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This may be an ideological difference...
Feb. 6th, 2012 07:57 pmA question for writers and readers: Do you find it odd when a first person narrator describes his or her own facial expressions?
I keep running into people who do, and I find *this* very odd. I was trained as a kid in the parents commenting on what expression you're making method ("If you keep pouting like that, a little bird might come and perch on your lip."* or "Oh look at that grin!") and probably learned some expressions (scowling, for instance) better by what they felt like than what they looked like. This may or may not still be true, but I am definitely able to describe my own facial expressions, and have been known to do so by way of emotional shorthand.
I can't possibly be the only one who thinks this way, can I?
ETA- by "describe" I don't mean in great detail, just "I smiled," or "that made me frown," &ct.
*Why this is a bad thing, I'm not sure; in retrospect the "your face might stick like that" seems a much more credible threat. Perhaps it's mostly intended to make cross children smile?
I keep running into people who do, and I find *this* very odd. I was trained as a kid in the parents commenting on what expression you're making method ("If you keep pouting like that, a little bird might come and perch on your lip."* or "Oh look at that grin!") and probably learned some expressions (scowling, for instance) better by what they felt like than what they looked like. This may or may not still be true, but I am definitely able to describe my own facial expressions, and have been known to do so by way of emotional shorthand.
I can't possibly be the only one who thinks this way, can I?
ETA- by "describe" I don't mean in great detail, just "I smiled," or "that made me frown," &ct.
*Why this is a bad thing, I'm not sure; in retrospect the "your face might stick like that" seems a much more credible threat. Perhaps it's mostly intended to make cross children smile?