[ SECRET POST #2082 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2082 ⌋

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

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[Fate/Zero]


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05. [SPOILERS for Journey Into Mystery/Everything Burns]



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06. [SPOILERS for Avengers]



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07. [SPOILERS for Sweeney Todd]



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09. [WARNING for depression/suicide]

[Wilby Wonderful (2004)]


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10. [WARNING for abuse]

[True Blood]


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11. [WARNING for rape]



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12. [WARNING for suicide/self-harm]

[Alex Gaskarth/All Time Low]


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13. [WARNING for abuse]



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14. [WARNING for abuse/bullying]



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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #297.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ],.
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[truxillogical]

Eh, people more studied on the subject than I am have written pretty good essays about how socially problematic phonetically rendering accents can be. In fact, Gail Simone, I think, had a pretty good one a while back.

In the case of MLP, I wouldn't call it problematic. I would probably call it bad writing. It's one thing to drop the "g" at the end of a word and replace it with an apostrophe, as I'll be demonstratin' here. It's anothah thang entirely ta fah-netickally wraht th' whole durn speech, Ah think.

If you're not Brian Jaques writing impossible-to-understand moles in a way that you have successfully done for years, I'd advise against it because it makes for harder to read dialogue, and it's much sloppier than it needs to be. An accent really can be much more successfully rendered with word choices and sentence structure. And replacing "I" with "Ah" (the most common thing I see) seems like a good idea in theory--lots of Southerners, myself included, do talk like that. But visually, it doesn't work so well, and it's just not necessary. If you're writing Applejack, people know what her accent sounds like; I imagine they'd be more interested in whether or not you can write dialogue that sounds like something she'd say.

And that's my way-too-much-thought-given (any) answer.

[(Anonymous)]

This, mostly.

When it comes to phonically doing accents, as often as not even it's something that has a fairly standard spelling ['Ah' instead of 'I' for a southern accent for example] then even if the reader spells it out, it's probably not going to actually sound like what the accent sounds like, for various reasons.

It's also something that even most of the pro writers can't pull off.

[simplyirenic]

Not gonna lie, I love me some Brian Jacques, but as a kid it took me about three books before I could even start understanding molespeech.

Bo urr aye.

[(Anonymous)]

It was two books for me. They were one of the reasons why I kept reading book after book. I wanted to figure out molespeech and shrewspeak!

RIP BJ ;_;