Just for the record, I didn’t say that “I went to a fun party” was the same as “I ain’t never been there.” What I said was that you can tell something about a character by his or her vocabulary.

For example, if I were writing about a person claiming to be an English professor at, say, Wake Forest University and she said, “It was just the funnest time,” the reader might wonder if she were all on the up and up. Of course, it might turn out that she is, in fact, a professor but is trying to seem younger than she is because she has a young boyfriend.

I never said I was judging a person for saying “funner” (even though I really tried to keep my own sons from saying it).

bye
Mary Ann