[ SECRET POST #3491 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3491 ⌋

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

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02. [repeat]


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[A Game of Thrones, Lyanna Mormont]


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04.
[Taylor Swift]


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[Spongebob Squarepants]


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[old French politics, RPS]


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[Sherlock Holmes, "The Final Problem”]


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(Camille Bordey and Richard Poole, Death in Paradise)


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[Futurama]


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[Bill Skarsgård at Pennywise in the new remake of It]










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Comments

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[dancing_clown]

I hate B-but in writing. HATE. IT.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[(Anonymous)]

YES.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[dancing_clown]

It's okay in fic, where it could be a stutter in dialogue, but if I did right here? WHY? THERE'S NO NEED.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[sarillia]

How would you prefer to see a stutter written?

I'm writing a character with a stutter now. I have a friend who stutters who doesn't tend to do that b-b-but thing because he has bad anxiety and tries to avoid talking too much and tends to have long pauses before he speaks while he gets a handle on what he's going to say. But my character has more confidence and is more willing to just say what's on her mind, which would result in the b-b-but thing people think of more often.

I've been at a bit of a loss as to how to write her conversations because I know people find that annoying, but it also feels awkward to have people comment on how she's talking when it looks exactly the same as anyone else's dialogue.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[dancing_clown]

In dialogue it's not bad, but maybe try the whole word, and sometimes mix it up by acknowledging it in the narrative (Jane stumbled over the word, for example).

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[sarillia]

That's what I've been trying to do but I'm not that confident in judging the line where most people will find it too annoying. I worry too much.

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[diet_poison]

Personally I think it's fine for dialogue. But I am not one of the people who is annoyed by it in general either, so idk...

Re: Slang that is getting on my nerves

[tabaqui]

I think just use it in dialogue. To have it in the prose bit would be odd, but if you're actually typing out conversation, then 'But witches are g-good!' Tara said is fine. I mean, if a characters stutters, you can mention it, but unless they're really firmly in the mind of the reader, nobody is going to remember that they *do*, unless there's some indication of that in the dialogue, and 'Tara stuttered' every other line is kind of...not good.