -- Part Two)

[Lucy Austin]

No: HPFGUIDX 35133

>Pen said:

>The other thing that annoys me is word repetition.  I know that 'thesaurus
disease' is undesirable, but then again, when listening to a sentence or
paragraph in which a word is re-used several times, I get cross.  I mean,
repeating 'blast-ended skrewt' is reasonable, as there can be no synonyms,
but why repeat, oh, say, 'excellent'?

>It seems to me that someone in the editing department could be a little
more observant.

That's weird, because I've often been impressed by just how often JKR uses more complex words than you would usually expect to find in a book which many people describe as 'mainly for children'. I can't come up with any immediate examples, but I've often been reading or listening and thought to myself, 'now that'll improve children's use of language, to know that there are so many different ways of putting something'!

Lucy the Drifty


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