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August 15, 2007

Jeff R.: Meta

"Interesting. But how would distinguish the speakers?"

"Context?"

"That may overestimate the reader's intelligence."

"Well, you could give them each heavy accents and write in dialect."

"How gauche. One might as well use html tags to give each speaker a unique font or color."

"Hey, wait, guys, we've got the entire wrong questions here."

"How so?"

"Yes, explain yourself."

"See, a dialog's a conversation between two people. With three of us, it's something else. A trialog?"

"Andy..."

"Hey, don't bite my head off. Figuratively speaking."

"Come here, Andy."

"Okay, I guess...Gah!"

"Jesus, what a mess."

"If only he'd specified 'literally'..."

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Comments

Well crap.

My story was coming along so gauchely.

Posted by: kipp at August 15, 2007 3:04 PM · Permalink