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From the opening chapter of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest:
I creep along the wall quiet as dust in my canvas shoes, but they got special sensitive equipment detects my fear and they all look up, all three at once, eyes glittering out of the black faces like the hard glitter of radio tubes out of the back of an old radio.
Please could you explain conjugation of the verb detects? Why not detecting? Does it mean (that) detects? If so, is such a preposition omission idiomatic?
It is certainly not grammatical English.
I suspect the intention of the author was to replicate the less than entirely literate forms that such an individual might have used.
The addition of two words would make the entire passage grammatical - a have in front of got, and a which in front of detects.
