Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2004

Hello:

Wrt "swoll" instead of "swollen" (and perhaps the lack of "During"
right at the beginning), is this a transcript of colloquial and
perhaps uneducated speach?
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The long drive to the hospital with his one eye SWOLL shut and the
face around it just getting bigger and bigger with every vein inside
broken and bleeding under the skin, Shane didn't say a word.
[Chuck Palaniuk, Invisible Monsters, Ch. 12, p. 134]
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The POV is that of a girl with not much interest in academic matters:-)

Thanks,
Marius Hancu