Eliza Graham - You about???

[VampiresWalkin]

I have a question

I don't want this to come out wrong, but am genuinely curious, and yours is one of the books I have noticed it in - I don't get to harass any of the other authors

Anyway - reading Restitution, and every now and then there are various words spoken in German, mid English. We know they are German and would be speaking German, so why the random words? (Not liebling - that makes sense to me as we don't have one quite like it)

Is it to reinforce the whole language/location thing or is there some fancy reason that I don't know?

I don't want this to read like a criticism, which is how it is sounding in my head when I read it back , tis just me over thinking!

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Thanks!

Pleeeeeeeeeease?

having seen you about today.

(and intrigued as to where knickers went... she only bumped for me...)

Maybe it's to give the prose some je ne sais quoi?

I am here! (Hier bin Ich...?)I put more words and phrases in German originally but at various stages of the editorial/critique process they were excised because it was thought they wouldn't be understood or were making things unnecessarily complicated. Or just looked pretentious . It's a hard balance--trying to get the 'feel' of people speaking in another language. Liebling is (I think) easy to understand in context, for instance. But some of the other 'German stuff' I had in there was deemed confusing or unnecessary.

I imagine that answer is probably as clear as mud!

I enjoyed it anyway- with or without German words!

Ich freue mich darueber! (I think that's what I mean--I'm so pleased.)

Oooooooooooooooh thank you

Sorry I came to this late, btw, it has been mad here.

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