Familiar or Informal?

Diction: style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words.

This is the definition of diction in which I am going to focus on. Not to be mean I am going to include its other definition, which is: the accent, inflection, intonation, and speech-sound quality manifested by an individual speaker ; enunciation.

I would say that when talking about this, it will go back to register. When reading The Burn Journals by Brent Runyon, I wasn't sure if I thought of his choice of words as familiar or informal. But as I came down to the conclusion it is informal. It might vary, and in some parts of the book it might be familiar, but overall informal. 

"Fuck it , it's fucking useless." (114)

What is quoted above one might think is familiar, and in my opinion it is. This types of thing that appear in the book make me doubt my analysis into. The author of this book, wrote it with such words and sayings that make it more relatable. When I read Jae's blog entry, it got even more confused, and did make me ask myself: If it was meant to be a "journal"why would it be informal, and not just familiar? Well because it is not a journal or a diary, but a book published and sold in bookstores (by this I do not mean the place were I buy the most delicious cookies ever) that everyone has access to. 

If it were to be more familiar, in my opinion it could be a little bit less relatable. Why? 

Well that's a good question, and here I have a good answer. If it was familiar, it would have a lot of slang and other types of words or saying that not all people can understand. That did not make sense, let me rephrase it. It might be relatable, but for the small amount of people that would be able to understand it, if it is informal it is still relatable and appeals to all the people.

The Burn Journals  by Brent Runyon is written in informal register.