[ SECRET POST #2256 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2256 ⌋

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

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[The Most Popular Girls In School]


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[Rust and Bone]


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[My Mad Fat Diary]


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[Sailor Moon]


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[Harvest Moon: A New Beginning]


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[American Horror Story Asylum]


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[Homestuck]


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[DC Comics]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 021 secrets from Secret Submission Post #322.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Writing Help?

[agentcthulhu]

Hm, the way I've seen it done successfully is to have the foreign words or phrases be an important and reoccurring part of the narrative. They can be introduced by the character in dialogue or in the body, it doesn't really matter, I don't think. The meaning of the word or phrase should follow either immediately after or be in the following sentence, or be implied by the text, so the foreign word will add to the text. Otherwise the words and phrases might make the reader feel frustrated instead.

Sorry, I'm tired and I'm not sure if I'm explaining it well. Here are some examples off the top of my head. Hope this helps.

"Don't forget your sugegasa!" my mother yelled out after me.
"Oh! Thank you the reminder!" I said as I put it on and tied the straps in a butterfly pattern under my chin. It was a hot day and my sugegasa would be needed to keep the sun from baking me dry. If it rained, the cone shape of the sugegasa would keep the rain off of my head, too.

My little brother Pierre loved reading. We didn't have any money for books but it didn't stop Pierre from reading whatever he could find, even if he didn't understand it. He had a word of the day that he would proudly spell out for everyone in the family. This was why we called him le petit pwofeser, the little professor.


Eta: If the narrative mentioned a character speaking in a specific language, I would think the character was making a point in speaking a language different from what everyone else was speaking, or that the character knew more than one language. I'd associate a specific setting with a default language rather than a language with a specific setting, if that makes any sense? Like, if my story took place in Germany for example, I'd mention it in the setting so it would imply that my characters would be speaking German unless stated otherwise. People can be speaking German in France or Switzerland or Canada because they're German, but it is less likely for everyone in a story set in Germany to be speaking the same non-German language.

Re: Writing Help?

[(Anonymous)]

OP

Don't worry, I was tired too, but I got what you meant and that's how I'll experiment with it, thanks!