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You make an exception for dialogue, Tim (which I agree with), but what do you say when the narrator has a voice. Take a first-person narrative, for example? Don't the same considerations for dialogue also apply to a first person narrator? Or even a third person narrative with a demonstrable narrator whose voice comes through in the telling of the story?
Absolutely! In the first person we're going to be deep within the POV most likely... That being the case, I'd want internal thought to mimic the way people really think, or at least that person.
Same would be true with a strong narrative voice. If that voice has a personality, and that voice speaks in such a way, with consistency, then by all means, yes.
I was hoping to steer the conversation back to the words and their use in different styles (like you just did...thank you) and away from the "Don't tell me how to write" sentiment that often can derail these types of debates.