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Originally Posted by Wiglaf  Personally, I don't like it when they mangle the writing to convey a dialect. I'd stick with an occaissional y'all, contractions, and maybe a few colloquialisms. For South Missouri, for example, it would be you all, crick(for creek), nekkid(ain't got no clothes on), and Missoura. Spelling every word phoenetically is too much. It actually makes the dialog hard to comprehend. |
Hmm a good point. I want it to be readable, but i also want readers to understand that the characters aren't speaking as normally as the others. So how much would you consider to be 'too much'?