From: dsgood@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, July 11, 2015 at 7:15:35 PM UTC-5, Michelle Bottorff wrote:   
   > 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.  :)   
      
   I did say "If possible."   
      
   I'm having problems with future English, and I don't know the right time   
   travelers.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   Is it Czechoslovakia in that world?  In ours, it's now two countries.   
      
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