Timeline for Is it correct to use verbs like "sighed" and "laughed" as dialogue tags?
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| Nov 12, 2013 at 20:11 | comment | added | dmm | Probably different languages would be more/less tolerant of this. In German, you often don't get the main verb until the end of a long sentence. So Germans might be fine with: {"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my entire seventy-three years of living," she laughed.} But in English it's jarring. | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 0:49 | history | answered | Dale Hartley Emery | CC BY-SA 3.0 |