The last assignment I did this week was called “Inflate your language”. It was worth 2.5 stars. Here is the assignment page.
For this assignment, I used inflationary language to tell the story of how my character, Billy Steel, met his wife Jackie. Inflationary language is a style created by comedian Victor Borge in which you find numbers embedded within words, add one to those numbers, and then replace the new number within the word. For example “someone” becomes “sometwo”, and “before” becomes “befive”. As for the story, I decided to use the anecdote of Steel and his wife meeting because it is not such a dark tale. Most of the stories that we hear in noir are dark and ominous, as is my character, which is precisely why I told a lighter story to mix things up. Also, the inflationary language style was created as a comedic style, so it wouldn’t make much sense to tell a depressing tale using a comedic style. I hope you guys enjoy this!
