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Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

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The confusion regarding who says what becomes much bigger if there are more than two people conversing.<br />

In this situation, one is often forced to after each replica tell who uttered it. Then it might not at all be<br />

possible to use the "he said/she", as all may be men or women. The basic rule is then to use the names. But it<br />

will obviously pretty quickly get tedious. A common allternativ is to find other determinations for some<br />

people, such as in the following example in which one of the players called the "police officer" while the<br />

main characters “Gunvald Larsson” and "Kollberg" are called by their names:<br />

"- Get on them boys, commanded the police in command. Now enough is enough.<br />

More white batons were drawn and became visible.<br />

- Stop, roared Gunvald Larsson with his stentorian voice.<br />

All activity ceased.<br />

Gunvald Larsson stepped forward and said:<br />

- What is it about<br />

- I clear the area in front of the roadblock, said the older of the two police men.<br />

The gold stripe around his sleeve showed that he was a first police assistant.<br />

- But this is fuckin nothing to block, Gunvald Larsson said angrily.<br />

- No Hult, said Kollberg."<br />

It is usually better that people in the dialogue does something that shows their feelings than to write that they<br />

are in a certain state of mind.<br />

"- Fucking asshole! She said and slammed the door."<br />

Sounds better than:<br />

"- Fucking asshole! She said angrily."<br />

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