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conulyPleasant enough...ending wraps up a bit too quickly. For the age level using the term "boobies" instead of "titties" might have been a better choice but maybe it is an Ohio thing?!
I mean... can we all just agree that it's a fairly informal way to refer to the Virgin Mary's breasts? Or anybody's, really. Is one word choice really different from another at that point?
(I haven't read the book and don't have any other context, other than that from the other reviews complaining about non-standard English in dialogue it looks like this is just how the protagonist's family speaks rather than that she's being deliberately irreverent or disrespectful.)
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I mean... can we all just agree that it's a fairly informal way to refer to the Virgin Mary's breasts? Or anybody's, really. Is one word choice really different from another at that point?
(I haven't read the book and don't have any other context, other than that from the other reviews complaining about non-standard English in dialogue it looks like this is just how the protagonist's family speaks rather than that she's being deliberately irreverent or disrespectful.)
Meet the world’s first (and only) cat and mouse armorer
Humans Walk Weird. Scientists May Finally Know Why
The Fossil Flowers That Rewrote the History of Life
Pissoirs: The vintage public urinals of Paris, 1865-1875
Snowflake Bentley’s 19th-century images of snow crystals put online
The MetroCard’s 28 Years As a Blank Canvas
How Children Conjure a Snow Day
They Meet Up in Motels Across America…to Trade Old Beer Cans
'Exceptionally rare' discovery shows a dinosaur ate a mammal around 120 million years ago
You are the Army Corps of Engineers. You design a cat calendar. (Is this something they publish every year!?)
How Jersey City Got to Zero Traffic Deaths on Its Streets
The Original Tiger Kings
White contractors wouldn’t remove Confederate statues. So a Black man did it.
‘Not just the ramp.’ Worship spaces need more accessibility
A fossil tooth, a splashy debate, and a strange chapter in America’s long history of science denialism.
The Bizarre Case of New Zealand’s Exploding Pants
FDA to expand availability of abortion pills
What Causes Alzheimer’s? Scientists Are Rethinking the Answer.
The Homeownership Society Was a Mistake
‘Romeo & Juliet’ stars sue over 1968 film’s teen nude scene
The Secret History of The Pinkertons
The Opioid Epidemic Is Surging among Black People because of Unequal Access to Treatment
The Secret Abortions of Texas
A Water War Is Brewing Over the Dwindling Colorado River
Ukraine's young circus artists wow Budapest after training in bomb shelters at home
‘I saw it was over’: the boy who tried to escape war in Ukraine via Russia
North Korea has made steady progress in expanding its missile programme, developing weapons that can strike across the globe - or hit critical targets closer to home.
Welfare scandal sharpens contrasts in long-poor Mississippi
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Date: 2023-01-06 01:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-06 02:58 pm (UTC)Yeah, maybe it is a regional thing, but I would say 'titties' sounds way more grown-up than 'boobies'. (...Ï probably would not use either one for the Mother of God unless I was being deliberately disrespectful, though.) But it depends on the age level - it would feel wrong in a picture book, in an older chapter book for say 11/13 I wouldn't blink at "titties", it's the sort of medium word you use when you're starting to experiment with grown-up words, or that adults start using around you because you're more grown-up.
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Date: 2023-01-06 03:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-06 09:15 pm (UTC)Ohio?
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Date: 2023-01-07 06:14 pm (UTC)And, again, from the context I think this really is just the word the protagonist can be assumed to be most familiar with for dialect reasons. I don't know if the dialect is represented accurately or not.
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Date: 2023-01-07 06:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-01-07 11:11 pm (UTC)no subject
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