From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   Michelle Bottorff wrote:   
   > William Vetter  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Michelle Bottorff wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> "In the realm of the sky they walk, and on the mighty lion and fearsome   
   >>> leapard   
   >>   
   >> Is this spelling intentional?   
   >   
   > Nope.  I did say it was rough-draft quality.  Sorry!   
   >   
   >   
   >> I ask because other people are talking about spellings that supposedly   
   >> express English dialects.   
   >   
   > I'm not attempting to duplicate any particular English dialect, and I   
   > hadn't planned to use variant spellings.   
      
   Once upon a time, I was involved in a writers' workshop, and I read a   
   guy's manuscript that was about mummers who visit an isolated town in   
   postapocalyptic Kentucky.  (Kentucky has itinerant mummers, it would   
   seem.)  I wrote a somewhat formal critique for this fellow, and I   
   collected a sentence out of his ms. that was something like   
   "Out of the pan and into the far."   
   I told him that he spelled _fire_ wrong.  He wrote back to me and said   
   this was how people spoke it in rural Kentucky.  I don't recall his   
   circumstance, but he seemed to have some sort of personal experience.   
      
   The moral of this story is...   
   Maybe I'm fucking stupid   
   or   
   maybe if you only do it a couple times in a manuscript, it's impossible   
   for the reader to tell.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)