Delicious Diction, But Only if You're Eating Your Words

Hemingway uses simple diction and sentence structure throughout the entire novel. I think the reason he does so is that he can get his point across easily and appeal to a wider range of readers. Some of his diction REALLY bugs me, though. When he uses "try and..." all through the novel, I have the urge to hit him. And the commas which, to me, seem terribly misplaced are highly annoying, especially for a grammar buff such as myself, but that's grammar, not diction. Anyway, the reader is able to infer that the novel is set in the early to mid 1900s because certain terms are used which have been replaced today. For instance, people don't "get sore" today; they "get pissed." That term has been around for a while, and Hemingway didn't seem to have enough restriction in his diction to avoid using it on purpose. Also, Bill refers on page 77 to a black boy fighting in Vienna as a "nigger." In the early to mid 1900s, that would have been an accepted term referring to African Americans.