Proper Words Versus Sound Words

In this blog post I would like to address the interesting circuit board in the Human brain that I like to refer to as proper words vs. sound words, or rather words that are dictionarily correct vs. words that sound more like what you're actually trying to say. Proper words are good to use in some ways, but they can make writing boring beyond all reason. If one only uses proper words to describe the world around themselves then they'll come up with a very boring and tragic world. For example, "yes, father, I believe that I would like those carrots" compared to "yeah, father I believe that I'd like some of them carrots." Now, of course there's nothing wrong with that first dialogue, if you're trying make the character sound like an orphan or someone that grew up in the 1800's that's perfectly fine, but if you were actually going for what's described in #2, you're way off.

However, sounding words have their downsides as well. It's much better to try to use a word that doesn't confuse your audience. For example, "she went back and tamed," sounds a little bit more confusing and will take the reader much longer to figure out that this means, "she went back in time," unless, of course, you were deliberately trying to confuse your audience, which you very well could be. If a little girl was saying that to her mother after her older sister suddenly disappeared through a time rift, I'd find that first sentence quite hilarious really. In other words, sound words, or sounding words, are an excellent way of describing oneself as long as there is a situation and a need to do so. You can also use sound words as a narrator to describe your personal feelings about a subject like I do. As I've said before, I've never been a proper Croacian, so my words match far more with speech rather than with what's proper. I, in my own opinion, believe that names aren't important, therefore, I have no real reason to stick to we're instead of were when describing those such as the Time Twins. Moreover, when I use things such as this, it hints out to the reader what I'm actually trying to say. Sometimes I find that Necross eyes sounds much better than Necross' eyes, so I have a tendency to omit that ', but I think that people still very much so understand what I'm trying to say.