From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article ,   
   William Vetter   wrote:   
   >Dorothy J Heydt wrote:   
   >>   
   >> I'm currently writing a character of Terran descent who grew up   
   >> on Mars and is currently passing for half-Martian (there are no   
   >> other Martians in the vicinity to out him), simply by speaking   
   >> Terran with two Martian characteristics: no contractions, no   
   >> sentence fragments.  It looks all right to *me*, but I haven't   
   >> yet had a chance to get anybody else to look at it.   
   >>   
   >When you write SF in English, and have no contractions in the dialog,   
   >people, like the people in SF writers' workshops, will say "Lt. Data,"   
   >and if they're the dogmatic sort, they'll go on about "million-dollar   
   >robot who can't handle contractions is SF cliche" and stuff like that.   
   >I mention this because Yoda has been brought up, not because I   
   >necessarily believe that or would react that way myself.   
      
   Well, when (if) I ever get to the point of finding some readers,   
   we'll see if anybody abreacts.   
      
   --   
   Dorothy J. Heydt   
   Vallejo, California   
   djheydt at gmail dot com   
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