>Wardine be Cry.
>>7672825
Epic jest friend.
JEST
>>7672825
Nice meme, but in all seriousness is there any explanation for why DFW would choose to write such a poorly rendered dialect? Or was this just a failed attempt at an actual recreation?
>inb4 authorial intent is dead
>>7672875
Roy Tony made him do it
>>7672875
He did an actual recreation in Broom of the system. It was more convincing. With Infinite Jest, he was trying to do a less ambitious version of what Joyce did in Finnegans Wake and invent some modes of speech that were based on real ones but appreciably different.
>>7672825
>David be Kill
The book is set in the future and racist white dfw assumed ebonics would grammatically degenerate further.