Talk:Purple prose
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-- How about the word novices instead of newbies? --JdBerry - 10 Sep 2002
-- Done. DGJ - 10 Sep 2002
LeeAnnKorecky - 21 Nov 2002 Added "it is." Deleted a comma. Added a period. Made the last sentence into a sentence.
Fixed the sentence fragment created by the above author's conversion of a predicate into a whole sentence. Likewise removed "it is" in order to preserve the pattern all the other definitions follow. -- DGJ - 13 Jan 2003
I find it interesting that of all the IF games created, only two could be found as an example of purple prose. Surely you can do better. Aurora 18:28, 7 October 2007 (PDT)
- I guess you mean "we" can do better. Well, here are some other games that have been mentioned on r*if as having purple prose: The Ritual of Purification, Pentari, Enter the Dark, Pathfinder, Where Evil Dwells. Probably any Rybread Celsius game. I'm not adding any right now, because I'd rather get more of a consensus. -- cendare 18:54, 7 October 2007 (PDT)
1) This is an age-old phenomenon. The original Adventure and Zork II were prime examples. 2) No, I really did mean "you" (generic plural).
Aurora 04:44, 8 October 2007 (PDT)
- I agree that the Examples section of this page is far from satisfying! I also understand that being listed as one of only two typical examples of bad writing may seem insulting to the authors of these games.
- Anyway, I'm not sure an Examples section is a good idea here; I suspect a consensus is almost impossible, because it's so subjective. "Some have claimed that the following games contain purple prose": "Some"? Maybe (but who, by the way?), but maybe others have claimed they didn't. (And did they talk about the entire games, or just excerpts?)
- This R*IF thread: Prose style in 'Losing Your Grip' is a good example of different tastes about prose. Other links: Emily Short - SPAG Specifics of The Act of Misdirection; Here, someone accuses an excerpt from Metamorphoses of purple prose. I guess Kallisti could be seen as an extreme case of purple prose, although it was intentional. --Eriorg 03:30, 9 October 2007 (PDT)