Timeline for Have American writing styles changed between the Civil War and Today?
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| Jun 17, 2020 at 9:02 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 18, 2014 at 17:54 | comment | added | Razie Mah | Lol. ok. Yes, this would be example of realism. Poetic it is not. | |
| Mar 18, 2014 at 17:48 | comment | added | Oldcat | The question is exactly that things written then are overall far better - more poetic - than things written now. Here is something written then that shows otherwise. | |
| Mar 18, 2014 at 17:42 | comment | added | Razie Mah | Its a dialect humor of a dialect that no longer exists. How do you know it isn't good? That's besides the point, it just doesn't address the question. I've read a lot of badly written letters too. I added an explanation to my answer. We don't need to know if everyone had a developed style, but if the selected portion of famous letters represents an actual difference in writing style of the period. | |
| Mar 18, 2014 at 17:35 | comment | added | Oldcat | I have also read plenty of published letters from the period that do not have perfect English in them. | |
| Mar 18, 2014 at 17:34 | comment | added | Oldcat | The question is about writing styles. Here is a writing style that we do not often see from the period, but was popular and presumably common, as it was published in the newspapers right next to those well written accounts. | |
| Mar 18, 2014 at 17:31 | comment | added | Razie Mah | This is fiction. I don't see how it explains a selection bias in nonfictional accounts of a historical event. | |
| Mar 17, 2014 at 22:10 | history | answered | Oldcat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |