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Alice said: \\\"Said Bookism? What\\\'s that?\\\"
Bob said: \\\"Well, it\\\'s a variety of Purple Prose in which the writer goes out of their way to avoid the word said.\\\"
Alice said: \\\"Why would they do this?\\\"
Bob said: \\\"Because, it was the fashion at one point.\\\"
He said: \\\"There were even \\\'said books\\\' you could get mail order with lists of the words that can be used instead of said as saying said was discredited during that time. That\\\'s where the name of the trope comes from.\\\"
Alice said:\\\"But Said Bookism itself is a Discredited Trope these days?\\\"
Bob said: \\\"Absolutely.\\\"
He said: \\\"It\\\'s considered redundant, because dialogue should speak for itself without needing fancy tags to convey its meaning and intention.\\\"
Alice said: \\\"That makes sense.\\\"
Bob said: \\\"In the worst cases, the dialogue tags end up repeating what the dialogue itself is telling us.\\\"
Alice said: \\\"Are there any similar tropes?\\\"
Bob said: \\\"There are!\\\"
He said: \\\"It\\\'s not just like Purple Prose, but also sort of like Shlubb And Klump English and Author Vocabulary Calendar.\\\"
Alice said: \\\"So where can I see what it looks like?\\\"
Bob said: \\\"Well, right here...\\\"
Bob said: \\\"Well, it\\\'s a variety of Purple Prose in which the writer goes out of their way to avoid the word said.\\\"
Alice said: \\\"Why would they do this?\\\"
Bob said: \\\"Because, it was the fashion at one point.\\\"
He said: \\\"There were even \\\'said books\\\' you could get mail order with lists of the words that can be used instead of said as saying said was discredited during that time. That\\\'s where the name of the trope comes from.\\\"
Alice said:\\\"But Said Bookism itself is a Discredited Trope these days?\\\"
Bob said: \\\"Absolutely.\\\"
He said: \\\"It\\\'s considered redundant, because dialogue should speak for itself without needing fancy tags to convey its meaning and intention.\\\"
Alice said: \\\"That makes sense.\\\"
Bob said: \\\"In the worst cases, the dialogue tags end up repeating what the dialogue itself is telling us.\\\"
Alice said: \\\"Are there any similar tropes?\\\"
Bob said: \\\"There are!\\\"
He said: \\\"It\\\'s not just like Purple Prose, but also sort of like Shlubb And Klump English and Author Vocabulary Calendar.\\\"
Alice said: \\\"So where can I see what it looks like?\\\"
Bob said: \\\"Well, right here...\\\"
