[ SECRET POST #2765 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2765 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Natalie Dormer]


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03.
[Punky Brewster (Soleil Moon Frye)]


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04.
[Interstella 55555]


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05.
[Longmire]


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06.
[Dracula Untold]


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07.
[Transformers Prime]


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08.
[Rik Mayall]


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09.
[Scarlett (Starcraft 2)]


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10.
[Orange is the New Black]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 032 secrets from Secret Submission Post #394.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, I HATE writing accents and reading them. For me, it's enough for a narrator to say that the person has an accept and then continue with diction that matches the narration.

Huckleberry Finn was a goddamn nightmare to read in high school because of this. It took me FOREVER to parse the words and understand the meaning.

Then there's JK Rowling writing Fleur's dialogue. Or Krum's -- it was annoying and distracting.

I don't see why it matters -- people have different preferences when it comes to writing dialogue.

[kaijinscendre]

Yes to Huckleberry Finn. And I was born and raised in the South. It was just like, "Ugh. I am sick of trying to figure out what they are saying."

[cloud_riven]

Oh shit, this reminds me of how I would avoid Hetalia fics where Sweden Mc'M'mbl'r-san was at all a central character.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. While I agree with other comments that word choice and sentence structure might still be modified to better match the "voice" of a character, there's no need to go to so much trouble to make the dialogue "look" like it sounds - or worse, like you think it sounds. Trust your readers to use their imagination and knowledge of the characters instead of making them struggle to even read the story.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't personally have an issue with Huckleberry Finn at all (read it in 5th and 8th grade). I also had been writing dialect in my short stores for a few years, though.

I struggle with dialect that isn't Scottish or Southern. (I could probably handle AAVE, since there's a lot of overlap with Southern.) Most of the time, it's because people have written French/German/Russian accents SO terribly. I don't think it's a wonderful idea to have people write dialect if they're not familiar with the speech patterns.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought OP wasn't referring to syntax so much as "accent."

"She still lives there, she has for a while." vs. "She been living there a while now."

You don't have to write it as, "She bin livin' they whaahl now," just try to get the "ebonic" construction.

(I don't watch the show, nor have quite the same dialect as those two, so that probably came out very wrong for them, but I hope you get the idea.)

Even if you haven't been taught AAVE grammar (yes, it has a real grammar) in school (most English speakers haven't) you can maybe pick up enough from how the characters speak to make them sound like they're speaking their own language.

SA--I miscorrected a sentence

[(Anonymous)]

I thought OP wasn't referring to "accent" so much as syntax.