From: mumble@nomail.invalid   
      
   On 05/16/2014 08:59 AM, John W Kennedy wrote:   
   > On 2014-05-16 14:45:15 +0000, mumble said:   
   >   
   >> On 05/15/2014 04:19 PM, Brenda Clough wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I can do it -- shift voices between speakers. And vocabulary, and   
   >>> cadence, and slang, yes, it all ccan be done.   
   >>   
   >> You really, really, really, *want* people to read your books, but   
   >> based solely on that, I'd avoid them.   
   >   
   > You'd rather have Frodo and Sam talk just alike? Narnians and   
   > Calormenes? (I suppose "Pygmalion" must be as feeble as last year's   
   > autumn leaves to you.)   
   >   
      
   It's one thing to show the reader that two people (or groups) use   
   different dialects, it's another entirely to force the reader to   
   laboriously translate some made-up dialect and thus break the reader's   
   stride for the sole purpose of showing that "i can do it".   
      
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