Max - It smacks of recorded language - dictated into a recording device and
transcribed by a diligent but unimaginative scribe. There is a difference
between how we speak and how we write, as you no doubt know. Interesting
that she should let it through to print, though. I would' have rewritten the
whole sentence.
Andrew
2009/12/9 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> I read in a bookshop newsletter about
>
> 'a moving novel thats effect builds slowly and then continues' etc
>
> Is this 'thats' a new word?
>
> The writer I guess wanted to avoid the word 'whose' and couldn't come up
> with the
> old 'effect of which'.
>
> (the words are attributed to Sophie Cunningham, editor of Meanin Quarterly,
> and a
> published novelist)
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Andrew
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