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Diminutive.
Really, i find this word nearly as horrifying in relation to books as i do the word Prologue. The reason for the near omniscient loathe i have for those words is that they are usually used in such a bad way as to drag down the quality of everything around them. In this case we have an author who's novel has been consistent in its use of plane language, very few words more than five to seven letters, and none you wouldn't expect you nine or ten year old grade level reader to breeze through. Its therefore jarring to have a character who hasn't said or thought a single polysyllabic use this word four or five times in the space of a chapter or two.
BAD!
Really, i find this word nearly as horrifying in relation to books as i do the word Prologue. The reason for the near omniscient loathe i have for those words is that they are usually used in such a bad way as to drag down the quality of everything around them. In this case we have an author who's novel has been consistent in its use of plane language, very few words more than five to seven letters, and none you wouldn't expect you nine or ten year old grade level reader to breeze through. Its therefore jarring to have a character who hasn't said or thought a single polysyllabic use this word four or five times in the space of a chapter or two.
BAD!
