From: john.w.kennedy@gmail.com
On 2015-07-14 21:26:51 +0000, Michelle Bottorff said:
> William Vetter wrote:
>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> "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 think it's pretty silly to expect every reader of English everywhere
> will a) be familiar with a Kentucky dialect, and would therefore b)
> recognize that far was therefore not a typo for fire.
>
> But at the same time, not being very good at figuring out what the
> reader won't know is one of my biggest weaknesses, so I feel like I'm
> the pot calling the kettle black when i say that.
>
>
> Out of curiousity...
>
> Would seein' words like bein', doin' and hearin' throw you? :)
>
> I used those back in the second and third books I wrote. Although I've
> mostly avoided phonetic spelling since then (I'm currently on book 14),
> I haven't given up on someday revisiting those two books.
>
> I don't currently see any reason for editing those out. I don't think
> they're particularly confusing or difficult to read.
>
> But I read a fair number of Westerns growing up, so I might be biased.
> :)
And they were all over old Western comics.
--
John W Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford"
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