From: mbottorff@lshelby.com   
      
   Daniel S. Goodman  wrote:   
      
   >   
   > My amendment to your advice:  If possible, have someone who speaks that   
   > particular version of a language look over your dialog.   
      
   Nice trick when my book is set in a secondary world.   
      
   Nobody speaks this language except for the characters in question.   
   Not even me, and I invented it.  :)   
      
      
   But maybe I can do this when I'm working in my alternate history world.   
      
   Although my husband seems to be voting for the story set in Ohio, where   
   people will mostly be speaking English (how boring!), to be next one I   
   write in that world,  rather than the one set in Germany or the one set   
   in Czechoslovakia.   
      
   ...Or even, for that matter, the one set in England.  (Which I want to   
   be a graphic novel, and for which I already have a rough draft of the   
   script. I tried to convince him we could try kickstarter the cost of an   
   artist for it, but he seemed unconvinced.)   
      
      
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