On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 05:45:36 -0700, Joy wrote: >I'm sort of writing a fantasy story -- at one point a sixteen-year-old witch >enters a sewing room filled with student wisewomen. One of the girls >exclaims "What a groovy gown!" (It's a perma-press print, very exotic in >fantasyland.) > >But of course she can't say groovy or swelligant or rad or far out. And >every time I try a synonym for something teenagers really say, it's either >something already in use or something that doesn't sound teenagery at all. > >Maybe I'll spell "awesome" phonetically and say she picked it up from the >witch. Or have her call it the witch-beast's jama suit and hope no reader >is old enough to recognize it.
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