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I think the key here is that you know what it would feel like to try to speak with these sentences in mind, but you don't know what it would actually sound like.

Most people, in speaking, do not speak in complete sentences. David Mamet is a master of portraying realistic dialogue on page.

But most people, in reading well written, properly grammatical text, don't realize it is not at all how they would speak.

So the answer is to not mix the two. Don't try to write as it would sound and write grammatically at the same time. The disparity between the two is jarring.

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