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[kailan]

So I'm reading Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy and I have once again stumbled across one of my absolute number one pet peeves to see in any writer's prose ever. Fortunately Sanderson doesn't do it too often but I've seen fanfic writers do it (Xil) too and AUGH:

By doing so, he would leave the others to their own devices. What's more, he would

Comments

[anonymous]

Bouquetが第一希望。

[selie]

Can't it be "what was"?

[kailan]

Sure. You can use it that way informally (and a lot of people do), but technically speaking, it really is grammatically incorrect. XD

I realize this is a silly thing to be irritated about, given how fluid the English language is, but man, that particular juxtaposition just bugs me. @_@

[shiftingpath]

Does Mistborn read like Stranger Than Fiction? Because that is some ridiculous narration.