# "Murder!" She said.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder-she-said/433575>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 15, 2008, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder-she-said/433575 "2008-01-15T04:25:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder-she-said/433575/61 "2008-01-17T00:26:48Z")

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[QUOTE=kittenblue]  
I sometimes read a series of books where the one character always “wails”. “Put that down,” she wailed. "I have no idea, " she wailed. Just once I wish the damn character would just “say” something.  
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in _Stirling’s Dies the Fire_ trilogy, every character of his snorts. whether in derision, happiness, or misery. someone snorts. i mostly enjoy the book but, really.

“Blessed Be!” she snorted.

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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/murder-she-said/433575/62 "2008-01-17T03:26:52Z")

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Not dialogue, but in Steven Erikson’s Malazan books, no one ever walks. They stride. Or they strode. Once somebody had even stridden. Is that a word?

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