[ SECRET POST #2718 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2718 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

But, is it something you'd see in a published novel?

(I'd get it then, but otherwise I'd have to agree with the OP that it doesn't belong in fic.)

[quantumreality]

Certainly in dialectical form, or perhaps in-verse in an internal corporate communication, or for that matter in casual written communication ("Dear Larry, I'm passing thru your town in a month, etc.") - I can probably come up with other examples where the usage actually works to give some verisimilitude.

[(Anonymous)]

I suppose that makes sense, but I don't think it works when it's not stylistically chosen to aid the narrative.

Carl had to pass thru the kitchen to get to the bathroom. He then had to dig thru the medicine cabinet to find the pills his mother so desperately needs to survive.

In the passage below (written on the fly) the use of thru doesn't mean anything in the passage. It doesn't tell us anything about Carl. I don't know, it just reads as lazy to me.

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